Hello everyone! It’s been some time since I made a proper post to this website. I’ve been hard at work on a project for quite some time. It’s been several years, actually, since I completed the first draft of my first ever novel, Elkwood Kids. Horror is one of my pet genres. Fantasy was where […]
What you’re looking at below is the word and page count (single-spaced) of a book I started writing in February. This is only the first draft, but now that that’s done, I can start the editing and rewriting process. I started this as a short horror story written in my notes app on my phone. […]
A Ghost Ship If you’d ask what’s on my mind, I’d have a thousand clear, concise answersI know precisely what I’m thinking, every waking momentAll the neurons firing in my head are dutiful soldiersLeft,Left, Every word I speak would tell you that there’s been a mutinyDeserters over the hills, sand in their bootsThe captain is […]
Fresh Their growing fruits were bought and bredTo cultivate even the choosiest pickersOn trees that present alive and deadGreyed bark with produce bright and wistful At times, my heart would petrify to think Of engorging on these evening berriesMy chin askew to their sweetened stinkAs others feasted, full and carefree But there are those that […]
The Mummy Caught by its tail, the ghost of a breathPained and struggling to rise from the chestPanic strides the tide and crestsHarking the first of many deaths You’ll find no answers behind lock or keysThe creature has no wants or needsA storm is raging, it splits the seaRevealing monsters that stalked beneath Royal blood […]
Do you see it now? Look around, damn it!Again and again, it’s clear that the way is through.Not over. Not under. No avoiding this obstacle:It’s an adversary we must bisect and be done with, head on. It’s growing everyday, look at main street, please!We’re not getting any better, we’re not settling into this.Every breath you […]
After my last review, I spent a lot of time thinking about what was next for these books and what they were heading toward. I was anticipating this issue most of all, I think, because this would make or break the Three Jokers story as a series. This middle point will decide whether or not […]
This has been an unfortunate break in my streak of posting. I haven’t broken a streak in a long time, but truthfully, I think a breath of air was overdue. I had run low on inspiration in the movies I was seeing over on our good friend Netflix. Flipping through the catalogue was coming up […]
I’m ready for horror again. I’ve been doing plenty creepy in this series in the last couple months with Bird Box and The Titan, but those movies were trying to tell me something. This month is the last stretch of winter, I’m feeling a little restless, and I’m ready for something gory and exciting. The […]
I have reviewed a criminally low amount of the “gruesome transformation” subgenre throughout my time with Netflix Dumpster Dive. Sure, I’ve done horror aplenty. But, there is something interesting about someone losing their humanity for the greater good. It’s a tale as old as genetics. Playing God, inciting evolution (not how that works), advancing the […]
Vincent C. Russo 