The Floor of the Basement
. . . is the Roof of Hell. Which is the title to a story I’ve got in the January 2020 Nightmare Magazine.
is the author of 23 or 25 or so books, +300 stories, some comic books, and all this stuff here. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, and has a few broken-down old trucks, one PhD, and way too many bootssearch
language
interviews
podcasts, vid
- Al Jazeera
- BatSegundo
- Bookbar (reading)
- Booked 2011
- Booked early 2014
- Booked later 2014
- Brainwaves (Halloween)
- Chewing the Scenery
- CU on the Air
- Friday the 13th
- Georgetown
- Ghoulish (slashers)
- Good Thunder
- Harper Collins
- HuffPost Live
- IAIA
- JLF 17
- KCOL (radio)
- Ladies of Fright
- Literary Disco
- Locecraft eZine
- LotF: Werewolves
- Machine Readable
- Misnomer
- More on Zombies
- On Being Scared
- On Frankenstein
- on Zombies
- Pixel Project
- Rare Bird Lit
- Report from Santa Fe
- SF Signal
- Skiffy & Fanty (horror)
- Skiffy & Fanty (spotlight)
- Slasher talk
- Spooklights
- State of the Weird
- StokerCon 2017
- The Narrators
- Thirteen
- This is Horror (Mongrels 1)
- This is Horror (Mongrels 2)
- This is Horror 1
- This is Horror 2
- Thrill Seekers
- TV
- Unnerving
- Unnerving 2
- Why Horror Matters (panel)
- Wolfen
- Writing Advice x 20
- Zombie News (TV)
stories
- 12 Arrows
- Abducted
- All in Good Fun
- Animals I've Known
- Bats
- Bearded Lady
- Beginning
- Billy Hanson
- Boy Who Cried Wolf
- Brushdogs (dif't audio)
- Brushdogs (w/ audio)
- Captain's Lament
- Chapter Six
- Chicken
- CloseEncounters
- Darkest Part
- Dead Are Not
- Dear Final Girls
- Deathtrap Whirlpool
- Dedication
- Deviants
- Doc's Story (excerpt)
- Don't Look Now
- Easy Money
- Every Action
- Evolution
- Exodus
- Faberge*
- Floor of Basement
- Fresh Cut
- Girls
- God of Low Things
- God of Low Things*
- Hamsters…
- How to Know You're a Killer
- Koalas
- Lazarus Complex*
- Lonegan's Luck (excerpt)
- Love is a Cavity*
- ManCrossTime
- Midnight Caller
- ModernLove
- Moonboys
- Neither Heads nor Tails
- Nightfall
- No Takebacks
- Not So Sure
- Old Meat
- Piano Thief
- Prisoner at 36
- Raphael
- Rising Star
- RocketMan
- Scars (excerpt)
- Sea of Intranquility
- Second Chances*
- Silent Game
- Slasher Vic
- SnowMonsters
- So Perfect*
- Sociopath Cry*
- Spindly Man
- Submitted for Approval
- Sula Prime
- Tenderizer (excerpt)
- The Dead Are Not
- The Night Cyclist
- Till Morning
- Twin Wells
- Universal Horror
- Wages
- Wallace Maneuver
- When Swords …
- Wolf Island
- Xebico
- Zombie Sharks
not stories
- 10 Halloween Books
- 10 Horror Stories
- 10 P.I. Skills
- 10 truths
- 13 Weeks
- 1st Sale
- 20 Best Horror
- 20bks @ HuffPo
- 2nd POV @ HTMLgiant
- 3 Horror Novels
- 5 Scary Books
- 7 Things (on writing)
- As I Lay Dying
- Battle of the Books
- Blue Velvet Monster
- Cabin in the Woods
- Digging up Bones
- Direct-Address Commas
- Dolls
- How to Write a Story
- I'll be Back: on remakes
- Jaws
- Last Werewolf
- Letter to…
- Library LoveFest
- Murder-happy Characters
- Not a Super Power
- Novelist Guest Blog
- Odd Jobs
- OK/Okay
- On Exodus
- On Freedom
- On Genre
- On Horror
- On Reading
- On Water
- Pinocchio Complex
- Secret Wars
- SF Songs
- State of the Slasher Address
- State of the Slasher Address 2
- Statements of Intent
- Texas Monthly
- The Dream Police
- Truth About Yoda
- Unrevised
- Video Night (bk rvw)
- Weird Flowchart
- Why Horror Now?
- Why I Write
- Writing Rituals