Best Albums of 2024...
...and at no one's request (and possibly against some people's wishes), here's the list of my favorite albums of 2024...
View ArticleGarbology... recommended reading!
Garbology: The GarbAugust Anthology of Awesome TrashA lovely new collection of stories (wild and scary and hilarious and weird), including one solidly spooky one - Let's Be Ghosts - by our very own...
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Yet another horror short story, kids. It's not Halloween anymore, but the world's still fookinspooky iddnit? It is if I've got anything to do with it! So, here ya go. Hope it delivers dread. If...
View ArticleCharlie Keeps Using Up His Red Crayons
Got another story for y'all. Maybe a couple more down the pike in coming days or weeks. I'm trying to pace them out because few people want to read that much of me. Hell, some of y'all don't wanna...
View ArticleRain Rain Go Away
Surprise! I un-lazied enough to type another one up already. This one's a bit of a style experiment. I'm about as far removed from being an 8-year-old girl as you can get, so I decided to see if I...
View ArticleThe 312 Wisteria Park Tapes
Storytime again, folks. Horror for Halloween, and it's another evil wicked mean and nasty one, in all ways. If you need trigger warnings, consider yourself notified. Everything's funny......
View ArticleWalk All Over You
Howdy. Been a while, huh? Yep. But occasionally I still write things (and far less occasionally type them up and revise them). But I did that now, so, here we go.This is a sequel to an earlier...
View ArticleNIGHTMARE LIBRARY: A Halloween Reading List
Greetings and felicitations, monster kids!Here’s the idea. It’s Halloween month, and I figured we could do our own book-club-type thing. Or an advent calendar of horror, maybe. Reading is good for...
View ArticleFor the Devil Holds Fast Your Eyelids
Long time, no nothing. I tried finishing a ghost story in time for Halloween but didn’t make it. So now you’re stuck with this until the story's done. Enjoy!The VVitch (2016)I saw The VVitch in the...
View ArticlePray For Agatha, Burning In Hell
Once again it's Halloween short-story (or novella, maybe?) time here at the blog we're all too lazy to update. If you like hunting down obscure 70's horror films this one should make you really...
View ArticleGone Shootin'
Short story time, kids! I know it's not Halloween, but this isn't a horror story, it's an action/crime deal. A badass-biker-chick story, to be specific. As a little background, sometimes I write on...
View ArticleBikers, Bad Dudes, And A Bitch
While my insanely-unreliable computer is connected to the net (for once in a blue moon) I figured I'd leave it on for a couple of days so I could fit in another blog post. So, when it rains it pours,...
View ArticleWe All Live And Die And Slowly Rot In The Castle Where Nobody Gets Out...
Well, that's a jackassy title. But, what the hell, it's different, gotta give it that.Anyway, here's a long, long overdue collection of horror book reviews. I don't post often, but when I do, I try...
View ArticleThe Night Is Filled With Maniacs
Here we go with another short story. I think this one turned out pretty well, but as always, you get to be the real judge. Writing is like Jimi Hendrix's music -- most of the fun's in the feedback,...
View Article665 + 1
October again. Time for horror short stories! I'm going to give you at least two this year, and I'm shooting for a third, but we'll have to see how much my muse is willing to dance with me, and how...
View ArticleDo Something.
I usually write about music, movies, and horror fiction for this blog, but today I want to do something different. Here's an observation following yet another mass shooting, this one yesterday at...
View ArticleThe Holy Wacken Land
OK, I think I’m ready to talk about Wacken now. Be forewarned that this is long and densely detailed, and whatever you think I’m going to say, you’re probably wrong.Three things got in the way of my...
View ArticleThe New Heavy Steamrock Style, Quite Different and Strange
A movie, a book, AND music – I’m just a goddamned Renaissance man!The Babadook(2014) – Amelia, a widowed single mother who struggles to raise her energetic (manic? ADHD? spazzy?) son Samuel,...
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Roy Ayers Quartet, "If I Were a Carpenter" (Nippon Columbia 45PX-2009-AX), released 1969.Cover/interpolation of the Tim Hardin song. The quartet is Roy Ayers, Sonny Sharrock, Miroslav Vitous, and Bruno...
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From "Sage" (RCA Victor LISP 34162), released 1972.The Four Kents, a Soul vocal group who were also United States servicemen stationed in Venice) recorded an album backed by The Stump (a band of...
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