by mike | Apr 25, 2016 | Adventure fantasy, Books, Horror, Science Fiction, Sword & Planet, Uncategorized, Writing |
I am happy to report that Book Three in my “World After Death” series, Dark Seas of Maldrinium, has just been published. The story is a “revised-the-living-crap-out-of-it” version of a book that first came out in the late 1970s. It is also the first half of a strange...
by mike | Apr 18, 2016 | Aging, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Science Fiction, Uncategorized |
I scored my first driver’s license as a teen in New York City, shortly after they invented the automobile. It listed my height at 5’10”, and it still says that today. Tell the truth, I don’t think I was ever actually 5’10”, but at 5’9¾” I guess that was close enough....
by mike | Apr 14, 2016 | Books, California, Historical Novels, Horror, Native Americans, Uncategorized, Writing |
I wrote this post in 2012, a couple of years before publishing my historical novel about this tribe, Stone Woman: Winema and the Modocs. Of my four horror novels, three are steeped in Native American culture and mythology. More specifically, the Native Americans that...
by mike | Mar 24, 2016 | Books, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Uncategorized, Writing |
Here are some more observations from a 2012 post about how we writers of horror fiction go about scaring readers. In an earlier post, “Horrors! Or How to Scare the ‘Yell’ Out of People,” I wrote about the effect of scaring readers and film watchers with subtle horror,...
by mike | Mar 21, 2016 | Films About Writers, Ghosts, Horror, Horror Movies, Movies, Paranormal, Romance, Uncategorized, Writing |
In the 2015 Gothic thriller, Crimson Peak, director Guillermo del Toro has crafted an atmospheric period piece designed to scare the living crap out of viewers. Young, aspiring novelist Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) likes to write ghost stories, but I doubt if she...
by mike | Mar 14, 2016 | Baseball, Books, Editing, Historical Novels, Horror, Life, Publishing, Read & Critique, Thrillers, Uncategorized, Writing |
I had lunch last week with a horror writer from Maine. (No, not THAT horror writer.) Hank Garfield and his wonderful girlfriend, Lisa, were in San Diego for a vacation, as well as to visit some of Hank’s family. I hadn’t seen my old friend since he moved back to Maine...
