The Eternal OneAt our human limits, when we've gone as far as flesh and imagination can take us, we meet the Eternal One.The CrowImmemorially old and inconsolable, he is there only for those who seek both revenge and love, and are willing to go all the way-and beyond.Wicked PrayerOn a coal-black ...
So I picked up the text and started flipping through it and got very bored very early on. Horror stories are usually like that for me, because they are so darn predictable and so filled with pent up teenage hormones, gasoline fumes, and slimy body fluids. Maybe back when I was 16, all this horr...
Machine-gunning women in black leather. An asthmatic chihuahua. A rattlesnake-handling preacher. All in a day
Dan watched it, wondering at the bird’s strength. Somehow, they were connected. Dan couldn’t understand how, but he sensed the Crow’s thoughts urging him onward. But Dan wasn’t ready to move. Not yet. The bird had brought him back from beyond the ve...
"Jason," he gasped, almost doubling over. "Man, we thought you'd never get home from vacation. Todd and Dave and me, we didn't know what to do. But now that you're back...." He left the sentence unfinished. Suddenly, he wore the relieved look of a tired pitcher who'd just been pulled from a tough...
Fox and Other Feral Tales A Few Recommendations A Few Recommendations Not much commentary on this one, since it’s not a story. This piece is a chapter I contributed for an HWA book on writing horror, entitled (surprisingly enough) Writing Horror, which was edited by Mort Castle. ...
A lone truck on a scorched black licorice strip, two men—Anshutes and Coker—inside. Outside it’s one hundred and twenty-five degrees under a fat December moon. Frosty weather in the twilight days of global warming…and just in time for the holiday season. ...
Damn, but he hated cars that were named after astronomical phenomena. The Ford Galaxie, the Mercury Comet, the Chevy Nova . . . and now the Saturn. Not that they weren’t okay automobiles—it was the old game of heightened expectations that bothered Jack. Some marketing guy ...