It’s not super common to find a cryptid story that has a serious body count—usually cryptids just wander about scaring people, maybe eating a chicken
This year began with a secret: I had just been offered a publishing contract for my first young adult horror/speculative novel, A Misfortune of Lake
Last week while my husband and I were in Copenhagen, we stopped into the Glyptotek on the one pouring-down-rain day we had. The Glytotek has
I get grossed out by scrapple–mostly because I’ve seen it made, and it’s not pretty. That said, who am I to poo-poo (no pun intended)
The graveyard was awash in the sound of happy dogs. I wandered in and perched on a pine-painted bench, waiting. It wasn’t long before a
The Beast of Bray Road has to be nearly a hundred years old—at least that’s when the rumors started. In 1936 came the report of
A few years ago my husband and I visited Alaska in the fall—and spent a few days in Homer. If you’re not familiar with it,
Months ago I saw a call for submissions as something that was being billed as a campfire anthology–but not your typical anthology of short stories.
I love the idea of situating a character with aquaphobia–the fear of water–in Venice, Italy. I visit Venice fairly regularly (since 2017, I’ve found myself
If you’ve seen the 1990 film Tremors, you have insight into this month’s feature cryptid. The Graboid, the fictional sandworm that tears everything apart in
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