(Be sure to read to the end of this post for a fun, not-so-spooky, time-sensitive surprise, okay?) It’s October. Let’s talk scary. There are so many late-20th century horror novels I count as influences on my work, I could spend all day nattering on about them. When I was a young teen, horror novels put …Read More

I like my horror with a certain amount of…elegance. I don’t mean that I require diamonds, silk, and pretty words with my scary stories. Okay. I do like pretty words. Words that evoke images that tell a story in themselves–a kind of circular beauty. (Speaking of stories, Surreal South ’11 is going to press today! …Read More

Cinderella is my new favorite horror movie. Scary as all get-out, yet oddly beautiful. The actors are visually perfect, and completely committed to the story so that even when the film dips into the occasional horror-film cliche, it works. It’s a riff on the 1960 Georges Franju film, Les Yeux Sans Visage (Eyes Without a …Read More