BACK AROUND 1983, my friend Erica, went away to college at University of Illinois and sent me back some tapes of cool bands she discovered there. One of them was labeled Psychedelic Furs Talk Talk Talk with the flipside being, what I thought for a long time was, US October….
ON AUGUST 23, 2021, I traded in my 40th anniversary gray 2004 Mustang Convertible – HAUNTER – for a 2020 55th anniversary black Mustang Convertible. This was a difficult goodbye; the original HAUNTER has been with me 16.5 years — since before my son Shaun was born! Almost 1/3 of…
IT WAS THE BEST! That’s really true of Flashback Weekend 2021 in so many ways.  It was a whirlwind of a weekend, and hands-down the best horror con I’ve had an author booth at over the past 10 years on multiple levels. After a two-year hiatus thanks to COVID, the…
THE BIG NEWS FOR THIS MONTH is that my 13th novel Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds has been put up for pre-sale on Amazon, B&N, Kobo etc. and the cover revealed. Click on the cover image to see a larger version! The release date for the book is the numerically…
MY 11TH NOVEL, the erotic horror tale The Devil’s Equinox, is on sale this week for just 99 cents on all ebook stores! Plus, it will be featured in Bookbub’s horror newsletters in the US, UK, Canada and Australia on May 1st. This is not your “ordinary sexy scary 99 cent…
I’M LISTENING NOW TO “Rise Again,” a track from Wumpscut. It opens a mix CD that Dave Barnett gave me a long time ago. Dave introduced me to a lot of cool club music over the years, from Wumpscut to Covenant to Goldfrapp to Assemblage 23. Dave was a well-known…
THE RECEPTION FOR Voodoo Heart since it came out in October 2020 has been gratifying, to say the least! It started with a great review from BookList, published by the American Library Association, and has ended up on several “best of” lists since. It’s gotten some great reviews on GoodReads…
NORMALLY, AT THIS TIME on New Years morning (it’s 1 a.m., an hour after the ball dropped as I start to write this), I pull out my notebook or keyboard and reflect upon the victories of the past year. I relive all of the things that happened that I know…
THIS WEEK, TWO OF my horror novels — and my special Christmas book — are all on sale on Amazon for just 99 cents. Plus… my special Christmas page offers music and Christmas computer wallpaper / Zoom background! The Family Tree: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N4MCONU NightWhere : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NARGS4E/ Christmas Tales is also on…
A countdown to Halloween featuring 10 great Giallo films from the 1970s, featuring some of the directors and actresses who made the genre famous: Dario Argento, Sergio Martino, Umberto Lenzi and Edwige Fenech, Barbara Bouchet, Anita Strindberg and Erika Blanc.
