Writer and software engineer in the US Midwest. I enjoy poetry, horror, some f/sf, some mystery, some literary fiction (but not the kind where the main character is a professor and nothing happens).
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In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a …
Science fiction horror with both ideas and heart. And I always enjoy a good revenge tale, especially if class warfare is involved.
Bulgakov might have been a morphine addict, but he often wrote like a coked-up Kafka.
Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, …
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the films that …
Each essay focuses on one movie (or in two cases, two movies). Sometimes the author’s life experiences illuminate the movie, sometimes it’s the other way around. I like best the essays that do both, but they are all moving, thought-provoking, occasionally funny, and well written.
"Like smoke off a collision between Dennis Cooper’s George Miles Cycle and Beyond The Black …
Negative Space pulls the reader sentence by sentence into a weirder, darker world, the ground shifting underfoot at every step. I’m not sure where I ended up when I closed this book.
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones …
Both witty and creepy, with a good prose style. Always enjoy Kingfisher.
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones …
Both witty and creepy, with a good prose style. Always enjoy T. Kingfisher.
Selected Poems (Paperback, 1991, Penguin Books)
Selected poems of Osip Mandelshtam, translated by James Greene
