Arthur Machen’s short story “The White People” remains a masterpiece and perhaps his most difficult work of fiction — what Absalom, Absalom! is for Faulkner, what Finnegans
I thought I might share some thoughts on my new story “The Testament of a Puppeteer”, which I posted to my website yesterday. Today seems
On my website, I’ve now posted a new horror story, “The Testament of the Puppeteer”, a grotesque revenge comedy (though without many laughs). It’s available
This week, I’ve been attending the annual Modern Language Association Convention, which this year is in Philadelphia. On Saturday, January 6, I was a member of
Ends and beginnings. I have no sense of 2023 as a particular thing, and I expect in the future that I will think back to
In April 2024, Lethe Press will publish a new horror novella I wrote, Changes in the Land. The paperback is now available for pre-order from
The most famous line in Harold Pinter’s script for the 1971 film The Go-Between is also the most famous line from the L.P. Hartley novel it adapted —
Harry Houdini began his 1924 book A Magician Among the Spirits (likely written for him by his assistant Oscar Teale) with a confession: From my early
This is the text of a paper I presented at the Modernist Studies Association annual conference, which this year took place in Brooklyn, New York,
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