Hello, audience members,

I must admit I don’t have much of a plan for this website.  I’m not even sure what people want to read on a new blog for a struggling writer who spends as much time reading and watching horror as he does writing it. Some might not even say what I write is horror, at least not in the traditional sense.  However, I leave opinions like that up to the reader.  The bottom line is I write what I enjoy writing. If I have fun writing it, I hope you’ll have fun reading it, or making fun of it, or dislike it an move on to something more interesting to you.

I think the bottom line here is that I want this web site to become as much a creative outlet as the stories themselves. I’ve been working (yes, I have a day job) a lot lately so I’ve been struggling to be both creative and force enough knowledge into my head so I can continue to get paid. That being said, here are my goals for this website:

1. To keep it updated frequently enough that it doesn’t get stale or out of date.
2. To provide entertaining pieces, hopefully in my chosen genre, for others to share and link to.
3. To advertise the locations and purchasing options of the few stories I have published.
4. Anything beyond that is icing on the cake and I will figure it out in time.

Thanks for reading and if you find anything interesting don’t hesitate to drop a comment.  They may not all get published, but I’ll read as many as I can.

Daryl Marcus – Dec 4, 2016.

I’m not usually one to advertise or randomly link on my site, however I feel if you are studying horror fiction and wishing to get multiple takes on the genre, you have to read about horror as much as you should read and watch horror itself.

Take a look at Renee Asher Pickup’s brief analysis of From Dusk Till Dawn and you’ll get my meaning:

http://www.dirgemag.com/twenty-years-of-from-dusk-till-dawn/