For those of us born in the recent past, aka the 70’s, Vincent Price has always seemed like an iconic has-been. A frequent face on afternoon matinees, late night movies, and in magazines, and of course the voice of Thriller’s chilling finale, Price had been synonymous with horror royalty. That wasn’t always the case for […]
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Phantasm was a movie that was on my to-watch list for literally decades. From the genesis of my horror movie fandom I have seen images of the Tall Man and the Screamer ball, but had no idea what the movie was about. As time progressed I continued to see it on lists, but the fandom […]
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Dracula 3D – This Movie Does Not Exist
Dracula 3d is a 2013 movie. Allegedly. I watched it back in 2013. Allegedly. To this day I still could not tell you how I discovered Dracula 3D. I don’t believe anyone told me about it because in 2013, people genuinely cared for one another. I also don’t believe I found it through a website […]
Originally published November 15, 2016 on horror-writers.com (This post contains massive spoilers for Silent Hill.) Flashback, 1999: I was working as an assistant manager at Blockbuster, diligently prepping new games for rental, when bright red lettering caught my eye on one of the cases. “SILENT HILL” was written above a gray and white picture of […]
Dusty went to Lexington Comic Con, walked the floor, had some laughs and may-or-may-not have been escorted off the premises
I’m walking in the woods. There’s no one around, and it’s 2005 so I don’t have a cellphone. Out of the corner of my eye, I spot him – Edgar Allan Poe. To his left a raven flaps its wings and quoths its lore of some sad sorrow nevermore. To his right, the ghost of […]
Before I was aware of International Women’s Day and the women’s rights movement, the 8th of March meant only one thing to me. My gran’s birthday. Grandma Montse was the matriarch of our family and the reason I became a horror writer. She never learnt to read nor write but was a gifted storyteller that […]
So, what about horror specifically made you think ‘This is the genre I want to make films in’? When I was a little kid (about 4 or 5) I used to stealthily watch scary movies from behind the couch, which is pretty creepy on its own. My older brother and cousins would watch scary movies […]
You seem to write pretty prolifically, do you have any tips or tricks you can share with us on how to turn over stories so quickly? Writing is half creativity, half discipline. In order to do it regularly, you have to turn it into a habit. Sometimes that means forcing yourself when you don’t want […]
How long have you been writing for? I’ve been writing ever since I can remember. When I was a kid, I mostly wrote fantasy imitative of Lloyd Alexander’s Prydain Chronicles and Susan Cooper’s Dark Is Rising series, then detective fiction when I became obsessed with Agatha Christie. I didn’t begin to seriously commit myself to […]