NonFiction

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Richard Thomas on Stephen Graham Jones

Here are at Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author, I’m always thrilled whenever a new conversation opens up exciting firsts for myself and you, dear readers. Somehow, some way, this seems to happen with every column though! This month’s conversation is no exception…

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Laird Barron on Roger Zelazny

Patrick Barb

Barron is an expat Alaskan and the author of several books including The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Swift to Chase, and Not a Speck of Light. Currently, he lives in the Rondout Valley of New York State…

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Hailey Piper on Carmen Maria Machado

Patrick Barb

Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, All the Hearts You Eat, The Worm and His Kings series, and other books of horror. She’s also the author of…

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Maxwell I. Gold on Dante

Patrick Barb

And now for something…slightly different. Speculative literature comes in many varieties. Questions of “what if?”, “what was that?”, and “how could this be?” are posed and answered across varying mediums and forms…

I'm Just a (Freddy) Girl

Hailey Piper

Forty years ago, Craven introduced the world to Freddy Krueger with the original A Nightmare on Elm Street. You probably know the gist of it, whether you’ve seen it or not. Freddy Krueger (played by now-horror legend Robert Englund)…

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Nat Cassidy on William Shakespeare

Patrick Barb

Well, someone had to do it eventually. Some author featured in this column Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author had to go and pick one of the biggest (if not THE biggest names in literature) as the author they wanted to chat with me about at length. But who would be mad enough to do such a thing?

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: L. Marie Wood on Ira Levin

Patrick Barb

L. Marie Wood is a Golden Stake Award- and two-time Bookfest Award-winning, Ignyte Award and two-time Bram Stoker Award® nominated author. She is also a MICO Award-winning screenwriter, a Rhysling nominated poet, and accomplished essayist. She is also the Vice President of the Horror Writers Association, founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English/Creative Writing professor, and a horror scholar…

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Stephen Graham Jones on Philip K. Dick

Patrick Barb

This month, it was my absolute pleasure to speak with author Stephen Graham Jones. He’s the New York Times bestselling author of some thirty novels and collections…

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Paula D. Ashe on Clive Barker

Patrick Barb

This month’s “Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author” is the first time one of my interviewees has selected a still-living author as their favorite. It was an absolute honor to chat with Paula D. Ashe about one of horror’s living legends, a master of many forms of media, Clive Barker…

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Gwendolyn Kiste on Shirley Jackson

Patrick Barb

To round out the month of June, I got to chat with a modern queen of horror about one of the genre’s most legendary authors, one who truly broke new ground in the genre just as surely (heh) as she laid the groundwork for much of what we know and love in contemporary horror fiction…

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Brian Evenson on Franz Kafka

Patrick Barb

This month, I had the pleasure with speaking with an author who’s received acclaim in literary and genre circles, demonstrating that crossover is possible between the worlds without the integrity of one being sacrificed for the other…

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author: Ai Jiang on Toni Morrison

Patrick Barb

The family tree of literature, especially speculative fiction, is a vast and many-branched one. With this interview series, I hope to speak with some of the top names—both established and upcoming—in the speculative fiction genres about the authors who have made an impact on them, whether as readers, writers, or both…