What, if anything, is a Lovecraftian story?
My short story The Happiest Place on Earth is now available for purchase in the LOLcraft anthology of Lovecraftian humor. Which is, of course, a contradiction in terms. Just as …
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Drive back the dark in 2023!
The sun cycle is tilting as it always does and light is increasing again. In 2023, let’s keep driving darkness back in all the ways that we can. While I …
The writer is not the story
Even though I’m well aware Victorian society wasn’t as prim and respectable as many people imagine, Thomas Boyle’s Black Swine in the Sewers of Hampstead: Beneath the Surface of Victorian …
So why Hammett?
I really like the cover for this collection —— but why pick Dashiell Hammett to select the stories (or stick his name on the cover even if he didn’t)? While …
The Ripper and the Baronet: my novel Questionable Minds is out
Some decades back, I wrote a novel. Okay, I’ve actually written several unpublished novels. Questionable Minds was my fifth. By that point I’d gained enough experience that when I looked …