Pulp adventure magazines of those long-gone days! Does anyone remember those old pulp magazines? The Shadow, Doc Savage, and Weird Tales? They were the hot thing on newsstands before comic books, and always featured heavily illustrated stories. The first Batman is a...

Illustrations for the new anthology The Joke is on Mankind. I finished the last 2 illustrations for my new anthology of cosmic horror stories, "The Joke is on Mankind." These are for Ryan C. Thomas's "Earl of Imprudence" and Patrick...

War in Space! Like many kids in my era, I wanted to be an astronaut growing up! When I realized they were just the test dummies for the space program, I wanted to be a rocket scientist. Taking advanced calculus, I...

Long Forgotten. The rear cover for my anthology novel "The Never Dead". Oil on wood, 14" by 16". I pictured this as the gate to the long-buried remains of R'yleh, the ancient city of the Elder gods. If you want to get...

I lived for a few years near Dupont Circle in Washington, DC. When D.C. was the murder capital of the US and Marrion Barry was the major (the same guy caught smoking crack with a hooker in a hotel...

Christmas is Cancelled. I always viewed the character of Santa as being highly questionable. For my short story "Christmas is Cancelled", I imagined him as this solitary, archaic figure who just does what he is always required come Christmas season. As...

The horrors of forsaken land. When I was in elementary school, my Dad was attending West Point, and we lived in a rural military neighborhood, occupying an old, two-story Victorian-style house. It was atop a hill, next to a...

The Key Bridge. As a teenage punk rocker, I crossed the Key Bridge from the affluent buildings of Virginia into the downtown Georgetown of Washington, DC. The dichotomy between the two could not be clearer. Virginia was ordered, civilized, and very...

Alien Invasion! Those monotonous rows of townhouses in the suburbs always unnerved me and seemed to harbour some hidden evil. Maybe it's a psychological thing, tied into the attitudes of most of their occupants (who tormented me in my punk...

Cowboys versus Aliens! I finished the illustration that will accompany my story for Merrill David's upcoming anthology of western horror, "Tumble Bleed." The October horror/writer/artist/monster makeup convention, Dead Man's Hand, will also be using the image. Dicey Grenor and Tommy...