ARTICLES & REVIEWS
- My list of the “Best Ghost Story Collections” for Shepherd.com
- “Halloween Haunts: Weird Women Take on Halloween” for the Horror Writers Association’s blog
- “The H-Word: When the Final Girl Grows Up” for Nightmare Magazine October 2021
- “Mothers of the Mexican Gothic”, Rue Morgue Magazine September/October 2021
- “The Best Books on Halloween” at Shepherd.com”
- “You Really Don’t Want to Do This: Extreme Haunts and the Boundaries of Horror” for Nightmare Magazine September 2019
- “When It’s Their World: Writing for the Themed Anthology” for It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life (Crystal Lake Publishing)
- “Fantamagoriana; or, The Ghost Stories That Galvanized Frankenstein“ for Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein’s Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties (Firbolg Publishing)
- “Drive-in Delinquents” for The Art of Pulp Horror (Applause Books)
- “Happy Birthday Clive Barker” for The Bite newsletter from Shudder TV (October 8, 2018)
- “All Hail the Pumpkin King” for my author newsletter #20 (August 2018)
- “The H-Word: Dementia and the Horror Writer” for Nightmare Magazine May 2018
- “The Evil ’80s” for The Art of Horror Movies (Applause Books)
- “The Skeptic’s Guide to Ghost Hunting”, Gamut Magazine #1
- “The Real Creeps, or How to Create Horror Non-fiction Shorts”, Halloween Haunts 2016, reprinted in Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Horror Storytelling (Crystal Lake, 2017)
- “Proton Packs and PKE Meters” – How Ghostbusters influenced real paranormal investigations, at the Reaktion Books blog
- “Submit!: Some Long Truths About Short Fiction” at HWA’s site
- Review of Kim Liggett’s Blood and Salt at New York Journal of Books
- Review of the graphic novel The Evil Within at New York Journal of Books
- Halloween chapter for The Art of Horror (Applause Books)
- “Halloween” entry for The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
- “A Halloween Primer for Horror Writers” at Scribd.com
- “The Setting in Horror” appears in Now Write: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (Penguin)
- Another “Women in Horror Month” guest blog, this one at Becky Spratford’s “RA for ALL: Horror” blog, all about how I create female protagonists
- “Women in Horror Month” blog for HWA, about books with great female protagonists
- A “Women in Horror Month” guest blog at Natasha Ewendt’s blog on ten great female editors
- Here I am at SF Signal’s “Mind Meld”, discussing the best & worst genre movie adaptations
- “Female Protagonists in Horror” at HWA’s 2014 “Women in Horror Month” blog
- My essay “Sisters are Killin’ it for Themselves: Women in Horror” appears in Damnation’s Telling Tales of Terror, edited by Kim Richards
- My essay “The Walking Dead and The Dance of Death” appears in the BenBella book The Triumph of The Walking Dead, edited by James Lowder.
- “Why I Keep Writing Books About Halloween” at Becky Spratford’s RA for All: Horror blog
- “Ten Classics of Halloween Fiction” at Musings of the Monster Librarian
- A guest post at Jess Resides Here on “Five Things You May Not Know About L.A.”
- Here’s one at Working for the Mandroid on the zombies in Monsters of L.A..
- This one at Passion for Novels talks a little about the differences between writing novels and short stories.
- “Horror and Terror, Slashers and Stumps” is a four-part discussion about the state of modern horror between myself, Christopher Conlon, Kurt Newton and Norman Prentiss
- “How I Surprised Myself and Became a Halloween Expert”, guest blog for Benjamin Kane Ethridge
- “Halloween Misconceptions”, at Kealan Patrick Burke’s blog
- My essay on the Hong Kong movie The Untold Story (“Putting the Lie to the Inner Slasher”) appears in Vince A. Liaguno’s slasher movie essay collection Butcher Knives and Body Counts
- “Why Writing Horror Screenplays is REALLY Scary” appears in Writers Workshop of Horror, edited by Michael Knost
- Some book reviews for The Black Glove: Rio Youers’ End Times, Rocky Wood and Glenn Chadbourne’s Horrors!, Andy Duncan’s The Night Cache, Joel Lane’s Black Country, and Alison Moore’s When the Door Closed, It Was Dark
- My article “Focus! How Writers Can Improve Their Productivity” is free to read at the Cemetery Dance Writers Corner.
- “Pirates! Or, How to Protect Your Intellectual Property on the High Seas of the Internet” is free online at HWA’s site
- “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
- Movie reviews, Horror, various from 1997-1999 (also served as Contributing Editor for Horror during this time)
- “Throwdown” movie reviews (with Michael Marano), Chizine.com
COLUMNS
- My column on antiquarian bookselling, “From Dusty Shelves”, is now running at Horror World
- My column on Asian horror, “The East is Red”, ran at FearZone and The Black Glove (both now defunct), but the reviews are archived at The East is Red Blog
- “The Small Scream”, Horror, regular column ran from 1997-1999 (television reviews)
INTRODUCTIONS/AFTERWORDS
- Foreword for the anthology of papers from the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference (McFarland & Co., Inc., 2018)
- Foreword for the anthology The Horror Zine’s Book of Ghost Stories (2018)
- Introduction for Gene O’Neill’s The Burden of Indigo (Written Backwards, 2015)
- Foreword for the anthology The Best of Horror Library Volumes 1-5 (Cutting Block Books, 2015)
- Afterword for Michael Louis Calvillo’s novel As Fate Would Have It (Bad Moon Books, 2009)
- Introduction for Patrick Freivald’s novel Twice Shy (JournalStone, 2012)
- Introduction for Greg Chapman’s The Last Night of October (Bad Moon Books, 2013)
- Introduction for the anthology Deep Cuts, edited by E. S. Magill, Angel Leigh McCoy, and Chris Marrs (Evil Jester Press, 2013)
- Introduction for the fiction collection Little by Little, by John R. Little (Bad Moon Books, 2013)
