Category: Appearances

  • Stories in the Songs

    This Saturday, October 20, I’ll be returning to Riley’s Pour House for another night of stories and songs.  If you live around Pittsburgh and you haven’t discovered Riley’s, you’re missing out on the pub that Pittsburgh Magazine has identified as one of the best around. Great food, terrific people . . . and lots of music.…

  • Day of the Dancing Dead

    Crowne Plaza, Pittsburgh South:  164 Fort Couch Road Pittsburgh, PA  15241 412-833-5300 – $15 single day (Friday or Saturday). Includes admission to after hour events on the day of the ticket purchase. Excludes VIP event. – $35 weekend pass. Includes admission all three days of the convention and after hour events. Excludes VIP event. –…

  • Dancing in the Headlights

    That’s just one of the topics that Greg Hall and I talked about during a fast hour of conversation on Friday’s installment of The Funky Werepig Show. If you didn’t get a chance to tune in to the live podcast, you can download the full interview here. The Funky Werepig Show – August 4, 2012 Along the way, we…

  • Sounding the Depths

    World Horror fans give the V-sign at Voices & Music reading. Sounding the depths. That’s what I call it. It’s that phase of the writing process that exists apart from lived experience, the time when (as Wordsworth said) the stuff of life can be “recollected in tranquility.” I’m currently spending a good bit of my…

  • Voices & Music at Jozart Center for the Arts: A Stoker Homecoming

    What is the sound of horror? We explored the question at last week’s World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, with a multi-media reading from Voices: Tales of Horror.  As part of the on-going 21st-Century Scop project, the presentation featured prose selections set to the music of Veins: The Soundtrack. This week, the exploration continues at…

  • 21st Century Scop does Horror Realm

    The undead sure know how to party. I’ve just returned from Horror Realm, where I shared billing with John Amplas (Martin), Mike Christopher (Dawn of the Dead), and Kyra Schon (Night of the Living Dead).  Also in attendance were Chris Rickert (Eljay’s Books), Tiffany Apan, and lots and lots of zombies. Primarily a media convention,…