Welcome to the show, step inside...step inside. Rather you are a regular visitor or just passing through the graveyard on the Coffin Hop, let me welcome you to the official home of me. Let me introduce myself, I am Brent Abell and I write horror and dark fiction. The things that go bump in the …
Category: horror
News, Beer, and a Live Episode of Cops
First off, damn I hate waiting. Christmas? My siblings and I had our haul scoped out a month in advance. Lines? I buy expensive badges to Star Wars Celebrations so I don't have to wait in most lines. Submissions? That my friends is the one thing that kills me...and I can't change a thing about …
What I’m Reading (And You Should Be Too)
Once upon a time, a sixth grade student walked into his English class for free-read and dropped Stephen King's IT on his desk. The paperback looked like a brick and clocked in at over 1,000 pages. The teacher came over and stared at the student quizzically while pondering why a sixth grader had such a …
Believe the Unbelievable
When I was a kid, my parents, brother, and sister lived in an older two-story house. It was the first house that my parents bought and as kids, we thought it was a mansion compared to the other places we had lived. I was only in kindergarten, so my knowledge of the paranormal was minimal at …
News and Geekdom
Well readers, the big news for the week is that story number five got accepted yesterday. I was on a camping trip when my good friend (and fellow writer) Wes Southard texted me about the rejections/acceptances going out for the "New Dawn Fades" anthology from Post Mortem Press. I checked my phone for my mail …
Why?
(Note: This is a work of sarcastic questions and true answers. While the intent is true, the people bugging me are not really my family, except for my sister who finds it amusing to mess with me about it.) I have been asked many times by my family in the past year about why did I …
Horrorfind 13 Part 1
This not what the 'going to be' standard Friday blog is for the week, but will instead be a few short blasts from the Horrorfind 13 Convention in Gettysburg, PA. As I sit here partaking of cold pizza for breakfast in my hotel room, I realize that for the first time during this trip, I …
Choices and Regret
What is the one thing everyone has but can do nothing about? Regret, simple as that. Somewhere down the line, we have made choices that altered our lives and sent us down a path we didn't see ahead of time. Writing is like that for me. I have always been a creative person with an …
Our Darkest Fears 