Beluthahatchie

I took this photo of Brian Aldiss the last time I saw him, at the World Science Fiction Convention in London, three years ago this summe...

Some version of this likely is going on my syllabi this fall. As a fiftysomething Southern white man, I am inevitably associated, by hi...

I just sold a new novelette, "The Devil's Whatever," to Gardner Dozois for his upcoming Book of Magic anthology, which I ...

On my groaning bookcases devoted to pseudoscience, urban legends and folklore in general, a battered first-edition hardcover, without dust ...

(This is re-posted from my Facebook page , where many comments can be found.) As I graduated from an all-white South Carolina private aca...

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...