THE REST OF THE YEAR
Did you ever have a thought so sinister, you just couldn’t share it with people? Not me... THE REST OF THE YEAR By Dan Dillard Rain pitter-pattered on the rooftops of all the houses in the small town...
View ArticleComing Soon!--- DIG, a novel by Dan Dillard
Sometimes, you have to write a book about your hometown...and in that book you have to destroy everything and let it rebuild itself. It's fun. Here's chapter one. The rest of the book will be along...
View ArticleMy Kid Has POTS.
So, my oldest child has POTS. It's not a joke about Colorado, nor is it something from an old Cheech and Chong movie. NOPE. Not these either. I wish it was. It stands for Postural Orthostatic...
View ArticleNight-Night, Doc
Twenty-one years ago I had about a thousand dollars to my name and I wanted a motorcycle. How I ended up with a parrot is anybody's guess, but in hindsight it was probably a better idea. I'm clumsy and...
View ArticleThe Evils That Mac Do.
I wouldn't call myself a Mac-hater. Or an anti-Mac or whatever. I have been known to use the terms iSheep and iSheeple. I have called folks fanboys or fangirls about their obsession with apples. You...
View Article'DIG' is here. Get your copy today.
I've written four collections, been included in a load of anthologies, web journals, blogs, horror mags, and now...I've finished my sixth novel. This is the one I'm most proud of. Maybe it's because...
View ArticleJurassic'n me about dinosaurs?
I hate doing film reviews. I find things I like about movies and things I don't like about movies. The takeaway here is this: making movies is hard. Anyone that pulls off a feature length film gets my...
View ArticleGhostbusters III: An open letter to Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson,...
And Annie Potts, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis, Peter McNichol..... I'm a writer, but I don't do fan fiction. At least I haven't since I was about twelve and I wrote a sequel to John Carpenter's...
View ArticleREUNION, a review
You probably know Maria Olsen as the casting director from the fabulous Starry Eyes...or maybe as the Fury from Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. If you don't know her, you will...
View ArticleOne Vision of Hell
“This will only hurt a lot,” he said. He was sweaty, greasy and covered with blood. He held the knife, a large thing; something like John Rambo might carry into the Vietnamese jungle, up and twisted it...
View ArticleTales of Halloween and Horror in 2015
A Christmas Horror Story, The Visit, Maggie, The Final Girls, We Are Still Here, POD, Deathgasm, Headless, What We Do in the Shadows, Cooties, Attack on Titan, The Last Shift and I still have Crimson...
View ArticleHappy Halloween.
Maybe you think you're too grown for Halloween. Fine. More candy for me. But don't you think, just once a year you might act like a kid again? You might find a little magic in the world, carve a...
View ArticleA Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away...without spoilers.
Episode VII: The Force Awakens is out. Unless you're hiding in the outer rim, you've probably heard of it. Maybe you're sick of hearing about it. I don't care, hear some more: Zero spoilers, although...
View ArticleDown the Psycho Path
My latest book is now available on Kindle as well as Smashwords, Kobo, Barnes and Noble and other e-book webstores. It's another collection of short and flash fiction horror tales about the evil shit...
View ArticleOw, my Pancreas...
"Let us all sing the praises of the pancreas." -Heywood Banks "My pancreas attracts every other pancreas in the universe with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely...
View ArticleAnnual update. Wow.
How long has it been since I've typed anything on this site? Too long. Well, let's run down what's happened. School. School. School. School and school. I'm getting my Bachelor's degree in Digital...
View ArticleAnderson Wake
I wrote this little story a couple years ago and published it in a collection called Down the Psycho Path. Through an odd set of circumstances, I got the opportunity to make it into a film. Those...
View ArticleWITCHCRAFT
Here, finally, is my student thesis film. A lot of people came together to make this happen and I can't thank them enough. So grab some popcorn and enjoy. WITCHCRAFT written and directed by Dan...
View ArticleA Pirate Looks At Forty
Thanks, Jimmy Buffett. Forty was actually a few years ago, but looking back, I think forty may be when things changed. It's been a long time since an age really affected me. Driving at 16 may have been...
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