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...

Meat, for the beast. There have been some movies, Predator being one of them, in which alien visitors view humans as just livestock. Growing up, we always had a skinned deer carcass hanging in the garage. A bucket was strategically placed...

In my novel "The End of the World" (available here on Amazon), an oligarchy of old men brings back an ancient evil, hoping it will give them immortality. I have always loved the work of illustrators like Wally Wood and...

The latest anthology illustrations for Jeff Strand's story "The Cosmic Mouth That Ate the World' and revised the drawing for Cody Goodfellow's tale Cavity Creeps. Both will be in my anthology The Joke Is on Mankind, which should be out...

Mysteries buried below ancient ruins! Combining my love of the ancient evil in the work of Lovecraft, with the alternative historical work of people like Graham Hancock, (Fingerprints of the Gods is excellent), I made the trip down to...

As a teenager in the '90s, I read Frank Miller and Geof Darrow's Hard Boiled. That image of a guy's head being hollowed out by a punch stuck with me. When I had a similar scene in my debut novel,...

Police Brutality in effect. Going through high school in Fairfax, VA in the late 80s, the police constantly harassed me and my fellow punk rockers. Made-up charges, jail time, and community service, all par for the course. In my novel, The End...

For my horror story Oh The Horror...The Horror,  based around Loch Ness, I wanted to delve into the details to portray it as realistically as possible. on my first trip to Scotland, I took a bus ride up into the...

Space! Wormholes! Alien invasions! As a bonafide science nerd, my girl always tells me that at least, I took all sorts of advanced classes in mathematics and physics, focusing on concepts like the relationship of time and gravity, string theory,...

When I was 16 and living in white trash Northern Florida, I had a best friend named Kevin who lived in a trailer with his single mom. it was buried in the woods, on her uncle's 10 feet of...