Jason Bovberg is the author of the Blood trilogy—Blood Red, Draw Blood, and Blood Dawn—as well as The Naked Dame, a throwback pulp noir novel. He is editor/publisher of Dark Highway Press, which published the controversial, erotic fairy tale Santa Steps Out and the weird western anthology Skull Full of Spurs. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife Barb and his daughters Harper and Sophie.
LOSER BABY Cover Art Reveal
Just a quick post to share the final cover art for Loser Baby. Art by Michael Morris, layout/design by Kirk Whitham.
Review: “That Left Turn in Albuquerque” by Scott Phillips
Scott Phillips burst onto the crime scene with his superb, pitch-black thriller The Ice Harvest, which was made into pretty good film starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton—but the original novel has an evil-grin dark humor that’ll knock you flat. Published in...
I Binge-Watched Criterion’s “Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema” Blu-ray Set, and Here Are My Rankings
In June 1983, my dad dropped me off at an Edwards Cinema near South Coast Plaza, in Santa Ana, California, to see Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander, a 3-hour foreign film that had been covered enthusiastically by the Los Angeles Times’ Calendar section. I was 15...
Local Author Sets Horror Novels in Fort Collins
It seems every year that Fort Collins—“Fort Fun,” “Choice City”—ranks high on national periodicals’ lists of the best places to live in the United States. In the past 10 years, the city has received top honors in such magazines as Business Week, Forbes, Kiplinger,...
An Interview with Brian Hodge
I first became aware of Brian Hodge in the early 1990s, when I was working at a B. Dalton Bookseller in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Dell Abyss line of horror novels, under the direction of Bantam editor Jeanne Cavelos, had just started blowing up the genre, infusing...
An Interview with Guillermo del Toro
(This interview was conducted in 2003 on the occasion of the 10th anniversary DVD release of Cronos, Guillermo del Toro's first film.) You know who Guillermo del Toro is, right? If you're a fan of DVD and horror films, he's the Dude. You've probably listened to his...
Rediscovering Robert Leininger
If you’re a crime-fiction aficionado of any taste and distinction, you recognize Robert Leininger’s Killing Suki Flood (St. Martin’s) as a work of singular voice and power. It flashed like heat-lightning back in 1991, enlivening the genre with its neo-noir...
Hellnotes Interviews Jason Bovberg
Josh Black of Hellnotes (who previously reviewed Blood Red very favorably) interviewed me not long ago. I'll provide one of the Q&As here, with a link to the full review. Hellnotes: What personally draws you to the horror genre? Jason Bovberg: There’s a great...
An Interview with Grant Jerkins and Jan Thomas about ‘Done in One’
I've been reading Grant Jerkins for years, as evidenced in my interview piece "Grant Jerkins Is Poised for Bestsellerdom." That article follows his publishing travails through his first three novels, A Very Simple Crime, At the End of the Road, and The Ninth...
An Interview with Robert Devereaux
I met Robert Devereaux in 1994 or 1995, not long after the publication of his breakthrough novel Deadweight, one of the more visceral, standout efforts in the Dell Abyss line of horror novels, and before the publication of his follow-up, Walking Wounded, a gentler...
