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Kids in Horror: Monsters

Kids can take on more forms in Horror than simply the victims. Sometimes, they're the monsters.

If it's the innocence of children that makes their deaths in fiction so unbearable, what about when they have no innocence, or when that innocence gets twisted into something else entirely? The best example again returns to Stephen King's Pet Sematary, where little Gage, once the victim, returns to life but with a thirst for murder. It almost twists at you to the point where you don't know what to f...

Kids in Horror: Victims

Children in horror can be a bit of a touchy subject. Some people refuse to read anything which has hints of child abuse or graphic descriptions of violence against them. I can't say I blame them too much, it is something that makes me a little bit squeamish. I say that even though some of my own works have scenes which fall along those lines.

Class 5 opens with a scene which features the death of a young boy, and it includes a scene of the boy's father finding the body later on.

Hannah has a sc...

Audiobooks!

In any business, it's generally a good idea to experiment. Buying ads, posters, signs, commercials; trying new products, things like that. The same goes for writing and being an author. It's a fair idea to try something new and different every so often.

I tried something new myself a few months ago, and while it hasn't turned into a windfall, writing is a long-game, and it certainly seems to be helping with that.

One of my shorter works available for purchase is PATHS: Three Short Horror Storie...

Video Game Review: Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

If you're a fan of horror video games, you know the name Koji Igarashi. If you don't go find a way to play Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, then come back to read this review. Widely regarded as the best Castlevania game ever made, it really set the stage for the Metroidvania style of games that are crosses between side-scrolling action and exploration-RPG games. Despite Symphony of the Night's popularity, it became increasingly difficult for Koji to convince the major company he worked fo...

Movie Review: Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Since Legendary's Godzilla came out in 2014, I've been waiting for this to release, and now it's finally here!

And it's so nice to see filmmakers not just taking a property and twisting it into what they want, but paying homage and respect to a property's origins and keeping it as it's supposed to be.

This is a Godzilla movie. This is a Godzilla movie as it should be with the power of Hollywood behind it. But Big G isn't the only one in the movie, they brought back the main gang from the classi...

Video Game Review: Resident Evil 2 (2019)

I played the original Resident Evil 2 on the N64 in 1998. It was the first official horror game I ever got to play and it freaked me out pretty good. The controls, the monsters, the rationing of ammo and health items, were completely unlike anything else I'd ever played before. It was a singular experience that took many years to find a game that could replicate the feelings of real anxiety and trepidation RE2 caused.

21 years later, a remake of that classic game emerges and shows why the game...

The Ghostbusters we could have had

With all the fuss about the Ghostbusters Re-Reboot, I wanted to drop an idea I've had for a VERY looong time.


I was a kid when the original Ghostbusters came out in 1984, and it was easily one of my favorite movies. I loved the classic cartoon series, and when Ghostbusters 2 came out, the slime-filled bathtub quickly became a source of nightmares for me. But while I loved Ghostbusters 2 minus the nightmares, one thought always nagged at me that I really wanted to see explored.

Walter Peck.


While...

Transcendent is out!

I announced my short story sale a while ago, but now I get to announce that the anthology Transcendent by Transmundane Press which contains my story "Sunday School" is now available to the public!


Rest assured, this is a massive tome, with over fifty short stories to keep you reading for a while. In addition to the stories, there's also some appropriately creepy art inside to go along with some of the pieces, so there's more than words to make your skin crawl.

Reviews are starting to come in, w...

A new piece in the works!

It's been a while, it has. Far too long. There are reasons for that. But here's to hoping things can pick back up a bit.

First, the bad news. Well, my depression's been flaring up a lot lately. It's made it hard to work on anything, even the projects I have real responsibilities to. Sales the past month have slumped. My laptop decided to update when it need to which then locked my Microsoft Office programs, which means I had to go in, and pay to unlock it before I could work on anything, even...

Short Story: Wilson Runs the World

So it's been a while since I posted anything on here. I have a few short stories I've been working on though, so I figured it might not be a bad idea to drop them here for people to enjoy. This one is a little more sci-fi horror, but it's something that might really not be that far off. So, without further ado, enjoy!

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Wilson Runs the World

The blue light on the dashboard lit up as Calvin climbed into his car....