NightWriter

Sabrina Lyria Pereira, my new granddaughter, born this evening to my daughter Veronica and her husband Cristiano. Everyone doing very well, and I’m sipping Talisker.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/12/2011-hubble-space-telescope-advent-calendar/100200/

Who doesn’t love Ambrose Bierce?

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-koenig-ambrose-bierce-and-christmas-20111220,0,7061408.story

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/books/les-daniels-historian-of-comic-books-dies-at-68.html

Love this.

http://media.openroadmedia.com/files/2011/09/26/StraubFinal.mp4

In all honesty, I didn’t know he was still alive, but I’m very glad he was. He left his mark in horror film history, in a period and place I revere.

Excellent obit by Kim Newman: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/aug/21/jimmy-sangster-obituary”

I was very sorry to hear over the weekend from Bob Booth the news that Alan Ryan died in Brazil on Friday, June 3, of pancreatic cancer. I never met Alan, but I read and admired his novels Dead White and Cast A Cold Eye when they were published. He got in touch with me via email last year and for a short period of time we talked a lot via the net. He was just getting back into writing some new horror fiction, after a long stretch when he concentrated on travel writing. Our loss. If you don’t know his work, find it.

The Cemetery Dance hardcover edition of Wicked Things will be officially published and available on Tuesday, May 17th. The volume also includes my novella, “Scramburg, USA”.

http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/tessier02<

I recently delivered a new short story, “In the Sand Hills,” which will appear in GUTSHOT, an anthology edited by the English novelist Conrad Williams, forthcoming later this year from PS Publishing. I love the idea of this collection — new tales of the “weird West.” Other contributors include Alan Ryan, Mark Morris, Peter Crowther and Rio Youers, Christopher Fowler, and Sarah Langan.