Last year I shared the list of horror movies I planned to watch in 2016 (and kept adding to it as I found others). This year I figured I’d do the same to keep myself on-track. This year’s list includes any from last year’s that I didn’t end up watching yet, plenty of favorites I’d … Read more
Today I joked to a friend that if I really wanted to hurt my characters, I’d write romance instead of horror. This came after he expressed concern over how many characters I killed off in the course of a story I’m working on (taking a break from the screenplay to polish a short story before a submission … Read more
Yesterday I shared the horror novels that made my reading list for 2016. Today I thought I’d share some of the horror movies that I plan to watch as well. Many of these are films I’ve been wanting to watch for the first time, though some are favorites I watch repeatedly. The Shining Dusk till … Read more
I’d like to talk a little bit about the background of my first horror novel today. On its most basic level, it’s a ghost story — based on an urban legend from my college town, but a ghost story nonetheless. Ghost stories appeal to me in large part due to their plausibility (at least in … Read more
I went to a family party this weekend and ran into an old family friend. It turns out he wants to write books, so we chatted a bit. And I mentioned a spooky abandoned hospital that I desperately want to visit for research, but which isn’t open for public tours. He used to be a … Read more
Before I start using this blog to yap about my projects and writing process, I thought it was fitting to share a bit of my background with the horror genre as a whole and why I chose to pursue it. In the Beginning My interest in horror and the supernatural began as soon as I … Read more