Bacon Review

I know — best journal title ever, right? My “Neither Heads Nor Tails” is up there now.

Also, thanks to a heads-up from Gordon Highland, I just clicked through all the story links over to the right, here. Turns out a few of them were dead:

  • “The Complete Absence of Cats is Another Definition for Silence,” from Literal Latte (though I think I ran it through BOMB or somewhere as well — some B-place, anyway).
  • the title story from Bleed Into Me, th
Continue Reading Bacon Review

Chizine on Del Rio

Had somehow missed this. very cool review at Chizine, from/by Chris Hallock.…

Continue Reading Chizine on Del Rio

The Wheelman Cometh


Man, went into Drive fully prepared for Steve McQueen to be powershifting through the city, fully psyched for that chase scene from Ronin to get dilated out to ninety minutes, was ready for some Gone in 60 Seconds (the remake) fun, so long as it didn’t get as goofy as The Fast and the Furious(es) or xXx. To Drive’s credit, too, it never even approaches that level of stunt-ridiculousness. But still, it’s called “Drive,” right? An imperative sentence, not just a description. I mea…

Continue Reading The Wheelman Cometh

Pics from the wild

first is a bookstore window here in Boulder (Innisfree), second a friend shot to me from Virginia, I think.…

Continue Reading Pics from the wild

Ones That Got Away: e-vailable

at Amazon, B&N, maybe other places I don’t know to look.

Continue Reading Ones That Got Away: e-vailable

The Floating Dead

A while back I was part of the cattle call for what became this article, and just found myself looking this email up as a student was coming to my office to talk about ghosts. So I figured it’d be good if I could see again what I think about them (I know nothing until I write it down, and then, because it’s written down, I don’t need to try to remember it). Anyway, couple of friends — Laird Barron, Paul Tremblay — got in the article, so all’s good an

Continue Reading The Floating Dead

Couple of Anthologies

I’ve got stuff showing up in: Amazing Stories of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and And IDW’s Zombies vs. Robots. And Creatures! is already orderable.

fsm

Continue Reading Couple of Anthologies

Fantasy Matters

My “I Was Genre When Genre Wasn’t Cool” (another Barbara Mandrell ode) is up at the very cool Fantasy Matters.

also, I’m reading on the Hill here in Boulder tonight, at Innisfree.…

Continue Reading Fantasy Matters

Bibliobabes

A cool write-up of The Ones That Got Away over at Bibliobabes.

bbabes

Continue Reading Bibliobabes

Ding-Dong, You’re Dead

So what if the rats of NIMH got a taste for human flesh? Or, not flesh, exactly, but I don’t want to give anything away. In the way of hints, though, how about: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark doesn’t not have something to do with Darkness Falls. Where it separates itself, though, is quality. No, this isn’t quite The Orphanage, and it’s a different genre than Pan’s Labyrinth, and we’ve all seen the 1973 original, know that The Gate might have borrowed a thing or two from it (in the best poss…

Continue Reading Ding-Dong, You’re Dead