Matthew Cheney

obituaries

Songs and Sirens: Notes on David Lynch (1946-2025)

“Please remember — you are dealing with the human form.” Those are the first lines of dialogue spoken in a David Lynch film, his 1968 short “The Alphabet”. * While working on Blue Velvet, David Lynch tried desperately to get the rights to This Mortal Coil’s then-recent version of Tim […]

Richard Bowes Remembrance at Uncanny Magazine

Uncanny magazine has now posted a collection of remembrances of the wonderful Richard Bowes written by Christopher Barzak, Sam J. Miller, Matthew Kressel, and myself. Rick was someone I knew first as a writer, then as a person, and he became a friend and mentor. My story “Killing Fairies” was […]