John Claude Smith is a writer of dark speculative fiction, music journalism, and poetry. Most of the short fiction veers into horror, while the novels tend to meander into a weird mix of magic realism, psychological and supernatural nuances, and, again, horror. Late 2011 saw the publication of his first book, The Dark is Light…
Category: short stories
Tuesday’s Overlooked Films: The Devil and Miss Jones
A few things to mention before I get to this lovely little film: the BOGO sale at Trestle continues! I have a new short horror story coming out, “Yuletide Feast,” which will be up soon: it’s actually a rather old story that I stumbled across, realised had never been published, so shined up and sent…
Trestle Press BOGO & Brit Grit Too
ONE DAY THROW DOWN! SALE WITHIN A SALE PAUL D. BRAZILL’S BRIT GRIT TOO MONDAY — AND MONDAY ONLY! — $.99, PLUS THE BUY ONE GET ONE FREE IS STILL IN FORCE!! Amazon Kindle Best-Selling and trailblazing author Paul D. Brazill has decided to drop the price of his legendary Brit Grit Too…
Publications: Mandrake & Magpies/Songs of Defiance
Just back from a visit with Elena, Rod and Lydia in Dublin where we also managed to run into Bono, Michale Bublé — and more importantly @sirthopas and Pádraig. Pictures soon! I’ve also got some good news to share on the publication front. First, my short story “Mandrake and Magpies” — the first story to…
Connecticut Adventures + Publication
Well, I ran off on Friday early enough to get to the Punk Rock Jukebox and have a good time aggravating Marko during his show, including decorating him and annotating the walls. Mostly I just giggled in the background while he was trying to talk. Then we ran off to the pub to have some…