DC Comics fans also know Superman’s costume was made of the invulnerable blankets from Krypton he was wrapped in in his capsule. Ma Kent unraveled ‘em and made the suit and cape, and Superbaby Clark severed threads as needed with heat vision. That’s how it REALLY happened.

I guess it’s worth noting what DC Comics fans already knew; the new Supergirl film indirectly settles the earring issue in the first 4 minutes. She obviously got her ears pierced on a planet with a red sun.

I'm on the second floor of a vacant house that may have ghosts, or their might be more behind the strange phenomena that's been reported at the old mansion and on its grounds. What are you writing today?

If you haven’t seen her in my feed before, meet my cat Zoë, the culprit when strange sounds in the night occur and when remembered text converts Zor to Zoe. Don’t even get me started about my diaeresis wars.

Supergirl is maybe a little Guardians of the Galaxy with Kara Zoe-El in it, with a dash of Furiosa, but I found it enjoyable. Good to have it atypical and work its way to Supergirl. Maybe coulda used a little more Lobo. Thought Milly Alcock was great.

I’m working to help my new novel, A Disturbance of Shadows, unseat the re-issue of my vintage novel GNELFS as my most popular title. If you’re inclined to check it out, it’s at your favorite online retailer! #horror #cosmichorror books2read.com/disturbanceo...

Someone asked me on FB where to watch Dark Shadows, and I realized I was sounding like a repairman with my answer: "On Tubi, but you need to watch for the Dark Shadows: The Beginning title because you're gonna want to get that Phoenix arc that precedes the arrival of Barnabas...

Vintage paperbacks from my early reading life. I first read Lawrence Block in his Writer's Digest column and happened to pick up an Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine around the same time with his fab story "A Candle for the Bag Lady." One book led to another.

If you’re like me, you ask yourself: Who’s right about my work? Those who tell me they like it? Or the millions on the planet who are indifferent?

I've probably become best known for Gnelfs, especially in recent years. It's been reissued with Paperbacks from Hell-era cover art. In Gnelfs, there's a mention of the historical character Matthew Laird, a Crowley acolyte. His legacy becomes important in my newest novel, A Disturbance of Shadows.

Watching this movie Undertone. Subtle but pretty creepy. Really effective with surround sound.

We are getting a LOT of Sabrina The Teenage Witch this fall, as Wicked Horror's @sidneyw.bsky.social Williams reports! @oni-press.bsky.social www.wickedhorror.com/horror-news/...

Hey, that’s live!

Alleged vandals aside, does Trump expect supporters to accept National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration information that fertilizer incursions cause algae but not NOAA information on climate change? And to what degree did DOGE cuts to NOAA cause reflecting pool woes? 🧐

Two men enter. One man leaves and insults the former First Lady.

I don’t get attacked often, but when I do, they go straight for suggesting I’m delicate and not macho, in less polite terms. Hey, I may have chosen a life of the mind, but I work out.

New installment of my vintage paperbacks column is live now!

Nate Bargatze’s rep said the comedian has fans on both sides of the aisle. Uh, let me stop you right there. It might be time to reassess.

Check out my article previewing the cover art for the EC Comics Treasury of Terror Vol. 1 over at Wicked Horror.

Noticed a fawn alone in our back yard this afternoon for a while and was worried, but its mom showed back up. Now I’m seeing several posts in my feed from people with similar concerns. Found this.

“It is not the government’s place to tell us what we can read.” Maggie Tokuda-Hall President, Authors Against Book Bans #RiseUpSpeakOut

Thank you President Obama. 🙏 I appreciate your honesty, intelligence, dignity, integrity, humility & humor. 👍 Looking forward to the opening of your Presidential Center this week! 👀 Wishing you & your family all the best & continued success, Mar🐫

Fonda: In the face of what’s happening, we need our industry to be unified, activated, and unwilling to engage in anticipatory obedience. We stand together in defense of our right to free expression. If they come for one of us, by God, they come for all of us.

Since those Doc Savage books seemed to be of interest and generated some conversation, here are a couple of editions of Quest of Qui and a Phantom City, showing Doc in different climes. Those are July 1976 Bantam re-issues with $1.25 cover price. James Bama covers on the Bantams.

Actually, Dent wrote The Red Terrors. Now, he may have fixed up a Davis manuscript, but as a semi-sequel to his Mystery Under the Sea, it was probably Dent. Plus, the manuscript has his name on it...

My cat Zoë watches her favorite show. “Hey, I think Bennie’s in this episode.” #caturday

I’ve been sifting through my paperback reissues of pulp novels of late. Fans know Lester Dent actually wrote Doc Savage under the Kenneth Robeson “house name,” mostly. But details are tricky. Dent wrote The Evil Gnome on the left. The Red Terrors on the right was written by Harold A. Davis.

I was very young, but I suddenly recall how late we had to sit up to see the first moon landing.

Scaffolding is getting close to those letters at the Kennedy Center! www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...

Wow, they’re playing hardball with this tornado event on #BeyondtheGates. I didn’t expect his much excitement this soon after the break up of the blood ring.

Get an advance look Heartbreak Manor from 30 Days of Night and October Faction creators.

Here’s hoping The Daily Show picks up on Virginia House Rep. Rob Wittman’s fake phone call to avoid a reporter.

That must feel SO good!

In replying to a friend on my Scott Pelley post on Facebook, I was reminded of a panel I attended at AWP when it was in DC. 1/6

I work on edits to a new novelette therefore I am.

"Who says that ____ must lead to _____" #mpprompt #WhoSays #TheCenter #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetryprompt @malformed-poetry.bsky.social @blueskypoetry.bsky.social

I'm not going to be able to leave my house a few days this week due to street repaving, unless, ironically, I park my car on a parkway and walk to it. Gonna just risk it. Nothing bad ever happened in a setting where people were isolated and the road was out. #horrormovietropes

You remember that ad where Kevin Hart’s trying to choose éclairs, and he finally goes: “Lemme get ‘em all?” Just came from a candidate forum, Democrat contenders for Virginia 1st U.S. House seat, and that’s how I felt. Such great candidates and ideas.

ME: (Keeps multiple documents open--novel-in-progress, notes document, short story in progress, reused text document etc. etc.). MS-Word: Please close and restart to implement update.

Went to see Backrooms, and boy am I glad I made it out. Unsettling with some genuine chills.

RIP, Giles. 😥

If you're like me, you learned of British TV's "Late Night Horror" via news of the discovery of the believed-lost tape of Richard Matheson's "No Such Thing As a Vampire" adaptation. And you watched the previously re-discovered "Corpse Can't Play" episode on YouTube. 1/2

Nick Bilton is the guy most likely to get booed if asked to give a commencement speech at a J school.

There are too many villains in our lives right now And no sign of Batman or Daredevil.

I posed a few questions for Mel Gillman about the new Sapphic-themed graphic novel The Goblin Throne. That’s live at Wicked Horror today! 1/2

Pelly fired.

Some good notes on Scott Pelley’s confrontation. “Authoritarianism exploits politesse. The corrupter counts on the existing establishment normalizing her actions, hoping that they can work with her… Pelley would have none of it. He kept going.”

Well, I had planned to attend Stokercon, but I’m a little under the weather so I’m going to have to miss it.

The philosophical Ship of Theseus question asks if all the parts have been changed, is it still the Ship of Theseus? If Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton replace all of the producers and correspondents, 60 Minutes will no longer be 60 Minutes. No question.