I was thrilled to write the introduction to Gordon White's excellent first collection of short fiction, titled As Summer’s Mask Slips and Other Disruptions, releases from Trepidatio Publishing in Jan. 2020. Gordon is an excellent writer with a veteran's confident voice and I suspect that readers will...
The Outer Dark Symposium 2019 was a wonderful experience all around and I was fortunate enough to sit on a panel discussing "The Fiction of Forking Paths: Weird Horror and Spec-Lit from Latin-, Afro-, and other non-Anglo Traditions." In a beautiful moment of synchronicity, I...
Summer is finished and so is my novella, Archibald Leech, the Many Storied Man. It will go over to a publisher this week and I'll have updates after that. For now, it's back to what I expect will be my final draft of All the Teeth...
Last night, exhausted from the road, I expressed my happiness in a future schedule clear of travel. Toady I've thrown that out the window and locked in my hotel room and table for Scares that Care 2020. Glutton for punishment? Hell yes....
Sometimes when it rains, it pours. Dale Ester shared this wonderful review of The Isle: Fans of gothic horror are in for a treat with THE ISLE. Set on the New England coast, John C. Foster's novel is full of heavy accents, stormy skies and the salty...
A wonderful Amazon review of The Isle by Marissa Smith! "From the children to the corpses, I thoroughly enjoyed being immersed in Foster's dark world again with little regard for modern time. I often get distracted and don't finish books but that was definitely not the case...
Here is my Necronomicon schedule: I’m arriving on Friday around lunch. Saturday – 3:00-4:15pm THE UNNAMABLE DOWN EAST: THE INFLUENCE OF LOVECRAFT ON THE WORKS OF STEPHEN KING – Biltmore Ballroom, Graduate 17th Floor What elements of Lovecraftian fiction have been incorporated by King into his narratives? Which stories...
I typically have more than one project going at a time in various stages of development. As I wait for notes back on the novel All the Teeth in the World I'm revising a novel/novella titled Archibald Leech, the Many Storied Man. This project grew...
It's hard to figure out to begin when recapping Necon, a unique conference in Portsmouth, RI oft likened to a summer camp for horror writers/readers/publishers. Do I start with my terrible performance in the Necon Olympics miniature golf event? My roommate Paul Tremblay? Dinners out...
Manor House adapted my short story "Hand of Glory" into an audio tale and did a wonderful job. The story was written to develop the character of Hoodoo Girl, and was later included in my first novel, DEAD MEN. Hoodoo Girl is a young hillbillyette...