There’s a nasty little hole in the ground out in the backwoods. In the days of the pox, the community that sprung up around it ended up sacrificing a life to it, and all their sickness was subsequently washed away. So, now The Pit will lie dormant for a while, sometimes a long while, but […]
Read more "You See Through Its Eye: Jug Face"In the five or so years between Tiger Claws (1990) and Tiger Claws II (1995), Jalal Merhi produced quite a few pictures. One of these was a post-apocalyptic science fictioner about a world squeezed by ecological disaster, a disparity between the wealthy who live underground and the dirty, criminal, irradiated poor on the surface. Unto […]
Read more "Punching and Kicking to Save the World: TC 2000"The art of writing is a challenge on the best of days, mixing up genres only adds to the complexity. Some have a challenging time writing without astray from facts and heavy duty research. For others, fiction flows a lot more smoothly than trying to stick to the verifiable truth. The latter appears to be […]
Read more "Because They’d Been Just As Stupid As I Was Being: Stephen Graham Jones’ Growing Up Dead In Texas"When her court case is overturned due to lack of evidence, Gaily Morton (Clare Wren) sees no safety for her future. Daniel Emerson (Michael Cerveris) and his cronies Oscar (Paul Lieber), Norman (Brian Backer), Tobby (Scott Burkholder), and Craig (John J. York) sexually assaulted her and walked; they are powerful men, and she knows they […]
Read more "The Only Safe Place: Steel and Lace"My story , “Taking Possession” appears in The Dire Circle, an anthology from D&T Publishing. This was a neat concept, stories written about the Black Zodiac. Sure, that phrase might right some bells for folks who recall the remake of Thir13en Ghosts (2001), but this is not an homage anthology to that picture’s interpretation. Instead, […]
Read more "“Taking Possession” appears in The Dire Circle"Young, blindfolded Mary (Stefanie Scott) must endure interrogation. First she must recite the Lord’s Prayer at the point of rifles, she succeeds at this challenge; however, her trial has just begun. Death of a little known variety has come to the village and Mary knows something about it. Also, a small book with some rather […]
Read more "Fear and Weakness Keep Us Here, Not Devotion: The Last Thing Mary Saw"Detectives Tarek Richards (Jalal Merhi) and Linda Masterson (Cynthia Rothrock) are once more partner in New York as Tiger Claws III (2000) opens. We kick off with a bit of banter, Masterson dressed nice because she thought she was promised an outing with steak but sitting in a car instead on a stakeout outside a […]
Read more "Third Time’s A Charm: Tiger Claws III"Eve Springer has left New York and come to Ghent, Belgium for a chance to learn at the prestigious Royal Conservatory (aka the Eyrie), and her head is stuffed up with dreams and opportunity. However, she arrives to tragic news. A promising piano student has been murdered on school grounds, the killer and the motive […]
Read more "Live By the Piano, Die By The Piano: John Everson’s Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds"A killer is loose and using one of the strangest weapons imaginable. After smashing victims on the head with a hammer or similar heavy object, dazing and rendering them incapable of escape, the killer reveals the pièce de résistance: the Noose-O-Matic. First, slip a line of wire around their head until it sits over the […]
Read more "I Only Murder When It Rains: Trauma (1993)"My short story, “The Uncut Hair of Graves,” appears in the Dark Nature anthology from Macabre Ladies Publishing. Eco-horror books have long ranked highly among my favorite works. The Sheep Look Up from John Brunner, The Bridge from John Skipp & Craig Spector, and anthologies like The Earth Strikes Back (ed. Richard Chizmar) have caught […]
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