horror fiction

  • Brady Allen 1970-2025

    One of the best things about being an author is hanging out with other authors. It’s a rare thing to get to talk to a group of people, talking about essentially the same subject matter in the same language. If you talk to your significant other, who may not be a writer, the chances…

  • Rough Bits

    Rough Bits

    This revamped website stuff is a big pain in the neck. I look very forward to getting it all sorted out as I watch the world spin out of control around me. This font? I’m not sure where it came from; it was probably an accident. (And I do enjoy an accident as long…

  • 37 Days

    Yeah, the site is sure looking different, right? I’m so glad you’ve noticed! Kinda couldn’t help it…I mean, it was even gone for a few days. Hell, it’s still gone as I write this!) The mistake was upgrading and changing stuff 40 days before the new book is finally released. The release of the…

  • All These Steps Lead Down Live

    All These Steps Lead Down Live

    In the middle of the COVID 19 pandemic, there was a super fun live reading at Chatham University on October 14th, 2021 featuring authors Sara Tantlinger, Douglas Gwilym, Michael Arnzen and the mighty Jocelyn Codner. And me? I was the opening slab of storyteller. It was a fun evening for all involved especially for…

  • THE LETTER IN THE LIGHTHOUSE (灯台の手紙)

    Spooky goings on at the Aniva lighthouse…

  • StokerCon 23 Part 3

    Better late than never? Maybe… Keep in mind I am writing this approximately four months from next StokerCon..Late? Understatement. I’ve been trying to write this third part for months and each time I start, something awful happens. It’s a post that in retrospect doesn’t really require a ton of exposition except from the point…

  • The Dinner Conversation

    Here are two friends having a lovely dinner chat about life, death and a nice bag of potatoes.

  • Spiritus Ex Machina

    Free fiction about a haunted English Race Car