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Stoker Interview and WHC 2007 Report

This year’s Bram Stoker Award ceremony was held last weekend in Toronto, concurrent with World Horror Convention. Winners included Stephen King, John Skipp, Lisa Morton, Gary Braunbeck, Jonathan Maberry and Kim Paffenroth. I was on hand to present the poetry award along with Don Hutchison to Bruce Boston for his winning poetry collection, Shades Fantastic.

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The Mysterious Faces

Just a little fridge magnet frivolity. It means nuhthink!

Grimoire Grimaces


Even Zombies Love Play Dead

Happy Halloween!
This fantastic photo is taken from a break on the set of Hell on Earth, a zombie film in production by Ted Bohus at Horror Biz Films. The artist behind the special “Grim Grimoire” edition of Play Dead is also a prop artist for this film (also playing a zombie), which will feature one [...]

The Dentist on Halloween


A Good Enough Box


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Left Behind

This collage appears in Eye Contact, the literary magazine I advise at Seton Hill University where I teach. The theme for this particular issue of the magazine was “truth.” I clipped words and phrases out of Weekly World News; when I began, I thought I’d build a collage of freaky and bizarre headlines, but I [...]

Books for Bunnies


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