As a huge Lovecraft fan, I never pass up the opportunity to inject some of his horror cosmology whenever possible. All of my novels are heavily illustrated, and this is for my cosmic horror anthology "The Never Dead". Appearing near the...

Extraneous. Black Static Magazine out of the UK, formerly titled "The Third Alternative" and relaunched in 2007, first contacted me in 2011 to illustrate one of their stories. Entitled Extraneous, I used the old school method of elaborate coloring (before...

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...

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...

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...

The government in hot pursuit! I first got the bug to rebuild trucks when, as a teenage punk rocker living in a bad neighborhood in DC, I got a small settlement from an accident, and used it to buy a...

Monica was always my biggest fan and greatest supporter. I make sure to thank her in every book I release. She died in 2007 in a hit-and-run, and the NYPD mangled the investigation (most likely because she was a...

The Great State of Texas. I remember one rainstorm so intense, I couldn't even see the sides of the road. It was spring, I lived in Virginia then, and the watery deluge was so intense I didn't know where I...