I write horror stories as well as film and book reviews. I've been published in Weird Tales Magazine, Tor.com, weirdfictionreview.com, and thethoughterotic.com. My primary interests are modernist fiction, world domination, the horror genre (classic, avant-garde, modern), polyamory, and philosophy of every stripe. Favorite authors include (but are far from limited) to Marcel Proust, Ramsey Campbell, Martin Amis, Thomas Ligotti, Ruth Rendell, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, and Clive Barker. I grew up in Bergen, Norway as well as Albuquerque, New Mexico, and I've attended the University of New Mexico and CU Boulder.
Courtney Morgan, who runs the wonderful sex think-tank/journal THE THOUGHT EROTIC, published this piece of mine on my experiences with open relationships and polyamory. I have more to say on the subject and I look forward to writing on it again, but for now, this is a fair representation of my thoughts on this often […]
The PDF linked to below contains my novella “Renovations” as it originally appeared in Weird Tales magazine (Jan/Feb, 2008) under the editorial eye of the legendary Ann VanderMeer and with the evocative art of Daniele Serra. This was my first sale and I feel incredibly lucky that this piece found such a home, as well […]
Jeff & Ann VanderMeer have published my essay Razors to the Heart: William Shakespeare and Horror Fiction over at Weird Fiction Review. Razors to the Heart: William Shakespeare and Horror Fiction
The good folks at Weird Fiction Review have been publishing my movie reviews for the last two months. They asked me to write about “The Thing” and I did. Check it out, as well as the tons of other weird goodies on the website!
I’ve never really shared any of my poetry with anyone but a select one or two. Here is one I wrote awhile back: Across the heat of his desert, she stretches, this parched land yearning for her celestial embrace, tantalized by the pillars of heaven: her arms, strong enough to bear the sky, her […]
Check out Zurigan’s Child, by J. Starr Welty. A strong, unconventional and very dark fantasy novel incorporating Machiavellian intrigue, quasi-Gnostic mythology, sadomasochistic magic, and mental trauma, written in intense, stylish prose. Available on Amazon, for Kindle: $3.99. Give it a try!
“Faust: When you are labeled Lord of Flies, corrupters, liars, All right—who are you then? Mephistopheles: Part of that force which would do ever evil, and does ever good.” Goethe – Faust I wonder if maybe that slimy piece of dreck, Fred Phelps, may be doing some unintentional good. After all, he and his cult […]
Read my novella at the Weird Tales website: http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/2009/01/09/renovations/ (this link is now broken: check out the PDF linked under “Renovations: The First Story”) It was published in the Jan/Feb issue of 2008. Big thank you’s to Ann VanderMeer for taking a chance on an unpublished author, and to her husband, author Jeff VanderMeer as […]
One of the essays I wrote for my Shakespeare class made it into the University of New Mexico’s “Best Student Essays” online magazine. Special thanks to Professor Renee Faubion for her encouragement as well as her recommendation to the editorial board. http://www.beststudentessays.org/index.php/article/2011/05/playing_dead_the_tombtrick_and_its_various_effects
(An essay I wrote for Professor James Stone’s Hitchcock class at UNM): Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is a haunting examination of the effects of erotic idealization and the struggle to recreate lost splendor. The film follows “Scottie” Ferguson’s initiation into obsession, the loss of his object of desire and, finally, his doomed quest to recapture/recreate his […]