This is an interesting short film directed by Mark Steensland and written by Rick Hautala. It is credited to an idea from Stephen King. The ...

I made an interesting discovery last night while I was cruising the Internet. Daniel Keyes—the guy who wrote the classic science fiction sto...

I just finished one of the busiest weeks of my life. The good news: it was very productive and even better, it is over. The bad news: I negl...

I meant to have a post about Donald Hamilton and Westerns today, but it didn't quite happen. It will appear next week right here, but un...

I received an email from Bob Randisi over the weekend with news about the upcoming Shamus Award Banquet... We're getting the same two qu...

John Farris is best known for his work in the horror genre— The Fury, All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By, Son of the Endless Night , etc.—...

1967. Point Blank . A film based on The Hunter --a Parker novel--published as by Richard Stark. 1968. The Split . This is another Parker fil...

I have a love-hate relationship with the work of Brian Keene. A few of his novels have absolutely captured me— Terminal —and a few others ha...

A quick post to let everyone know that Gravetapping is going to slow down a little over the next few weeks. It's not going to stop, but ...

A note up front. I wrote this piece, read it, and then debated for some time about actually posting it. As you can see I decided to go with ...

Jaws ; 1975 Jaws 2 ; 1978 Jaws 3D ; 1983 Jaws: The Revenge ; 1987 Cruel Jaws ; 1995

I ran out of time over the weekend and was unable to get anything written for the blog, but I found this review I wrote and posted December ...

A few days ago I came across a magazine article about the work of Philip K. Dick. The article was in a Catholic Magazine—a rather good magaz...

I'm going to change the format of these posts a little. Rather than featuring a television series episode or film I'm going to conce...

I read a Brian Garfield novel a little better than a month ago. I was going to review it originally, then I got lazy or busy or something, a...

1 . It’s been a great summer so far. As most of you know we—my wife and I—moved to a small city in Southern Utah. I’m attending graduate sch...

It has already been a week since I posted the initial sorta-kinda film festival featuring television and film written by, or based on the wo...

“A man can get into a lot of trouble if he’s lonely. If he’s just lonely enough and has time on his hands. That’s a combination made for tro...

This is becoming a trend—a short story for Friday morning. This time it is a more recent story. A story published in 2002 and written by Bil...

The Internet is an amazing place. It is a spider web of interesting (and uninteresting) information and cool stuff. It is especially brillia...