Mad Stories for Mad People
The Butthole Surfers were the most important band I listened to during my formative teen years. They were my Beatles, my Grateful Dead, my One Direction(?). From the first time I heard frontman Gibby Haynes…
Ah, memories! Here’s a personal anecdote about some small town sordidness: I remember when I first saw it. I was coming home on the Long Island Railroad after visiting a friend at the School of…
The Hottest Tourist Spot in Central Pennsylvania There are no welcome signs (excepting the town line markers) greeting visitors today to Centralia, PA, but there needn’t be any. Upon entering the historic coal mining borough,…
My new novella UGLYVILLE has just been released, and, like my debut novel DEAD SIZE, I once again can’t really tell you who the audience is for it. I describe it as a True Crime-inspired…
As a lifelong movie buff, choosing my top 10 favorite films was really, really, really difficult. I gave myself some rules: no honorable mentions and I had to pick films that stand on their own,…
In observance of the second scariest holiday of the year, here are my 10+ favorite Horror movies. This is by no means an exhaustive list — I was weaned on horror fare — but these…
Since I haven’t posted anything on this site in a while, and I am quite fond of lists, I decided to share my ten favorite comedic movies. There are many I regretfully had to omit,…
In recognition of me starting my Masters program in Writing Studies… Recently, while sifting through some ancient papers of mine, I found this curious paragraph written, by hand, when I was in middle school. It’s…
In anticipation of the release of Mega Thump Publishing’s Science Fiction Horror anthology WHAT HAS TWO HEADS, TEN EYES, AND TERRIFYING TABLE MANNERS?, I proudly present the last of the authors featured in the book:…
In anticipation of the release of Mega Thump Publishing’s Science Fiction Horror anthology WHAT HAS TWO HEADS, TEN EYES, AND TERRIFYING TABLE MANNERS?, I proudly present more of the authors featured in the book: VINCE…