by Jason Bovberg | Feb 3, 2022 | Journalism
I just returned from a solo trip to Austin, Texas. There’s something I love about the area, despite Texas being the home of people like Ted Cruz. One of the things I dig about Austin and its environs is that it’s an unlikely film mecca, from The Texas...
by Jason Bovberg | May 4, 2021 | Interviews, Journalism, Publishing
I became aware of Eric Beetner while visiting my usual southern California haunts a few years back—specifically, Book Carnival, a wonderful bookshop in Orange that I used to visit in my college years for signings with authors like Dan Simmons and Robert McCammon and...
by Jason Bovberg | Nov 28, 2020 | Journalism, Reviews
Jeremy Robert Johnson is part of the Chuck Palahniuk school of shock fiction. He’s been around for years, producing an almost underground brand of intriguing off-the-wall tales categorized as “bizarro.” The thrust of the dark genre is that nothing is off-limits, so...
by Jason Bovberg | Aug 22, 2016 | Interviews, Journalism
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...
by Jason Bovberg | Aug 20, 2016 | Horror, Interviews, Journalism
(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...
by Jason Bovberg | Jul 10, 2015 | Interviews, Journalism
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...
