Today’s short story you absolutely ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY have to read: “Better You Believe,” by Carole Johnstone, first published in HORROR LIBRARY VOLUME 6, author and publication both previously unknown to me. It is the opening story of Ellen Datlow’s THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR VOL 10, first tale I’ve read in that collection. The […]
Originally published on Facebook 27 March 2017. I value great horror fiction as much as I value great science fiction, and in some ways even more, in large part because it functions as science fiction’s reciprocal complement. The subject, at core, is humanity. Horror diagnoses the problem. At its best, science fiction provides the prescription. […]
Originally Published on Facebook 20 December 2016. A quarter of a century ago, one of the first editors to buy my fiction noted that my recent submissions had been feeling awfully “safe” — more professional, but timid, in a way my earliest stories had not been. The question: “When you wrote those first stories, were […]
