For the Halloween season we’ve compiled a list of the top 10 scariest RDSP books. Each provides a different kind of horrible thrill so here’s a handy guide to what type of spooky thrill you can expect. Cursed by Jeremy C. Shipp – Psychological creepiness at its finest: “The harder you struggle, the more you…

The current issue of Rain Taxi has a great review of Blankety Blank. Unfortunately it’s not online yet so I can’t link it but here’s a quote: “If reality is a crutch, D. Harlan Wilson has thrown it away, most likely through the picture window of a McMansion with cheese…This comedy of menace, this spooky…

The InDesign class is going well but sitting and listening all day without email or lj makes me a little crazy. I was thinking today about how the success of promo opportunities like the Horror of Writing workshop and the chats can’t just be measured by how many people showed up. The beauty of these…

Getting some good blurbs in for this one. "There’s a place past all reason, most possibility, and all the jokes I can think of. A place shaped kind of like the human heart. Bradley Sands doesn’t write about this place, but he writes from it, pushing farther into the unguessable with each word, each scene."—Stephen…

Got some great news yesterday from Darren Speegle. Ellen Datlow has recommended his story, Illusions of Amber, for the next Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror! The story was originally published in Underworlds but is also included in Dirge. I guess she still has to make her final decision about which stories will be reprinted and…