And The Winner Is…
Congratulations, Cassandra Pearson! Cassandra has won her name in The Return Man! Thank you deeply to everyone who entered — it was so much fun reading your entries. When I have a little more time,...
View ArticleReturn Man 2
Return Man 2. No, it’s not a sequel to my novel, The Return Man. It’s the online ESPN sports game you’ve probably noticed if you’ve ever Googled your way to this site by searching “return man.”...
View Article6 Stories That Scarred Me
Some horror stories don’t just scare you; they scar you. You read them, let them into your head, and they wreck up the place; with sharp claws they scratch awful images into your cerebral cortex, like...
View ArticleZombie Dreamin’
Almost every night when I was twelve, I was attacked — by zombie nightmares. I’d seen my first zombie movie that year, Return of the Living Dead, and it terrorized my dream-world; in this alternate...
View ArticleFree Fiction: The Owner’s Guide to Home Repair
A few readers have asked if I’ve written anything besides THE RETURN MAN. The answer is “yes,” and just for fun, I thought I’d post some of my short horror fiction here on this blog for anyone who...
View ArticleComic Book Logic For Zombies
I love comic books. And to love comic books, sometimes you have to throw real-world logic out the window. A megadose of gamma rays turns Bruce Banner into the Hulk? A cosmic space storm transforms four...
View ArticleAll Aboard the Zombie Train
Do you remember your first encounter with a zombie? Mine was Return of the Living Dead — and wow, I haven’t been the same since. It happened on a dismal, rainy night in New Jersey, the summer after...
View ArticleCareful What You Wish For
As a genre, horror has often tapped into the Zeitgeist (the spirit of the times, appropriately), resonating with each era’s societal fears. In the 50s, with potential nuclear war hanging over our heads...
View ArticleFresh Zombies for Sale
Many nights as I sat down to write THE RETURN MAN, I was joined by a little imaginary kid in my head; he wore pajamas and wanted a bedtime tale. Tell that story, Dad — you know the one! Yeah, my...
View ArticleOrigin of (Undead) Species
I wonder if Charles Darwin was a zombie fan. Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, and you’re probably aware of the resulting, yet-to-be-settled battle between Evolutionists and...
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