Kindred

Kindred

Octavia Butler once described her supernatural, time-traveling neo-slave narrative Kindred as “a grim fantasy”. It’s hard to imagine any realistic treatment of slave life in the antebellum South as being anything but tremendously grim. The novel is most often seen as...
The Ballad of Black Tom

The Ballad of Black Tom

As a person who’s attempting to write thoughtful, modern weird fiction, I found The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle to be a pure delight to read. Go read this one, folks! It’s a fabulous novella. The narrative is very much in a dialog with (and functions...
Scary Out There and Rot & Ruin

Scary Out There and Rot & Ruin

This week, Simon & Schuster released Scary Out There, a new YA horror anthology edited by Jonathan Maberry. It features three new poems from me and stories by writers such as RL Stine, Kendare Blake, Zac Brewer, Ellen Hopkins, Nancy Holder, Cherie Priest, Tim...
New (and Old) Lovecraftian Fiction

New (and Old) Lovecraftian Fiction

Dark Regions Press is running an Indiegogo campaign to publish three new books, and I’m in two of them. My story “The Gentleman Caller” is in Return of the Old Ones edited by Brian M. Sammons and my story “Executive Functions” is in You,...