Delilah S. Dawson has quietly, stealthily, become one of my favorite writers. Whether writing as herself or Lila Bowen, she delivers fantasy, science fiction, and horror with equal aplomb. No matte…

Look, I know how good Daniel Kraus is. I’ve been a fan since Rotters, and Whalefall was one of my favorite reads last year. I’m also aware that Angel Down won the Pulitzer. And not that…

Axes fell and swords swung, severing heads, hacking limbs, cleaving bodies in two. The dogs worked in concert, chasing down fleeing men, ripping out throats. 1761—Karl Ottweiler encounters the berserk...

Well, shit. My last read before this was In the Devil Wind, the final Sandman Slim novel from Richard Kadrey. And now comes Petrified Dreams, the final Hap & Leonard novel. Two of my favorite s…

Man, this is bittersweet. Richard Kadrey has announced that In the Devil Wind, the 13th novel in the Sandman Slim saga, will be the last. I’ve been a fan of the Sandman Slim novels since the …

Josh Malerman is on a roll. His last novel, Incidents Around the House, was a horror tour de force—harrowing, heartbreaking, and impossible to forget. And if you’re one of the millions of fol…

Obsession is one of my favorite movies of the year, with an Oscar-worthy performance from Inde Navarrette. I knew when I walked out of the theater that I was going to draw something in honor of the…

In the interests of full disclosure, I have a story in this anthology. I always have second thoughts about reviewing a book that I’m a part of, but this is such a solid collection of excellen…

My son and I were lucky enough to meet Meg Elison at the Worldcon in Chicago a couple years back. She was a panel guest, and we were both impressed by her fierce intelligence and humor. I happily g…

Tenebrous Press, the small but mighty publishing house that’s responsible for this collection, has a wonderful mission statement that begins like this: To define, highlight, and celebrate the…

We have a lot of art shows for vendors here in Northeast Ohio, but I’ve learned by trial and error which ones work best for my style and subject matter. I’ve settled on Oddmall, a colle…

My son and I were lucky enough to attend Chicon 8, the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, in Chicago in 2022. We had a wonderful time, and perhaps the high point was being there for the awardin…

I’m proud to be a part of this forthcoming anthology from Dead Fox Publishing. It Ends with Her is a horror anthology of sapphic tales of love and woe, yearning and tragedy, and the unending …

When my son Eric got a 3D printer, I immediately wondered if it was possible to created 3D sculptures based on my original artwork. Eric was more than game to try. I played around with several apps…

If Sarah Gailey wasn’t so damn good at what they do, they’d be downright annoying. Why do I say that? Glad you asked! My point is, Gailey’s literary output, from American Hippo to…

I’m going to guess that most readers discovered the singular talent that is C.J. Leede when they read Maeve Fly, her audacious, blood-soaked debut horror novel that put a feminine twist on Am…

I had a request for a pirate fox drawing, and I’m really happy with the result. Done on an iPad using an Apple Pencil and Procreate. You can find it in my shop here:

I’m excited to have an illustration in Twisted Trysts, a spicy monster horror anthology from Dead Fox Publishing. My illustration is titled Tentacle Satisfaction, and I think it fits the them…

Let’s start this review with a somewhat embarrassing confession: I finished reading King Sorrow on an airplane, and the bittersweet gut punch of an ending had enough tears dripping down my ch…

No matter how horrifying and deadly, this is for the people who love monsters. Like... really love them.   RELEASE DATE: Feb. 13, 2026

I read a lot of dark fiction. Horror, dystopian science fiction, gritty crime, you name it. It’s what I like. Even with the toxic shitshow we’re currently living through, I still gravit…

I have to start off this review with a public apology to my son, Eric. Let me explain. He’s an ex-high school English teacher and current Phd student, and we have nearly the same taste in rea…

I don’t read enough graphic novels. There, I said it, and the truth is I say it every year, but here we are. As both a writer and artist, I have a deep appreciation for storytelling where the…

I haven’t read the books Matt Dinniman is most famous for, the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. I’ve heard nothing but raves about those novels, but as I’m not much of a gamer (I stil…

I know Chizmar through Chasing the Boogeyman, a riveting serial killer novel, and the Gwendy’s Button Box trilogy, a wonderful set of novels that leapfrog through various genres. Two of the G…

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By my count, Never Flinch is Stephen King’s 6th novel featuring the character Holly Gibney. It’s not my favorite Holly novel (that would be The Outsider) but it’s a solid and very…

I rarely read two books by the same author back to back—so many books, so little time, pesky things like working and sleeping getting in the way—but it happened with S.A. Cosby’s one-two punc…

You know what I love in a piece of fiction? Well, a lot of things, but when it comes to The Night That Finds Us All by John Hornor Jacobs, I love it’s sense of authenticity. Authenticity in p…

When I love a book, I want to tell it to the world. I will sing its praises to anyone who will listen (and even folks who won’t, as long as they don’t protest too loudly). Most of the t…

Sinners was the most fun I’ve had at the movies in a long time, and I wanted to immortalize one of my favorite scenes. Here’s Mary…

I’m just gonna say it—Joe Lansdale is a national treasure who should be talked about in the same breath as American writers like Twain, Steinbeck, and Faulkner. His novels and short stories, …

As a reader, Joe Lansdale makes me happy. He somehow writes exactly what I want to read. To paraphrase a recent Stephen King title, I like it darker, and Lansdale always, always delivers. As a some…

My twist on Beauty and the Beast. Apple Pencil using Procreate on an iPad.

Horror is a big, beautiful genre with a sub-genre for every type of reader—slasher, gothic, psychological, supernatural, folk, the list goes on and on—and I like them all, but one of my personal fa…

I’ve done the art for several book covers over the past couple of years, and hope to do more. I really enjoy doing them. Here are some of my favorites.

I recently did an art show at one of my favorite venues, Oddmall, and had several requests for Art the Clown from the Terrifier movies. I did this on an IPad with an Apple Pencil using Procreate. A…

Here’s the thing: I love coming across unusual, unexpected things when hiking in the woods. Abandoned, overgrown family cemeteries, the crumbling foundation of a ruined building being swallow…