Deck the halls and cover yer balls! Time for the Festival of Frights… the 12 Crazy Nights… the Terror of Tinsel… the Scream of the Krampus… the Ghosts of Creepmas Coming… the Reason for the Season… THE 12 DAYS OF CREEPMAS!!!

I’ll be offering up prize copies of the ebool of Living Dead at Zigfreidt & Roy and maybe getting one or two new stories up for action. I’ll be serving up interviews with some of the best writers around, profiling some others and, as is tradition round here round meow, I will be posting X-messy videos and little stocking stuffers along the way. So stay tuned and stay vigilant!

This go round, there’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 Horrorfying Masters of the Macabre from the ranks of the best Indie genre writers around, including old pals like Red Tash, Jason McKinney, AK Marshall and Julie Jansen. There’s also new fiends like Father Thunder himself, William Brian Johnson, Kim Koning, Lori Whitwam and the inimitable Jessica McHugh. This whole holiday shindig is being thrown by the most excellent Rebecca Treadway and the full list of blog spots can be found here -> http://tinyurl.com/7wy4u3j

So get your mulled wine, put on your bunny slippers and get ready to have your head handed to you on a festive pike. It’s Creepin’ time!

Yep. I said it. Schtroumpfbaggery.

It’s a new section you’ll find up there on the header menu under The Store, just because I had nowhere else to put it. Basically, it’s a heapin’ pile of links to articles, stories, interviews and other chunks of my lost grey matter that are currently floating around the web-o-sphere. Check-check-check-check Check it out! Miscellaneous Tidbits and Schtroumpfbaggery

The good folks at 5-Star Books have added Living Dead at Zigfreidt & Roy to their list of top-rated books in the “Horror” category, where it now stands among works by friends and Indie luminaries like Red Tash, Ruth Barrett, Belinda Frisch, Robert S. Wilson and the mighty Jason Darrick.

Go check it the funk out! LD@ZR at 5-Star Books then click and get yoself some Hot Fiction!

His Dark Flag, formerly known as The Office Pirate, is currently the featured short story on EWR: Short Stories, listed among such luminaries as Twain, Balzac, A.C. Doyle, Poe, Lovecraft and Ambrose M.F. Bierce! Please go check it out and offer your comments, your likes, your shares… Help a brother out with a little Holiday Web Karma, won’tcha?