Sunday, May 29, 2016

The Sound of Horror

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This review is from an earlier blog, but worth a revisit, as this little jewel may be on the menu in the next few days... Back in the ea...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Surfside Sojourn

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LLLadies.... Back from spending a couple of relaxing days with some good friends in Surfside Beach, SC. There was geocaching, of course...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

The Monster Museum

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One of my most genuine pleasures is finding a copy of some old book that frightened, inspired, or otherwise made memories in my youth. I ...
Friday, May 13, 2016

Rum Collins

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I suppose it's the most intense writing experience I've ever had. It was Autumn 1998, and I was working on Dreams of the Dark , w...
Sunday, May 8, 2016

Time Keeps on Slippin'...

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Yeah, this past week was my birthday, and this coming week is Ms. Kimberly's birthday. I just had my previous birthday a few days befo...
Sunday, May 1, 2016

Wine, Witches, and Watery Awakenings

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As is customary, yesterday's Spring Book Festival at Brewed Awakening in Danville, VA, opened in the great outdoors, with a quite a f...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Brewed Awakening Spring 2016 Book Festival

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COMING UP: Brewed Awakening's Spring Book Festival, on Saturday, April 30, at the store, located at  610 Craghead St., Danville, VA 2...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

What a Long, Strange Trip, Part II

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In our last episode , after a nerve-wracking flight into Islip, Long Island, ye olde drowned rat had sunk a couple of Bass Ales at sweet M...
Friday, April 15, 2016

What a Long, Strange Trip, Part I

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Back in May 2000, not long after Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark was released, I accepted to an invitation to attend a gathering of Dar...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Hey, Ray!

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Another random tale of mischief and woe from my adolescence... It was during that period — 1972 or 1973 — when my friend Charles and I ma...
Saturday, April 9, 2016

Haunted, Hurting, and Happy

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Oh, my achy-breaky knees. I have surely put in some hiking this past couple of weeks, and the old bones are feeling it. I suppose it'...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Daisy Zoo

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Back in the days of Deathrealm , I tended to read more poetry than I do in my current old age. I cannot lie, poetry has never been one of...
Monday, March 28, 2016

The Legend of Hillbilly John

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The Legend of Hillbilly John is a relatively obscure little relic from the early 1970s, based on Manly Wade Wellman's Silver John st...

Back to Jack Taylor's House Party

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Back on St. Patrick's Day, I had the pleasure of appearing on Jack Taylor's House Party radio show on WFJX FOX Radio 910, and th...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Just Divine

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Had to make my usual visit to Martinsville to look after Mum on Friday and first part of the day Saturday, but I was able to get back yest...
Thursday, March 24, 2016

The Browns Summit Chainsaw Massacre?

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I love finding haunted places while I'm out geocaching, and I came upon a mighty fine one this afternoon. It's out in Brown Summit...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

Wining and Sciencing

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Kidlet came into town from New York City last week, and she's staying with me this weekend. She wanted to see the Greensboro Natural S...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Coming Up on Jack Taylor's House Party...

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Thursday, March 17, 2016 — hey, that's St. Patrick's Day! — I'll be doing a live Q&A session on the Jack Taylor's Hou...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Discoveries: Best of Horror and Dark Fantasy

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Received today: my contributor copy of the paperback edition of Discoveries: Best of Horror and Dark Fantasy from Dark Regions Press. Th...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Night Cachers

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It's unusual in the extreme to have an impromptu nighttime caching outing these days, mainly because I've had Greensboro essent...