I have three additional events to add to my October schedule which I would like to invite you to participate in my darklings! All of the below events will take place within the next week and half in Austin, Texas as part of the SCARE for a CURE charity haunted house promotion. I hope you [...]

Join The Austin Chronicle, BookPeople, and 107.1 KGSR for the Seventeenth Annual Short Story Contest Reception! The winners of the Seventeenth Annual Austin Chronicle Short Story contest will be announced at BookPeople at 7pm on Wednesday, February 11. You are invited to hear the first-, second-, and third- place winners read their short stories at [...]

Beware: Bigfoot Ahead The homegrown horror of The Wild Man of the Navidad The Austin Chronicle | September 19, 2008 BY JOE O’CONNELL The novice in search of enlightenment studies at the feet of the master. The wannabe horror filmmaker goes to Kim Henkel. That was exactly the path that led Austin’s Duane Graves and [...]

Columnist Wayne Allen Brenner wrote a brilliant article for The Austin Chronicle recently on the science fiction genre known as Steampunk. I highly suggest checking it out while it’s still online: “We’re living in science fiction,” people like to say. They wave a hand at the array of laptop computers crowding shaky tables in a [...]