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“Big Book of Ghost Stories” Available for Pre-Order

August 13, 2012 News

The Big Book of Ghost Stories is due out next month and is now available for pre-orders at the Amazon link. The huge anthology, published by Vintage and edited by Otto Penzler, will include over a thousand pages of ghost stories ranging from classics by Rudyard Kipling and H.P. Lovecraft to more obscure offerings from [...]

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“Bury The Dead” Hellhounds

November 28, 2011 Uncategorized

My ghost story screenplay “Bury The Dead,” under option to ShoulderHill Entertainment, is taking longer to get off the ground than I’d hoped, but I still have my fingers crossed. In what I will choose to take as a positive sign, ShoulderHill’s Steven Adair, who is planning to direct the film, continues to work on [...]

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Great Ghosts for Halloween

October 17, 2011 Books

  As readers of my blog will know, I am a huge ghost story fan.  But I only recently discovered this wonderful series from the British publisher Wordsworth books.  Their Mystery and the Supernatural line includes such hard to find stuff as a collection by Oliver Onions—the funny-named author of the classic ghost novella “The [...]

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The Advent Reunion, Parts 4 & 5

December 23, 2010 Culture

Here’s the ending of my Christmas ghost story. The previous parts were posted over the last two days. You can get a printed version in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.

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The Advent Reunion, Part 3

December 22, 2010 Culture

Parts one and two of my Christmas ghost story were posted yesterday, here’s part three with the concluding two parts tomorrow:

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Ten Favorite Ghost Movies

October 4, 2010 Culture

Okay, it’s October, Halloween’s coming, I love ghost stories, here’s a list of ten of my favorite ghost movies.  The list rules:  movie has to be about ghosts, not zombies or vampires or something; and it has to be creepy – no whimsy or love stories like The Ghost & Mrs. Muir or A Christmas [...]

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