Years ago at the very first Horrorfind Weekend in Baltimore – when I was just getting into Halloween and haunting houses – I got to sit in on a seminar by Leonard Pickel, editor of Haunted Attraction Magazine. After the seminar we got to talking, and I asked him what good how-to books he’d suggest [...]

One of the best things about the Internet is that everyone can have a voice and there’s no one telling them what they can and cannot say; one of the worst things about the Internet is that monkeys like me are doing it and we have no editors or fact checkers. Yes, the last time [...]

I’m only about half finished with this delightful book, but I wanted to get something up about it. Last Saturday night while I was at Castle Blood, I got a chance to spend the evening freezing my butt off next to Lesley Bannatyne. She was freezing hers off too while she signed copies of her [...]

So why on Earth have I posted this rather odd looking zombie paring of the Zombie Influx CD, which I just posted about the other day, and the book “Unabridged, Unabashed, and Undead” by Eric S. Brown, which while it could use the hand of an editor, is still a great, fun read – I [...]

Just a quick reminder here – Chris Kullstroem, author of “Monster Parties and Games” and “Making a Monstrous Halloween” will be at Horrorfind Weekend in Hunt Valley, MD this weekend signing her books. You can read my review of both by clicking Monsters and Books, and of course you can buy them by clicking eaching [...]