Dead Love: Party Time/B...

Party time, ghoulz and naughty boyz! The date is set for the first DEAD LOVE book launch-ghoulfest-zombie jamboree. This will be a very different kind of bookstore event. In a addition to a reading by DEAD LOVE author, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, there’ll be food and drink, fun,...

A.K.A. Boris Karloff

You really can’t talk about classic horror without mentioning Boris Karloff. Actually, the real name of the English actor born in 1887 was William H. Pratt. Young Pratt was Anglo-Indian … his aunt was Anna Leonowens, the woman whose tales of the Siamese court were behind The...

Dead Love: Creep

Another message from Clément. I keep finding these with little notes addressed to me: “Be Mine,” “What a Ghoul Wants,” “How He Fell for You,” “Love and Death.” Clément likes this song and no wonder—he could have written it. But he...

Dead Love is For the Bi...

Last night amid the tinkle of glassware being banged on by knives by my lusty companions, I was asked to reveal my favorite film of all time. Big surprise that it is a classic horror film. The Birds. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Tippie Hedren, it was actually taken from the...

Dead Love: Dance of Dea...

Death leads in this dance, popular in the Middle Ages when people were dying like rats; with rats; oh, rats! It was introduced in allegorical form in 14th Century religious texts as a warning or maybe a whistle through the pervading darkness. Imagine the shake, rattle and pop as all...