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POETRY

  • "Bodega Bay, 2004", A Sea of Alone: Poems for Alfred Hitchcock

ARTICLES

  • My column on antiquarian bookselling, "From Dusty Shelves", is now running in the Cemetery Dance newsletter
  • My column on Asian horror, "The East is Red", is now running at The Black Glove (and older columns can be found at The East is Red Blog)
  • My article on horror screenwriting appears in WRITERS WORKSHOP OF HORROR (Woodland Press, 2009)
  • My interview with Del Howison appears in this issue of Dark Scribe magazine
  • "Smart Broads and Tough Guys: The Strange World of Vintage Paperbacks", published in the July 2008 issue of Clarkesworld.
  • "Acts of Darkness: Writing Horror for the Small Stage", ON WRITING HORROR, published by the Horror Writers Association and Writers Digest
  • "Screamplays! Writing the Horror Film", four-part series on writing horror screenplays, originally written for the HWA's newsletter
  • "Have Special Effects Killed Horror?", Horror #7
  • "The Small Scream", Horror, regular column ran from 1997-1999 (television reviews)
  • Movie reviews, Horror, various from 1997-1999 (also served as Contributing Editor for Horror during this time)
  • Currently ongoing: "Throwdown" movie reviews (with Michael Marano), Chizine.com

MISCELLANEOUS APPEARANCES

  • Publishers Weekly article on used bookselling that interviewed me
  • Small interview about NaNoWriMo and writing in general with me at Renderosity
  • Interview with Mark Sieber (scroll past the story) at Horror Drive-In
  • I provided the "Afterword" for Michael Louis Calvillo's splended novel AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT (Bad Moon Books, 2009)
  • My lists on "Top Ten Asian Horror Movies" and "Five Scary Traditional Halloween Stories" appear in BOOK OF LISTS: HORROR, edited by Scott Bradley, Del Howison and Amy Wallace. You can read an expanded version of the "Halloween Stories" list at scribd.com
  • Here's a zombie haiku at zombie poet laureate Ryan Mecum's site (scroll to the bottom)
  • Interview with Gabrielle Faust at FearZone.com
  • Interviewed extensively in SPLATTER FLICKS: HOW TO MAKE LOW-BUDGET HORROR FILMS by Sara Caldwell, published by Allworth Press in 2006
  • "Growing Man" from FRAMED: A GALLERY OF DARK DELICACIES, from Dark Delicacies
  • The Letter "H" in THE ALTRUISTIC ALPHABET, from Dark Delicacies
  • THE TIGER GARDEN: A BOOK OF WRITERS' DREAMS Note: Proceeds from the sales of this fascinating book went to Amnesty International.
  • The 1996 Horror Writers Calendar
  • "The Black Death Martini", Conjuring Dark Delicacies
  • Here I am from the documentary on Halloween history that's found on the Blu-ray edition of the movie Trick 'R Treat: