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Me on the Mysterious Podcast

April 7, 2013 Books

Here’s a new chat with mystery maestro Otto Penzler and me, along with colleagues Gary Phillips and Jim Fusilli on the Mysterious Podcast. The subject: my latest thriller for adults, A Killer in the Wind.

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“Advent Reunion” In List of Scariest Ghost Stories

October 28, 2012 Books

  In time for Halloween — and to promote his Big Book of Ghost Stories — editor Otto Penzler has listed his pick for the fourteen scariest ghost stories. I’m proud to say my own “Advent Reunion,” which is included in the big book, makes the grade. This is all the more pleasant for a [...]

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Big Book of Ghost Stories Now On Sale

September 23, 2012 News

The Big Book of Ghost Stories — a massive collection from Black Lizard — is now available at Amazon. The cover copy describes the anthology this way: “Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon. These spectral stories span more than [...]

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Boo!

August 13, 2012 Books

Over in the news section you can read about the imminent publication of The Big Book of Ghost Stories, a new and massive ghost story anthology from the great and powerful editor Otto Penzler. It includes my own short story The Advent Reunion, which began as a personal experiment in online video storytelling. Here’s a look [...]

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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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Andrew to Celebrate Otto Penzler’s Twilight Years

July 1, 2012 News

Andrew will be traveling to New York next week for a gala celebration of the birthday of Otto Penzler. Penzler will be turning 137, breaking the age record for aggravating curmudgeons of 136, set by himself. Penzler, who owns and operates the Mysterious Bookshop on Warren Street in Manhattan, is widely considered to be the [...]

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Andrew Commits to “Kwik Krimes”

March 26, 2012 News

Andrew has taken on the challenge of writing a full-fledged crime story in under a thousand words (about three pages) for an upcoming anthology to be entitled Kwik Krimes. All in all, the anthology will include 101 of these short-short crime stories.  The collection will be edited by Otto Penzler and will be published by [...]

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New Thriller for Adults Due Next January

January 23, 2012 News

Andrew’s new publisher Grove/Atlantic will bring out his latest thriller for adults one year from now, January 2013. The book, which Andrew completed at the end of last year, will be published under the auspices of Otto Penzler’s Mysterious Press imprint. The imprint has already published novels by Joyce Carol Oates and Thomas H. Cook. [...]

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New Ghost Anthology Scheduled

December 19, 2011 News

Vintage Original has scheduled the publication of its new anthology, The Big Book of Ghost Stories, edited by Otto Penzler, for September of 2012. The book will include Andrew’s popular Christmas ghost story “The Advent Reunion.” The story began its life as a series of homemade videos released online with support from Andrew Breitbart’s Big [...]

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Andrew’s “Assassin” Coming In Spanish

April 5, 2011 News

Andrew’s first and only spy story, “Sleeping With My Assassin,” will soon be out in Spanish translation for the Mexican and South American market.  Plata Negra publishers will publish Otto Penzler’s collection “Agents of Treason” as “Agentes de la Traicion,” come May 15.  The collection is billed as the first ever anthology of original spy [...]

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