Received my contributor’s copy of the new Kolchak Anthology: Eras, published by @monstrousverse.bsky.social and edited by @jamesaquilone.bsky.social . 13 tales of Carl’s adventures from WWII-the 1990’s. Coming 1/27/26 to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and anywhere good books are sold.

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My pal @cheriepriest.com ‘s second Eden Moore novel, the sequel to Four and Twenty Black Birds, is on sale. Get it now! www.amazon.com/Wings-Kingdo...

Here, have something adorable this morning.

I just read Kant’s quote “not every extravagance of opinion deserves the trouble of a careful refutation.” and sweet fuck the man would absolutely hate the Internet.

Tina and I visited the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Libray this morning. I got type in a replica of Vonnegut’s Barnstable, Massachusetts office. www.kvml.org

Conservative talking heads: The new Superman movie is too woke about immigrants and is clearly an unfair critique of Trump's immigration policies. Superman was never meant to be that political. Superman in the 1950's:

January, 2026: in a bookstore near you: from James Aquilone & Monstrous Books: The paperback edition of "Kolchak Eras", collecting prose stories (including my "Wolf's Clothing" in which Carl hunts the Georgia Werewolf) covering Carl's life. As Carl said: "Kolchak's coming back in style!"

Gonna leave this here, too:

Just gonna leave this here:

One of our students suffered an unthinkable tragedy. Her parents drowned last week & she’s left as the sole provider for her grandmother and special needs brother. Please consider helping her w burial & living expenses & please share the link with people who might also consider helping.

I taught @tcboyle.com’s “Greasy Lake” to my ENGL 1102 class a few weeks ago, and showed the kids this picture. They asked if I hoped to be that cool when I was in my seventies. I said I’d be happy if I were half that cool.

Happy Towel Day!

RIP Norm… I hope everybody knows your name there and they’ve saved you a corner stool.

Thank god they only want to let the best people in…

Started a new story this week: “Dragon Country,” a rural fantasy ( as opposed to urban fantasy) retelling of Robert Penn Warren’s poem of the same name. This is the third project I’m working at the same time, something I’ve never done before.

I’m doing a thing I've never done before: working on three stories at one time. "Good Night, Sweet Prince," my hardboiled retelling of Hamlet; "A Graveyard of the Dead," a sequel to the Count Orlok, PI, story from the Nosferatu Unbound anthology, 1/2

I always feared I’d live to see the rise of an American dictator. As a child I feared I’d live to see the coming of the Antichrist. I never dreamed either of them would be such dumbasses, though….

Happy Tax Day to those who celebrate.

For those of you with Audible accounts, two books by my friend @almakatsu.bsky.social are on the 2-for-1 sale: Red Widow & The Hunger.

Doctor’s Office music playing classic rock and easy listening. Not gonna lie: “Mr. Bojangles” may be the saddest song of the seventies. Followed by almost anything by Gordon Lightfoot.

New story started: tentatively titled “Graveyard of the Dead”. A follow-up to last year’s “The Last Dead Girl” in which “Nosferatu”’s Count Orlock is a private eye in Savannah Georgia. 1/3

MAGA Republicans: Quit calling us fascists. Every single time you disagree with us you call us Nazis. Also MAGA Republicans:

I’ll be your Huckleberry…

I just contributed to this. So should you.

March is Women’s History Month. In no particular order here are some of my favorite women writers: @cheriepriest.com Shirley Jackson Mary Shelley @almakatsu.bsky.social Eudora Welty Flannery O’Connor Carson McCullers Sue Townsend Mary Stewart

This is pretty cool:

The newest (2010) version of the silent film Metropolis came in the mail today. Incorporating 25 minutes of previously lost footage, at 148 minutes it’s the closest to the original 153 minute cut we’re likely to get. Can’t wait to fall asleep watching it.

I love the Dropkick Murphys. Even more now.

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Amen

I hate this man so much.

A new recording of one of my favorite Tom Waits songs:

👋☕😁 Yet we sing because that's what a songbird does.

So far this autocracy is 20% Atwood, 20% Orwell, and 60% Hee Haw.

Tricky Dicks got nothing on Captain Bonespurs

My musical tastes in a nutshell

I’m still less than half way through writing my hardboiled Hamlet novel, but the final scene of an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street (Season 4’s “Map of the Heart”) helped me figure out the ending.

Reading a prequel to The Great Gatsby bc Gatsby’s 1 of my favorite novels & Nick Carraway 1 of my favorite narrators. It’s strange tho bc it’s a rlly good book but an awful prequel: this Nick is nothing like Fitzgerald’s character. If it were abt Hemingway’s Nick Adams, tho, it’d be near perfect.

@dirkmaggs.bsky.social : I finally found a reasonably priced copy. I’ll be bringing it along when Tina and I visit Winchester in May, so have a nice signing pen on hand.

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.