John Wiswell on the Web

My final publication of the year dropped today: a new novelette called “Phantom View”! I love that Reactor held this one off for Halloween...

Let's talk about two great movies. They both came out in 2017. They both came out in August of 2017. They're Spanish...

Previously: My Friend Dahmer and Suicide Club The Haunting (1963) This has to be up there with the best of black-and-white supe...

I'm kicking off The Halloween List this year with one of my favorite hidden gems, and two of the biggest Horror movies of 2018. 2018 has...

Stephen King’s 1922 (2017) After the shocking hit of Gerald’s Game , I had to watch Netflix’s other big King adaptation. I am a huge ...

The Transfiguration (2017) I was utterly unprepared for this movie. It was an amazing get for Netflix, which scooped the film up from ...

After I finished The Guest , I got on the elliptical and loaded up Netflix. By pure coincidence, We Are Still Here was next in my queue, ...

It's my first week of Halloween movies and I'm already joyous. By pure coincidence, I watched all the movies beginning with "Th...

June is over! It has been conquered, and there is no more of it. I'm back from the first of three conventions this summer, and had a won...

This week the first-ever issue of Urban Fantasy Magazine was published. Its first two stories are "A Chance of Cats and Dogs," ...

Sometimes you call a setting evil, or hallowed. There’s good houses and bad, at least according to home owners associations. But there’...

I’m thankful for having a genius brother. I could always pass a Math test, but Jasper had ambition, whether it was hot-wiring cars or counti...

A friend was recently stuck in her novel and asked me how someone could get out of the army without deserting. Being a great friend, I dropp...

Reminder: October 28-October 30th is an open “vengeance” period for all licensed incorporeal entities. Any human beings or related physical ...

Tuesday D’amato smells it, but thinks it’s a bad dream. Then Trystram and Ysolde’s claws tack-tack-tack up the stairs as they flee the basem...

People have died for as long as imagination has existed. Death is a franchise that services every religion and spirituality, but it...

I've never enjoyed waking up early. My body just did it to me, as it did a lot of things to me in my childhood, which is why I had to l...

One of the first superstitions of the digital era was the chain letter. An immigrant from the postal service, the superstition came in the f...