The tooth pain is entirely gone now, a massive improvement from a few weeks ago.

Consensual cannibalism in a quaint town.

Want to hear a two-word horror story?

Lingering ghosts of a historic hotel in British Columbia.

"Are those three things in the title related?!" I vociferated, interrobangedly.

A Japanese spirit that you never want to look in the eye.

I've been working on a new short fiction project and just launched it on YouTube: Phonographic Visions.

A '90s cult classic that redefined childhood nightmares.

I recently learned that there are doll conventions.

Kings, patricide, and ancient atonement.

We've been having some pretty foggy nights here in North Texas lately.

Feasting with ghosts under a moonlit sky.

I've been eyeing some revisions for my first novel for a few months, and I decided to test my ideas in the first chapter.

Horrific flying heads haunting Balinese nights.

Querying a novel makes you look hard at everything, especially your opening pages.

An ogre? Devil? Vampire? A dragon that can magically make weapons to murder you with? Yes, all in one creature.

Cooking blood is one of the worst smells.

A dog-faced man prowling the Nullarbor Plain in Australia.

Now that the newsletters are at a slower pace, I've had time to catch up on a few things.

An 18th-century Gothic fiction novel of a monk consumed by unspeakable darkness.

There are a couple of coyotes hanging around my part of Texas.

Vengeful spirits of Ancient Rome.

Have I ever mentioned I like dolls?

Keeping old films alive since 1993.

Planning new fiction projects takes a lot of time and a lot of thought.