The Halloween Encyclopedia 2nd Edition, published by McFarland in Spring 2011. Now updated to 2010, this second edition includes more than 50 new entries, covering subjects ranging from Folk Art to African American legends. Many existing entries have been expanded and revised, with new entries (“Chronology of Halloween” and “Halloween in Literature and the Arts”) [ Read More ]
Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times, co-written with Rocky Wood and illustrated by Greg Chapman, published by McFarland in June 2012. For three centuries, as the Black Death rampaged through Europe and the Reformation tore the Church apart, tens of thousands were arrested as witches and subjected to torture and execution, including [ Read More ]
This unique “flip book” contains four novelettes about barber shops by Lee Thomas, Tim Lebbon, Kealan Patrick Burke and Gary Braunbeck, and four novelettes about beauty shops by Rhodi Hawk, Fran Friel, Roberta Lannes and me. My novelette is “The Willowstown Womens’ Cut and Dye Club”. Buy directly from the [ Read More ]
Monsters of L.A.. published in trade paperback by Bad Moon Books, 2011. Reprinted in e-book form with new cover art by Lynne Hansen, 2018. Nineteen never-before-published short stories and one novelette (“The Urban Legend”) that re-introduce the classic movie monsters into contemporary Southern California settings. At the back of the book are small essays that [ Read More ]
