John Wiswell on the Web

It's been a busy year! Most of my writing time this year has gone into the hardest novel I've ever written, which was a heck of a c...

I'm in Baltimore, Maryland this weekend for the World Fantasy Convention. It's a lovely convention packed with brilliant writers. I...

My first memories of The Mummy are parody. It feels like every syndicated cartoon had an episode with a pyramid and an angry zombie in band...

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...

Previously: Blumhouse's Halloween. I love Horror, but too much of it views mental illness as a bottomless well of origin stories for ki...

Previously: the classic Prom Night. This is the best made of the Halloween sequels. Halloween 2 in 1981 attempted to tell what ha...

Previously: Upgrade and Short Night of Glass Dolls I put off watching Prom Night for years because it was lumped in with those misogynist...

Previously: Tragedy Girls, Evil Eye, and What Have You Done to Solange? Today I offer you two movies, separated by nearly fifty years, wi...

Previously: The Lobster and The Killing of the Sacred Deer Every October I devote at least one blog post to Giallo films, but I have to d...

Jump Back To: Office, Unfriended: Dark Web, and Calibre Finally I’ve gotten around to seeing the works of Yorgos Lanthimos! I’ve heard ab...

Previously: Ghoul and Erased Office (2015) From now on whenever someone asks me whether I prefer the British or American Offic...

Previously: Thelma, Annihilation, and The Endless We're taking a brief break from movies today to spotlight two Horror miniseries. One ...

Previously: Pyewacket, The Meg, and Hold the Dark. Today I have three winners for you. Helping get the taste of Hold the Dark out of my m...

Previously: Nicholas Cage's Mandy, A24's Slice, and Summer of '84. Talk about three intensely different movies. Today I've g...

We started off October with A Quiet Place and Hereditary , two of the biggest Horror hits of the year. Today I'd like to talk about thre...

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...

Happy October, everyone! This is my favorite month of the year. The leaves are turning, the air is fresh, and pop culture is overrun by spoo...

I'm busy enough that I don't write much fanfic anymore, but this summer I made a secret pact with Ryan Boyd. Pursuant to our pact, ...

It's my honor to have a piece in the Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction issue of Uncanny Magazine. Between Lightspeed and Uncanny M...

I have one more story for you this summer! It's been a busy few months and I've capped them off with a new story at Fireside Magazin...

I'll be in Massachusetts this coming weekend for Readercon ! I've attended for years, but this is my first time doing programming wi...

This weekend I'll be at one of my favorite cons, 4th Street Fantasy in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I love the location, the conrunners, and ...

Are you ready for a new story? Because I've got a fresh one, just for you. "Tank!" is free to read over at Diabolical Plots. ...

I'm thrilled today to announce the publication of " Buyers’ Remorse and Seven Slain Cause ‘Adorable’ Robot Dinosaur Stock to Plumme...

Convention season is almost upon us. Later this week I'm flying to the Nebulas, and 4th Street and Readercon are right behind it. I...

I've just booked my travel for this year's conventions. I can't believe all that travel is just a couple months away! I've g...

It's almost March 2018, so of course we're all talking about the best movies of 2017. Naturally I disagree with some of the Oscar ...

NO: "I'm sorry the house is a mess." YES: "Thank you for coming so late!" NO: "I'm sorry I'm turning ag...

I have an article in the new Uncanny Magazine . What a way to start out the year. It's one of the most positive articles I've ever...