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 Part 2
Sorry about the delay in posts, but it was a busy, amazing weekend. The past year and a half I have been writing seems like a blur. It started out as a lark, just doing a flash fiction piece to read at the open mike at Mo-Con V in 2010. That lark has turned serious. Since then 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 …
Where Do We Go From Here?
My home town sucks in respect to books. With the demise of Borders, we are left with only a Barnes & Nobles. That is it if we want to buy new books from a book store. There are used places to buy the cast off remains of someone's dead aunt's romance and V.C. Andrews books, …
WTF? Here I am…
Hello out there in Word Press land, I am Brent Abell and I like to make people die. That's right I said it, I kill people on a regular basis. I know, I know, I should be behind bars for my crimes, but I am not. I lurk among you, in the shadows...waiting. No really, …
Our Darkest Fears 