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2009

Well, it's that time of year once again. 2009 was unquestionably one of the busiest years writing-wise that I've had in some time: one novelette, one full-length collection (thirteen stories plus an Afterword), six uncollected stories, thirteen brand new handwritten vignettes for the Deluxe edition of The Darkly Splendid Realm, the first ten-thousand words on a novella and about another nine or ten-thousand on a novel. Add to this six or seven book-signings, several live readings, a trip to R...

A Very Scary Solstice to One and All...

Dusting off Fear's Altar

Thanks to the guidance and handholding of my steadfast friend Simon Strantzas, At Fear's Altar has a sharp, clean new look. I'm quite fond of it. I'm not one for clutter and over the last few weeks I found my site was looking a bit clogged with information. I'll be sticking with this new format for some time. There may be a few bugs that I'll be ironing out this week, so don't panic if you've been "cut" from the Links area or some such thing; everything will be restored in due course.

I'll als...

R.I.P. Dan O'Bannon

Dan O'Bannon, the screenwriter responsible for Alien, Dead & Buried, the brilliantly funny Return of the Living Dead, and my all-time favourite Lovecraft adaptation, The Resurrected, has passed away at the age of 63.

I know celebrities die every day and that news of their demise affect us in different ways, if at all. But Dan O'Bannon's death (along with the death of Paul Naschy, "the Spanish Lon Chaney," last month) came as a real blow to me. Even though I never met him, the interviews I've ...

OMENS

One of the great advantages of unleashing a book upon the world is that copies find their way into the hands of new readers all the time.

Two gents were kind enough to share their recent thoughts on my 2007 collection Omens:

Jeffrey Thomas, author of the excellent Punktown mythos, has posted his views here

Scott E. Candey of Crionic Mind music shares his impressions here

My thanks to both Chris and Jeffrey for taking the time to spread the grim word around.