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Nursery Rhymes For Horrible People
How The Victorians Celebrated Death, and What I Learned From This Macabre Tradition Avery Vane, Avery Vane Wicked, twisted, and insane Killed his wife and ate her brain Then killed his son and did the same When I wrote this verse for my short story The Complications of Avery Vane (published in the Scribblers’ Den…
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Speakable Horror
Narrating Fear and Sharpening Instincts Living something—even if only in the mind’s eye—can leave a lasting imprint. That’s what I love about horror. It lingers. It teaches. It prepares. The horror genre has a remarkable way of keeping us alert. It activates our survival instincts, nudging us to imagine the worst and consider how we’d…
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Lying for a Living
“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying ‘wolf, wolf’ came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels. Literature was born on the day when a boy came crying ‘wolf, wolf,’ and there was no wolf behind him.”~ VLADIMIR NABOKOV Lies are funny things. The smaller…
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Mister Jack-0-Lantern
Mister Jack-O-Lantern “Have you ever taken a long look at Johnny Waite’s eyes? Johnny’s eyes are as black as his stained soul, and what is behind that boy’s eyes is pure evil. The worst monsters are human beings. The ones who appear normal on the surface.” ~ Dr. Thomas Davison, author ***** Jack: The good…
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I’m Not Normal
There’s something wrong with me. There must be. I mean, other than writing horror stories – in both senses as I’m not much of a writer – I look and act, for the most part, relatively normal. Well, as normal as normal goes I guess. I’m quite boring. Ordinary. You’d find talking to a lump…
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Dracula the Un-Dead
In just about two weeks, on August 9, I will be at Boutique du Vampyre in New Orleans to sign copies of my Scarlet Order vampire novels. I’ve enjoyed visiting this French Quarter shop since I discovered it in 2014. In 2020, when much of the world went into lockdown, owner Marita Crandle had the…
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Dolls don’t move. But what if… they did?
You could’ve sworn the doll’s head was tilted too far—or turned the other way entirely. Or maybe… it was staring at you. No, it’s just your mind playing tricks, right? Dolls don’t move on their own. Or do they? Dolls are frequently used in horror, and there are plenty of good reasons for that. They’ve…
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