Persona Cracked is a series that explores the intersection of artists, their work, and social media. My next guest, Brian Asman, is a writer, actor, director, and producer whose stories often blur the line between horror and humor. He is… Read More ›
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Persona Cracked: Lucy Leitner
Persona Cracked is a series that explores the intersection of artists, their work, and social media. My next guest, Lucy Leitner, is author of three novels and writer of transgressive fiction whose work contains strong elements of horror and satire…. Read More ›
Love is a Cosmic Telephone Booth
Review: We Can Never Go Back Daron Kappauff, 30 pages I don’t read much horror. I commute on the train to and from downtown L.A., so I already know about hell and how dark, scary, and violent the world can… Read More ›
The Parlor Tricks of Civilization as Relayed by a Mad Clerk in a Soda Shop
Listen up, ya hopefuls, have I a mouthful to chew. Find yourselves mistaken, once? Twice? Well, consider this, too … If your tongue is black for candy, if it lashes out for reasons hunger can’t explain, pay attention greedily my… Read More ›
Rampage leaves splattered victims, questions in wake of violence
PITTSBURGH – After an extreme dieter ran over several overweight pedestrians this week, members of this shocked community wondered if there were any connection between the victims, besides obesity. “It just doesn’t make sense,” said Tina Ward, 35, a dog… Read More ›
Dark tale hides shimmer of hope
Review: The Last Shimmer, Sage Hyatt Not Your Father’s Bedtime Stories, 20 pages Editing “The Last Shimmer” with Sage was such a fun and rewarding project. As her father, I am proud of her for many reasons, but especially because… Read More ›
Brain-damaged hockey star resists The People’s justice
Book Review: Outrage Level 10, Lucy Leitner Necro Publications, 328 pages Horror, in my opinion, takes itself too seriously. In the non-stop, adrenaline-pounding quest to put readers on edge, the genre often fails to move beyond its time-honored tropes around… Read More ›
Shirking duty leads deputy to rosy hell of disappointment
Book Review: Captain Clive’s Dreamworld Jon Bassoff, Eraserhead Press, 234 pages Early in Deputy Sam Hardy’s adulthood, he marries a woman he loves, they have a daughter they are too poor to support, so they give her up for adoption…. Read More ›
There’s no business like show business
Book Review: Out of Frame Anthologies Jack Lothian, S.J. Sims, Rhiannon Robertson, Sarah Witt Oneiric Roper, John Morgan Risner, 179 pages Living in Los Angeles, I witness no shortage of artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, and other creatives whose eccentric tendencies and… Read More ›