Review – Necromancer’s House

Christopher Buehlman weaves together some truly fascinating mythology with the gritty reality of a “modern” warlock to create a downbeat story of love, loss, addiction and magic. I love the concept of a modern-day set of wizards who use materials at hand...
Masters of Disguise: Women Who Lived as Men

Masters of Disguise: Women Who Lived as Men

My novel SINFUL FOLK is told by a brave and relentless woman, who has lived as a man for over a decade in the Middle Ages. It’s interesting to me that some readers and reviewers have pointed out that they’ve found it a little unbelievable that a woman could live...

All Hallows Read

 So what is All Hallow’s Read? All Hallow’s Read is a Hallowe’en tradition. It’s simply that in the week of Hallowe’en, or on the night itself, you give someone a scary book.   Scholars have traced its origins as far back as this blog post. Is this instead of...
Our Place in the Universe: Get Perspective

Our Place in the Universe: Get Perspective

Everything is relative. You don’t need to be Einstein to understand that. A human is as big to an ant as a building may be to him. However, the world always seems such a huge place; so many countries, cities, forests, oceans, lakes, icebergs. So many animals and...

October writing fun… pre-order “Sanctuary”

For the month of October, my alter-ego Nicholas Hallum (who writes horror and strange horror-inflected SF) created a chilling  tale designed to keep you up at night. This is also my first experiment with Kindle PRE-ORDER. The NEW 20-page story “SANCTUARY”...

Twelve Terrifying Two Sentence Horror Stories

I found a thread on Reddit that asked this question: “What is the best horror story you can come up with in two sentences?” I posted the best ones I found, as well as one more scary tale I created on my own. See if you can figure out which one is mine! With Halloween...