!!! Always happy to wind up in the wild.

No setting is more deeply ingrained in horror lit than cemeteries, graveyards, & gravesites. Here’s Horror from the Grave recommendations Day 1 @scribnerbooks.bsky.social @crystallake.bsky.social @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social @quillandcrow.com @journalstone.bsky.social @flatironbooks.bsky.social

Please help my super-talented, awesome friend if you can!

GODDAMN GRAVEYARD ZOMBIES is live on Kindle: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9MVH2NR

I love what Eve has to say here.

My endings sometimes "don't make sense" because the very idea of supernatural entities manifesting in our world is ABSURD. Therefore, often by the end of my books, reality itself is broken.

Happy birthday @lucasmangumhorror.bsky.social! Everybody go buy his Ghoulish publication HAUNTED HEARTS and wish him a good day!

Take 20% off your order at LMHORROR.COM with the code POSTCONBLUES. www.lmhorror.com

Xtro still holds up. It’s an offbeat SF horror from 1982, featuring body horror, psychic phenomenon, and dashes of surrealism. Have you seen it?

I used to justify days I didn't write by saying, "it will get done." Now, I'm at a stage where I can say, "it's already done," and not just come off as a manifestation bro. Like, it is literally already done. I have almost 20 out in the wild.

If you could read just one author's bibliography, who's would you choose?

"If you've ever spent any time in a graveyard, this book was written for you." - Judith Sonnet, author of The Home and Beast of Burden ghoulish.rip/product/haun...

THE FINAL GATE, the book I co-wrote with @wesleysouthard.bsky.social, inspired a death metal EP by fantastic solo act Seven Doors. That EP is out today from Iron Fortress Records, and a BRAND-NEW MASS MARKET EDITION of our book is out to coincide with the music’s release. Links 👇

Eve Harms spitting facts!

Seriously, y'all. These are some of the funniest writers I know. Check this shit out if you're able!

Here's what I've been up to... www.lucasmangum.com/p/goddamn-gr...

Get a sneak peek at my book-in-progress in today's newsletter. www.lucasmangum.com/p/goddamn-gr...

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Big love to friends at the @ghoulish.bsky.social Festival this weekend. I won't make it this year, but I'll be thinking about the locations wood-paneled basement and stained-glass windows.

As of today, the entire‪ SOMETHING WEIRD‬ catalog as been archived for our pleasure. You may peruse it here: www.somethingweirdarchive.com/index.php #somethingweird #exploitationcinema

I did my first 3k-word day in what feels like forever. It felt good, but now I am wiped out.

Sometimes, you just need to wake up at 4 AM and hit the keyboard until life makes sense.

That's a hundred percent it. The man's work exuded a compassion that's rare in horror, surrealism, bizarro ... whatever you want to call it. Love this man's work. Always will.

Reminder that you don't have to support Amazon in order to support me. HAUNTED HEARTS is available at ghoulish.rip/product/haun... BLADEJOB is available at madnessheart.press/product/blad... And signed copies of various titles are available at LMHORROR.com

I just reached 17,000 words on Goddamn Graveyard Zombies. We've got a way to go, but this one's moving at a clip. If you like Return of the Living Dead and the art of Bernie Wrightson, this is gonna be your jam.

When your book outline includes "insert Ed Lee-esque snuff party here," you know you're on the right track.

Get in on this one, y'all.

I'd book Dio and spend the rest of the money on a voice lesson from Ronnie himself.

My mascot now has a name. Find out what it is and read a new tale of nostalgic horror in the latest newsletter: www.lucasmangum.com/p/analog-rit...

Here is everything I have in print (I think?). How many have you read?

I made Malevolent Dark's Top 10! malevolentdark.com/top-10-extre...

I will no longer pretend that LOST isn't a great show. Rewatching it with my partner reminds me that it's about the characters playing off each other, not some by-the-numbers story that wraps up neatly. It's a HUMAN show, not something an algorithm can copy.

Well, it took 7 years (almost to the date!), but we finally hit 100 reviews on the book that started it all. Yes, I'd published before, but this is the one that made people take notice.

I'm 4,000 words into my next wrestling book. Surprisingly, it's not horror - it's dystopian fiction - but I'm hyped AF!

I'm in some great company!!

My son is back into The Lion Guard, my daughter is back into Baby Shark, and I’m outlining another wrestling book. Time is a flat circle.

I found out yesterday that my buddy just sold a screenplay to Amazon. I've known him since high school, and I always knew things would happen for him - legitimately brilliant guy. On one hand, I'm surprised it took so long, but on the other I'm like, "nah, man, time's fake." Happy Monday.

March 1st-2nd: Evansville Horror Con in Evansville, IN (with @texascthulhu.bsky.social ) March 28th-30th: AuthorCon in Williamsburg, VA (with @lucasmangumhorror.bsky.social )

I've got a new pocketbook of horrors up for preorder at the webstore. Grab here if interested: www.lmhorror.com/product/meat...

I've got a new pocketbook of horrors up for preorder at the webstore. Grab here if interested: www.lmhorror.com/product/meat...

The newest story is a tale of revenge. www.lucasmangum.com/p/something-...

My toxic trait is telling everyone that my toxic trait is telling everyone that my toxic trait is telling everyone that my toxic trait is telling everyone that my toxic trait is telling everyone that my toxic trait is telling everyone that my toxic trait is telling everyone that my toxic trait is...

On this Friday the 13th, I'm sharing this essay I wrote last year in response to a scan of an old review for the first FRIDAY THE 13TH film that I found on the Internet Archive. Let me know what you think! www.lucasmangum.com/p/its-okay-i...

All I really want is to listen to vaporwave and dissociate in peace.

"You just have to trust your own madness." - Clive Barker

The best slasher movies, to me, are hangout movies. I was a shy kid and lived vicariously through Jason's victims. They were drinking and screwing and having a good time (until they weren't), while I was reading books and trying to be a good church boy.

This collection of early stories ships within the next few days from www.lmhorror.com/product/engi.... Are all of 'em bangers? Not really. Are some of them cringe? You bet! But if you're a reader who's interested in seeing how far I've come, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better resource.

New story up on the Substack. If you're a fan of my book GODS OF THE DARK WEB, you'll want to read it: www.lucasmangum.com/p/gods-of-th...