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Dark Dreamers Featuring Richard Matheson

Here's another interview captured by Stanley Wiater for his television series, Meet the Dark Dreamers - Richard Matheson.

The House Of Thunder: A Conversational Goldmine

This is courtesy of Dean Koontz, who wrote this piece as an afterword for the Berkeley edition of The House of Thunder, which was originally published by Pocket Books under the pseudonym of Leigh Nichols.

Ty Schwamberger To Teach Horror Writing Class

Ty Schwamberger is the newest Part-Time Faculty member at the University of Akron, in Akron, Ohio, and will be instructing a class in Spring 2010, called, "So You Want To Be A Horror Writer – How to Write Scary Stuff and Get It Published."

Alternate reality

I’m not a 13-year-old boy from Western Maine, but I pretended to be one on the internet. That sounds a lot worse than it really is. It wasn’t an undercover sting to flush out predators. It was part of an alternate reality game (ARG) run by Scribner to promote Under the [...]

Thomas Sullivan: SEA LIONS IN COFFINS, GETTING LOST & WRITING WITHOUT WORDS

Pssst…me again.  Thought I’d check in on you.  See what kind of problems you got today.  No problems?  That’s a problem.  You’re an adventurer, a thinker, a romantic, a thrillseeker — something in a Walter Mitty fantasy that needs an adrenaline feed.  You need a problem.  Well…to be precise, you need a problem and a [...]

But You’ve Never Been There!

I like to write about places I’ve never been to.  It’s liberating, and it’s an experience that I recommend to other writers. 

But wait a minute, you ask.  Don’t you have to visit places you write about?  Don’t you have to step on another country’s soil, smell the air, mingle with the inhabitants and interact with [...]

Researcher’s Hell

Now and then I sit back and contemplate the difference between myself and a few of the other writers I know. More often, I sit back and consider the differences between successful writers and those who haven’t yet reached published status. I need to clarify something here. When I say “published,” what I mean is [...]

Joyful Stress

Let me list for you some of my responsibilities.

I have a full-time job with a utility company, and while that job is staying, the location is moving… and me with it.  Starting in a month, I can expect an additional sixty minutes added to my daily commute (thirty minutes each way.)

I am planning to be [...]