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Review: Abominations of Yondo by Clark Ashton Smith
The Abominations of Yondo by Clark Ashton Smith This short story by CAS was one of the first things I ever read by this author. The fantastic use of language, the incredible imaginative landscape, and the imagery of the things that the main character comes across as...
Both Loud and Silent | Drabble
Both Loud and Silent All the books were both loud and silent. Brimming with epic love stories, cataclysmic machinations and diabolical conflict. Minds spinning imagination into fabric of contrived realities. Existence made real encoded in language. Could there be...
November Drabble | The Sleeping Faces
Drabble A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in a confined space. The Sleeping Faces The old library had never...
October Drabble | Justice
Drabble A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in a confined space. Justice The landslide had exposed the basement...
September Drabble | Infinauts
Drabble A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in a confined space. Infinauts The real magic comes from the...
New Goodreads Group: Classic Pulp Review
So I've got the itch to go diving through some old pulp fiction magazines once again and I thought rather than write up a review of it and post it somewhere with the off chance that someone who reads the same obscure things goes looking for someone else who has...
Newly Published
The good folks at the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers have put together two anthologies with stories written by yours truly in them! [ezcol_1half] [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] [/ezcol_1half_end] Both stories were a lot of fun to conceptualize and I feel...
Adventures in Reading: Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb
Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb My rating: 5 of 5 stars What blew me away about this story, and other stories by Cobb is his ability to paint an amazing picture of an exotic landscape. If you spend just a moment and read the first couple of paragraphs of this story you will...
Adventures in Reading: The Horror On the Links by Seabury Quinn
The Horror on the Links by Seabury Quinn My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don't know what it is about Jules de Grandin stories that I like so much. They are not usually all that inventive, edgy, or linguistically impactful. The characters don't really develop in any...
Three Reasons to Read Horror Fiction
So I was asked the other day why it is that I read horror fiction. It's a fair question, and probably one that resonates with a lot of those that don't find themselves drawn to stories that are quite so dark. It might even sound like an unpleasant experience...