2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,900 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to […]

Matt Cowan’s Top Twenty Horror Books List

I sent the great David T. Wilbanks my list of top twenty favorite horror books, which he has kindly posted on his website. Check it out by following the link below: http://davoortwilbo.blogspot.com/

What Was Your Favorite Halloween Costume, Murphy Edwards?

I met Murphy Edwards when we shared space in a few anthologies from James Ward Kirk Fiction. Through our interactions online, I became very impressed with him as a person. Not only is he a talented writer who excels in creating interesting, lifelike characters, but he’s also great at encouraging his fellow writers. He and […]

Coming This Halloween to Horror Delve

I’m planning several special posts for Halloween this year at Horror Delve that I’m pretty excited about. My annual Halloween short story reading list will return along with some possible guest posts, and I’m considering posting one of my own stories here as well. Hope you stop by to celebrate the season!

Good Bye, Lawrence.

Very saddened to learn that Lawrence Santoro passed away last night. I never met him in person but was able to interact with him when my short stories was accepted to be read on the Tales To Terrify podcast he hosted. He was so kind and friendly during all our interactions that I felt I’d […]

Abraham Merritt

Abraham Merritt worked as an editor for The American Weekly magazine, making enough money to travel the world, bringing back weapons and artifacts from exotic locals. He wrote fiction on the side, producing short stories and novels in the fantasy, science-fiction and horror genres. His stories were adventurous, mysterious and the strange. Two of his […]

13 Haunting Tales by E.F. Benson

Edward Frederic Benson, the son the Archbishop of Canterbury, was born in 1867, in Wokingham, Berkshire. He attended Marlborough and King’s College, Cambridge and spent three years studying archeology abroad in Greece and Egypt. He enjoyed immediate success with his first society novel, DODO (1893) and ended up writing over a hundred published pieces in […]

FRITZ LEIBER HORROR STORIES

Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) was a prolific writer who won multiple prestigious awards during his long career. He was also an actor, poet and champion chess player. His work has been adapted to film (The Girl with the Hungry Eyes 1949, 1967, 1995 as well as a classic Night Gallery television episode in 1972) and radio […]

Horror 101: The Way Forward

Just bought this for 99 cents for my Kindle app! It has great horror writing advice from professionals like Ramsey Campbell, Tim Wagonner, Lawrence Santoro, Gary McMahon, Ellen Datlow, Gary Fry and many more. The subjects include editing, what makes editors say yes, reading aloud, comic books, running a website, and just about anything else […]

HORROR-THEMED ADVENTURE GAME BOOKS

As a child there were a few series of books that really inspired my interest in reading. One was the series Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators. They followed three young adults who acted as private investigators. They solved lots of spooky crimes which took place near their home in Rocky Beach, California. I also […]