For your next movie night, rent:
From Hell it Came (Milner, 1957)
The Grandmother (Lynch, 1970)
Little Otik (Swankmajer, 2000)
Archive for July, 2006:
Monstrous Trees
Help Yourself to a Cemetery Dance
| Cemetery Dance magazine issue #55 has just been published and will soon be delivered to subscribers and a magazine rack near you. It features a story I co-wrote with Mark McLaughlin, called “Help Yourself” — a surreal and humorous tale about a very strange ‘self-help’ bookstore that preys on its visitor’s self-esteem. Artist Keith Minnion’s great illustration for the story is viewable on his website. You can order a copy of the magazine from the Cemetery Dance website; check out the book, Poe’s Lighthouse, while you’re there! |  |
Desecrating the Storybook Forest
I had a great time in Morgantown, WV, last weekend for a fiction reading alongside Alyssa Sturgill (author of the FANTASTICALLY sick and surreal book of short-shorts, Spider Pie). We commandeered the stage in the children’s book section of their Barnes and Noble bookstore, to read our dark fiction to a good-natured audience. Fantasy writer Andy Duncan was in attendance and gives a full and funny report in the article on his weblog, “Horror in the 100-Aker Wood”, with more photos. So do Jason & Heidi Ruby Miller, authors of the great guidebook, Pennsylvania Camping, and the publishers who sponsored this event, Raw Dog Screaming Press.
[Snapshot above is courtesy of photographer Bruce Siskawicz.]
LICKER
| My next book, LICKER, is now available for preorder from Shocklines.com for just $10.
To be published in a limited edition of 150 paperback copies by Novello Publishers, LICKER is a comedic horror novelette about a boy who is having some difficulties controlling his tongue…and the growths that are forming on it…and the weird people at the carnival who are compelled to want a piece of it.
Here’s what others have to say… Summer AppearancesSat. July 8th, 11 am 
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