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Or click here to read my four-part article on horror screenwriting, reprinted from the HWA Newsletter

To read some writings on Asian cinema click here

POETRY

  • "Bodega Bay, 2004", A Sea of Alone: Poems for Alfred Hitchcock

COLUMNS

  • My column on antiquarian bookselling, "From Dusty Shelves", is now running at Horror World
  • My column on Asian horror, "The East is Red", is now running at The Black Glove (and older columns can be found at The East is Red Blog)
  • "The Small Scream", Horror, regular column ran from 1997-1999 (television reviews)

ARTICLES & REVIEWS

INTERVIEWS BY ME:

INTERVIEWS WITH ME:

MISCELLANEOUS APPEARANCES

  • Wall Street Journal article on Halloween with quotes from me
  • Publishers Weekly article on used bookselling that interviewed me
  • I provided the "Afterword" for Michael Louis Calvillo's splended novel AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT (Bad Moon Books, 2009)
  • My lists on "Top Ten Asian Horror Movies" and "Five Scary Traditional Halloween Stories" appear in BOOK OF LISTS: HORROR, edited by Scott Bradley, Del Howison and Amy Wallace. You can read an expanded version of the "Halloween Stories" list at scribd.com
  • Here's a zombie haiku at zombie poet laureate Ryan Mecum's site (scroll to the bottom)
  • "Growing Man" from FRAMED: A GALLERY OF DARK DELICACIES, from Dark Delicacies
  • The Letter "H" in THE ALTRUISTIC ALPHABET, from Dark Delicacies
  • THE TIGER GARDEN: A BOOK OF WRITERS' DREAMS Note: Proceeds from the sales of this fascinating book went to Amnesty International.
  • The 1996 Horror Writers Calendar
  • "The Black Death Martini", Conjuring Dark Delicacies
  • Here I am from the documentary on Halloween history that's found on the Blu-ray edition of the movie Trick 'R Treat: