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There Be Monsters: Deep Down Is Out Now — 13 Stories About What Waits Below
There Be Monsters: Deep Down is available today on Amazon in Kindle ebook and 6×9 paperback — the second full collection in the There Be Monsters series. Thirteen stories. One direction: down. Into water, into rock, into the caves and drowned places built to keep people out, and into the parts of a person their… Read more →
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It Walks by Night (Annotated) Is Live — Grimbard Classics of Horror No. 2
It Walks by Night is out now in an annotated Grimbard Press edition, available today on Amazon in ebook and paperback. John Dickson Carr’s 1930 locked-room horror-mystery just entered the U.S. public domain on January 1, 2026. Grimbard Press is the first imprint to reissue it with new editorial material built specifically for horror readers,… Read more →
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The Craft of “Don’t Do X”: Why Rules Are the Most Powerful Tool in Folk Horror
Three rules. That’s all the setup my story “Rabbit Season” needed. Bank the fire before you sleep. Don’t drink the spring water in May. Don’t shoot the white ones in winter. And underneath: DON’T BRING IT HOME. 1903. By the time a reader reaches the actual horror in that story, they’ve already done most of… Read more →
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The Mothman and the Bridge That Fell
Forty-six people died when the Silver Bridge collapsed on December 15, 1967. It was the evening rush hour in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The bridge connected the town to Gallipolis, Ohio, across the Ohio River. A single corroded eyebar — one link in a suspension chain — failed first. The rest followed in under a… Read more →
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What Visiting Haunted Places Actually Feels Like
My partner and I have a tradition when we travel. Before we book anything, we look up what died there. Not morbidly — or not only morbidly. It’s more that the historical weight of a place interests us, and that weight is usually attached to the bad things. The flood. The fire. The crime that… Read more →
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Why Appalachian Horror Hits Different
There’s a scene I keep coming back to, not from any book or film, but from a conversation I had with an older man at a ghost tour in western North Carolina a few years back. He’d lived in the same holler his whole life. Someone on the tour asked him if he believed in… Read more →
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The Skinwalker: What the Navajo Legend Actually Warns Us About
The version of the Skinwalker that lives on Reddit is a bipedal thing that chases cars on desert highways. A speed demon. Something you catch at the edge of your headlights doing something no human body should be able to do — running alongside you at seventy miles an hour, or crouched where it shouldn’t… Read more →
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What Horror Knows About Fathers That Hallmark Never Will
Father’s Day is a greeting card holiday pretending to be a human one. The cards show men grilling. Men fishing. Men asleep in recliners with the game on. The language is warm and rounded and careful, the way language gets when people are trying not to say the complicated thing. Best dad ever. My hero.… Read more →