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July 25, 2025
Free Download!
Free Download!
My heavily illustrated cosmic horror novel, The Black Seas of Infinity, is a free download for one day!
Written right after the death of my immigrant wife was massively mishandled by the police, I incorporated everything from the dark path I could have gone down, to the ancient civilization theories of Graham Hancock, the cosmic terror of H.P. Lovecraft, the whispered conspiracies of a power-hungry government, and much more.
After I massively re-worked, re-edited, and posted it back on Amazon, it lost many of its old reviews, which dropped it in the listings and made it more difficult to market. Anyone interested, please download the free copy here and submit a review to Amazon.
Here is a promo image of the cover, a few of the interior illustrations, and a CR code that leads directly to the free download on Amazon.
The heavily illustrated cosmic horror of The Black Seas of Infinity.
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July 23, 2025
I’m returning to Austin!
I’m returning to Austin!
Right after I attend Killercon, from August 1st to 3rd, I’ll be staying in Austin for a few days as a guest at The Austin Tattoo Company.
Spots are limited, but if you’re interested in something cool, I’ll offer you a deal. If you want something lame, the price is double!
Email me here to book!
I’ll be doing a few day guest spot at The Austin Tattoo Company
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July 18, 2025
Northern Frontier
Northern Frontier
The illustration for the story I contributed to the September release of a new Horrorific Tales anthology.
Northern Frontier is a Christian version of the Boy Scouts that my parents sent me to as a young child. It’s in uptown New York, and in my tale, I turn it into a breeding ground for cultists, which one could argue it already is, but I take it even darker.
Check out the Horrorific Tales website here
Brains are delicious
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July 15, 2025
Splatterpunk Zine’s controversial pre-COVID release.
Splatterpunk Zine’s controversial pre-COVID release.
I figured my girlfriend, Marell Kim, would be the perfect model for the story “Things Remembered” by Brian Keene in issue 13 of Splatterpunk Zine. It details how friends find the horrible abuse (in a set of videotapes) that a recently deceased, famous author would subject his female fans to. She already had that gothic look, I just had to purchase a set of handcuffs for the reference scene.
The issue is long sold out, but you can get the latest issue here
Chris Hall for DLS reviews calls it “A bloody brilliant read.”
You can view his website here
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Brian Keene;s tale about the death of a famous horror author
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July 14, 2025
The latest convention I’m attending
The latest convention I’m attending
This weekend I’ll be at the Dallas Authorcon.
For the third time, I’m visiting, and it’s getting bigger every year. Producer Merrill David is also releasing his new anthology, Tumble Bleed, which includes my story, Flannel Mouth. Get it here!
Stop by my booth, say hello, and buy something so I can order more supplies for the coming apocalypse!
Shirts, hats, stickers, and magnets are sold out, but I’ll have art prints and books!
You can always check out the book videos or ask me questions here
The 4th Texas authorcon, and it gets bigger every year!
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July 11, 2025
Christmas is Cancelled
Christmas is Cancelled.
Early 1980 was a whole different world. It seems like a lifetime ago and even another reality. One piece snow suits, massive blizzards, drifts of snow burying everything, and overgrown woods whose untamed fauna swarmed in around pockets of encroaching human civilization.
I lived upstate in a rural housing development while my dad attended West Point. Tracks of abandoned woodland, a few plots owned by grumpy farmers who shot at us with rocksalt, surrounded our rural two-story house.
We had a blizzard in May, thirteen inches. Giant drifts of slowly blackening snow piled up on the sides of the road.
The banks were so high in the winter, my friends and I would burrow tunnels through them, creating a maze of connected forts.
I use just such a setting for my story Christmas is Cancelled, in my collection of short stories, Down Highways in the Dark…by Demons Driven.
Available here
In it, Santa exists. he’s not just a holiday myth, but a strange accident twists him into a child-eating monster.
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Children flee a blood thirsty Santa
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July 9, 2025
You’re Dead
You’re DeadBack in 1997, I did the cover for an issue of Maximum Rock and Roll entitled”You’re Dead”. This was for the main article, which accused the government of creating the AIDs virus. I recall speaking with publisher Tim Yohannan, and he seemed a bit grumpy. He was mad it was taking me so long (I worked 60 hours a week as a bike messenger at the time, so it took me a week to do this), and said he’d use all the images but refused to use the firstone as he thought I was pushing some extreme Vegan agenda (I’ve never been vegan).
A very controversial figure in the punk scene, Green Day even wrote a song about how much they hated him!
Tim died back in 1998, but Maximum Rocknroll continues to survive as an online magazine.
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Maximum Rock and Roll illustrations for the article You’re Dead
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July 8, 2025
Free expo tables!
Free expo tables! We are looking for more indie comic artists and authors. I have some free booths to give away to attract more artists who want to promote their projects at the Dead Man’s Hand Expo. If you email me at danhenk@gmail.com, I can add you to the free list and update your information on the website. Some great cosmic horror artists and authors will be attending, and we might even get Art the Clown from the Terrifier movies!
The Dead Man’s Hand Convenmtion will feature everything from Horror, to Sci-Fi, to Comics, Indie Filmakers, and tattoos!
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July 6, 2025
War Is Hell
War is hell. We all know that. But unless you were a veteran who saw it on the front lines (like the World War 2 vets who cried during the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan), it was often pitched to the masses as that sort of John Wayne, code of honor and patriotism thing. My dad is even retired military, involved in every war from Vietnam to the first Gulf War and I didn’t even imagine how brutal it was. We’d watch movies like Bridge Over The River Kwai at the local military base theater, where tough, charismatic men fought nobly against a cartoonishly evil foe>
That illusion of grandeur started to crack with films like Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, but what really broke it down was a combination of social media and movies like Black Hawk Down. I attempt to capture that aura of senseless violence in a scene from my book The End of the World.
The novel is available here on Amazon
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A division of the Texas Federal Reservel gets massacred.
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July 5, 2025
Dead Man’s Hand Expo
Dead Man’s Hand expo.
Here are the guests I’ve confirmed so far for the Dead Man’s Hand Expo.
Booths are still open for horror filmmakers, comic artists, and horror, sci-fi, or fantasy writers!n I still have a few to give out. Shoot me an email here if you want one!
More have told me they’ll attend, but their confirmation is still pending.
Christopher Brown
Reed Alexander
Dicey Grenor
Dan Henk
Tommy Clark
Aaron Lebold
Bill Anderson
Kevin Lucia
Christian Zaffo
Gerold Von Stoddard
Author’s! Comic Artists! Filmmakers! The who.e indie community will be present at the Dead man’s Hand Expo
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