Sunday, August 23, 2015

Horror Book Heat Map

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Above is a heat map showing where my books sell in the United States, with a few caveats. The first is that it is where my physical book...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

First Use of Hell's Bells in Literature

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Thomas Moore (1779-1852) On a rainy day last weekend I was sitting around with nothing much to do and I started thinking about the orig...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

Middle Unearthed: The Best Fantasy Short Stories Interview with Andrew Barger

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Interview with Andrew Barger (June 22, 2015) Q:  As one of the ten best fantasy short stories for this period you picked one by Eli...
Saturday, May 2, 2015

Middle Unearthed: The Best Fantasy Short Stories 1800-1849 is Published!

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There has been amazing news in the book publishing world in 2015. It seems that every month we learn of another new book by a famous au...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

On Self-Destructing Books and the Permanency of Art

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Recently, James Patterson announced the sale of his new book that would self-destruct within 24 hours. The details were scant as to how...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

"The Field of Terror" Scary Short Story by Baron Friedrich de la Motte Fouqae

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Baron Friedrich Heinrich Karl De la Motte Fouquâe (1777-1843) In 1827 the German author Baron Friedrich la Motte Fouquae published a f...
Friday, November 28, 2014

Scary Way the Polish Buried People to Prevent Vampires

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(NEWSER) – To make sure certain people didn't rise from the grave to feast on the living, villagers in 17th- and 18th-century Poland...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

Get a scary 15% off my equally scary books at Barnes & Noble

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Get a scary 15% off my books through Sunday, October 26th. Online use coupon code: JP4KGWP3JPAGF  A best bet for Halloween is  6a66le: Th...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

"Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination" at the British Library

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The British Library is doing what hundreds of other libraries around the world should be doing this time of year. It is hosting "Ter...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

Did Edgar Allan Poe Have a Favorite Ghost Story?

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Poe was a connoisseur of the supernatural. As the author of  Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life , I am sometimes ask...