Cast a Cold Eye, the ghostly novella I wrote with Derryl Murphy, appeared ten years ago as a limited-edition hardcover to exceptionally kind reviews. Now it's coming back to life as an ebook.  read

UPDATE!  After this blog entry was written, I emailed the text of it to John Hodgman on a whim. A few hours later, to my surprise, I received a response. His Honor told me he would endure my "gut punches"...  read

If we were zombies I promise you that I would love you for your brain  read

My friend Mark Worthen (❦nitewanderer) passed away unexpectedly yesterday. He was a horror, crime, and science fiction writer who worked tirelessly behind the scenes of the Stoker Awards for the Horror Writers Association and also served as HWA's webmaster. I...  read

I come to you, love, like a zombie in your thrall, hungry for your brains.  read

I watched Paranormal Activity yesterday evening on DVD. I found the movie deeply, thrillingly, and realistically frightening—not because I believe in ghosts or demons, but because it returned me to a time in my life when I did. Between the...  read

[For one week in July 2009, I took over as a guest blogger at the Electric Velocipede website while editor John Klima was away. This was the first of the four posts I contributed.] A Strong Premonition of Death Struck...  read

In which Bill, in celebration of the first Hugo nomination for John Klima's ELECTRIC VELOCIPEDE, reads the earliest of his four stories to appear in that fine little 'zine so far.  read

In which Bill reads an original Christmas story in the Halloween spirit, written by and starring his unsavory alter-ego Perry Slaughter.  read

In his most personal role ever, Anthony Hopkins dares audiences to assemble the pieces of an aging screenwriter’s fractured mind.  read