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POETRY
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"Bodega Bay, 2004", A Sea of Alone: Poems for Alfred Hitchcock
COLUMNS
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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
- My essay "The Walking Dead and The Dance of Death" appears in the BenBella book The Triumph of The Walking Dead, edited by James Lowder.
- A guest post at Jess Resides Here on "Five Things You May Not Know About L.A."
- Here's one at Working for the Mandroid on the zombies in Monsters of L.A..
- This one at Passion for Novels talks a little about the differences between writing novels and short stories.
- "Horror and Terror, Slashers and Stumps" is a four-part discussion about the state of modern horror between myself, Christopher Conlon, Kurt Newton and Norman Prentiss
- "How I Surprised Myself and Became a Halloween Expert", guest blog for Benjamin Kane Ethridge
- "Halloween Misconceptions", at Kealan Patrick Burke's blog
- Butcher Knives and Body Counts.
- Some book reviews for The Black Glove: Rio Youers' End Times, Rocky Wood and Glenn Chadbourne's Horrors!, Andy Duncan's The Night Cache, Joel Lane's Black Country, and Alison Moore's When the Door Closed, It Was Dark
- My article "Focus! How Writers Can Improve Their Productivity" is free to read at the Cemetery Dance Writers Corner.
- "Pirates! Or, How to Protect Your Intellectual Property on the High Seas of the Internet" is free online at HWA's site
- My article on horror screenwriting appears in WRITERS WORKSHOP OF HORROR (Woodland Press, 2009)
- "Smart Broads and Tough Guys: The Strange World of Vintage Paperbacks", published in the July 2008 issue of Clarkesworld.
- "Acts of Darkness: Writing Horror for the Small Stage", ON WRITING HORROR, published by the Horror Writers Association and Writers Digest
- "Screamplays! Writing the Horror Film", four-part series on writing horror screenplays, originally written for the HWA's newsletter
- "Have Special Effects Killed Horror?", Horror #7
- Movie reviews, Horror, various from 1997-1999 (also served as Contributing Editor for Horror during this time)
- Currently ongoing: "Throwdown" movie reviews (with Michael Marano), Chizine.com

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:
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