Oct 7, 2019 | Current Ned Note, Horror, Past Notes
“October Country . . . that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and mid-nights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars,...
Dec 9, 2018 | Horror, On Writing, Past Notes
Read below for this subscriber-only excerpt from the forthcoming Wilderness of Mirrors by Nicholas Hallum Download PDF Version here An excerpt from the novel Wilderness of Mirrors by Nicholas Hallum DECEMBER 2001 IRAQI DESERT SKYRISE SECURE OPERATION The...
Oct 19, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Horror
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...
May 15, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Horror, On Writing
Last week, I picked up a book that’s been on my shelf for a long time. This was Different Seasons by Stephen King. This book is a collection of four novellas, and was his first publication that reached outside of the horror genre. The book includes the novellas Apt...
Feb 28, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Horror, On Writing, Past Notes
On this day, I’m celebrating the birthday of Tim Powers, SFF writer extraordinaire. February 29, 1952 I was on a bus in Seattle when I first read a book by Tim Powers. I’d picked up a ratty paperback of Expiration Date in some used bookstore’s...
Jan 17, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Horror, On Writing, Past Notes
LAST CALL and HOUSE WITH THE CLOCK IN ITS WALLS Tim Powers and John Bellairs Published on John Bellairs Birthday – January 17, 1938! In my spies+sorcery novel Wilderness of Mirrors, I’m trying to write a grounded fantasy that builds on known facts about the Cold...
