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In Memoriam
I saw Stanley Burns’s Sleeping Beauties at the counter of Dark Carnival many, many years ago. The collection of postmortem photographs shocked and startled me. Who would collect pictures of dead...
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The Editor’s Children, part 3
When I got to Morbid Curiosity #10, I thought I’d already hit up all my friends for their deepest, darkest confessions. That made it that much more poignant when Seth Lindberg sent me “The Brother Who...
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Why I killed Morbid Curiosity
Timothy Renner’s lovely maiden. In 2002, my younger brother died suddenly. He had been a secret alcoholic and, without anyone knowing, he destroyed his liver. I talked to him one Monday night, when his...
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Requiem for Morbid Curiosity
Originally published on my livejournal Oct. 9th, 2006 at 9:06 AM, this is the account of the second-to-last Morbid Curiosity magazine live events. The reading Saturday night was one of the best yet. I...
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Dead people on air
I’m going to be on the radio this afternoon starting at noon! The summary from the Lilycat show: “This Sunday, we will have on the wonderful writer Loren Rhoads, author of Wish You Were Here:...
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The Mortician’s Gift
It’s time for the annual repost of the true story of my Halloween visit to the Westgate Gallery in New Orleans. The story originally appeared in Morbid Curiosity magazine, then was reprinted in Morbid...
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The Morbid Month of October
October was the month of guest blogging at every opportunity I could. It made for a rich, full month, along with the four live events I participated in and the birthday trip we took to Singapore....
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All the Morbid Curiosity magazine events
I was thinking again about all the wonderful events I hosted for Morbid Curiosity magazine. Over the course of the magazines 10 years, I had the honor of hosting Maria Alexander, Michael Arnzen,...
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Dreadful Tales interview
How were you approached to contribute to SINS OF THE SIRENS? Did you know who else would be contributing to the anthology? During the World Horror Convention in San Francisco, John Everson took me out...
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199 Cemeteries at Ipso Facto
Just a reminder that I’ll be at the legendary Ipso Facto at 517 N. Harbor Boulevard in Fullerton, California tonight at 5:30 pm to sign copies of 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die. I’ll also have...
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It’s an annual tradition that I post my true Halloween story “The Mortician’s Gift.” This is a reminder that I’ll be on tour in Southern California in support of 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die....
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Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues
My first big book sale came in 2008, when Scribner bought a collection of essays I’d culled from my Morbid Curiosity magazine. Morbid Curiosity collected true first-person confessions from people...
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Every year I repost the true story of my Halloween visit to the Westgate Gallery in New Orleans. The story originally appeared in Morbid Curiosity magazine, and was reprinted in Morbid Curiosity Cures...
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5 Questions for Alan M. Clark
I’ve been a fan of Alan M. Clark’s work for a really long time. We met mumble-something years ago at one of the World Horror Conventions, when Alan was showing his paintings in the Art Show. He...
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Settings from the As Above, So Below Books, Annotated
My co-writer Brian Thomas moved to LA in the early 90s to find work in the film industry. He worked behind the scenes on films from The Wizard of Space and Time to Army of Darkness (Evil Dead 3), then...
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The Cover of This Morbid Life
I met Lynne Hansen at one of the World Horror Conventions so long ago now that I can’t tell you which one. I got to know her at the World Horror in Atlanta, when we spent one evening talking about...
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October Storytime
How is your October coming along? This year is pretty quiet for me, since I backed out of all my in-person events and most cemetery tours are still on hold. This may be the year for carving a whole...
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Death’s Garden contributor: Brian Thomas
Brian and I have known each other since high school. We wrote Star Wars fanfic together. We wrote Lost Angels and Angelus Rose — the novels about Lorelei and Azaziel — together. I’ve had the pleasure...
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Death’s Garden contributor: Rain Graves
I met Rain Graves x-many years ago through the World Horror Conventions. She told stories at several of the Morbid Curiosity open mics and had an essay in Morbid Curiosity magazine, too. In 2010, Rain...
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The Morbid Curiosity zine
July is International Zine Month, which I think is cool. Back before the internet was much of a thing, in the days before Google…jeez, before LiveJournal and Myspace, I made a zine called Morbid...
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