My dad had us watch war movies from a very young age, but I remember him constantly picking them apart. He had been in every war since Vietnam, and he enjoyed the Hollywood take, but he always critiqued the...

For this third illustration in my story "Christmas is Cancelled", I wanted to bring to life riding in a truck, upstate, during a heavy snowfall. I spent 3 years in Buffalo, and remember it well. The ice crusting on...

I lived in Washington, DC in the early '90s, and crime was out of hand. It was the murder capital of the US, the mayor was caught on tape, smoking crack with a hooker. His famous line was "Bitch...

The abandoned remnants of large commercial buildings always seem to host the ghostly remnants of the crowd that used to occupy them. I remember when I lived (as a kid) in white trash-northern Florida, an overgrown lot nearby my...

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...