When your day is not complete without reading a book report about a crazy 19th century vampire novel written by an even crazier 19th century French man, tor.com is there.

My story "Of Shifting Skin and Certainty" is now available at BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES.

This story came out of my desire to imagine what THE RETURN OF THE KING would have read like if written by the writing team of Charles Baudelaire and Isabelle Eberhardt. In other words it wound up being about skinless actors addicted to synthetic flesh, telling stories to each other while doing drugs.

Just like in Tolkien!

On the Street of Seven Horns, past the temple of the Burnt God, where the people have no place to meet but on the earthen bricks outside the bazaar, I have discovered a taxo den, and there I have met the King.

I'm also pleased to be sharing the issue with Jonathan Wood and his novella/novellette The Mathematics of Faith.

Enjoy!

- New Tor.com post up about vespertilio-homo, the lunar man-bat, and Matthew Goodman's The Sun and The Moon: the Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New York. .

- My parents got my email, but they are still trying to figure out how to reply. Email is a whole new world to them. No use rushing them on this one.

- The Homelessmoon Chapbook is now available for free and easy download. 5 stories, 80 pages. My story, "Signature Days", is all new weird and depressing with copious amounts of OCD thrown in for giggles. It's also quite short.

- My wife makes aesthetic decisions when she chops onions.

- I received my contributor's copy of CinemaSpec: Tales of Hollywood and Fantasy. The Edgar A. Poe stamp was a nice touch.

- Ack Ack Ack Ack

My review of John Harwood's The Seance can be read over at Tor.com. Shorter review: I liked it. I really liked it and I then went out and bought The Ghost Writer.

I have a new post over at Tor.com on the comic book Dragon Chiang. It is one of my guilty pleasures, and a comic that describes itself as: “18-WHEELIN’, CHINESE-COMMUNIST, TRUCK-DRIVIN’ ACTION!”

No joke.

"Long before Cormac McCarthy discovered The Road, Dragon Chiang was its disciple.

"Possibly the single greatest one-issue comic book series ever put to paper, Dragon Chiang is the rarest of all things: perfect beautiful trash. Tim Truman and Tim Bradstreet got it right the first time and decided to quit while it was perfect. That it’s a comic book relic from the Cold War shouldn’t be held against it. From start to finish, Dragon Chiang is the best post-apocalyptic Chinese communist trucker action movie you are ever going to see."

Enjoy.

I have an article over at Tor.com on Count Jan Potocki and his book The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. It's a weird book and a weird movie, and I recommend both of them.

I hope you all enjoy it.