Beluthahatchie

As an ongoing research project, I hope to compile an exhaustive list of Western Maryland weirdness. Whether it’s factual, fanciful ...

Illustration from The Sylva Herald. Jerome Clark devotes a chapter of his book Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurre...

Sydney in our Abingdon, Va., hotel room in August 2015, celebrating that she had, indeed, remembered to pack her jeans. This is the ti...

Caption: This is one of my favorite photos from Clarion 2013, my previous stint teaching the six-week workshop in San Diego. Patrick Ropp ...

In December 1937, while at Princeton, the young mathematical genius Alan Turing traveled with his friend Venable Martin to visit Mart...

(Just posted to Facebook -- after hundreds of Likes and scores of comments -- and reposted here.) Folks, y'all have ranged far beyond ...

(Just posted to Facebook, and reposted here.) Many friends, colleagues, and acquaintances in the science fiction/fantasy trades, assuming...

I'm delighted that the May issue of Clarkesworld reprints my 1997 story "Beluthahatchie," alongside new stories by Maggie Cl...

My co-writer Ellen Klages and I are finalists for the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award , both in the Best Novella category, for " Waku...

I can't afford to bid on this 1916 Joseph Clement Coll illustration -- one of a series that accompanied Talbot Mundy's King of the ...

In the nearly 20 years I have been active in SFF, I repeatedly have told hundreds of aspiring writers – undergraduates, Clarion and ...