Hello, friends. So, THIS is special. My first ever limited edition hardcover is now available to pre-order via Thunderstorm Books. DADDY'S BOY by Michael David Wilson Thunderstorm hardcover limited edition includes: a brand new cover art from Ben Baldwin a foreword from David Moody (HATER, AUTUMN) an afterword, 'Grandad's Boy' the Daddy's Boy glossary You can pre-order it below, and please do because the amount of pre-orders will affect the print run. Pre-ordering is the only way to guarantee...
14 days ago • 3 min read
Hello, friends. It has been well over a month since my last email. Here is a little round-up so you can see what's been going on over at all your favourite This Is Horror places. What's on This Is Horror Podcast Six new episodes of This Is Horror have landed and I have to say it has been a very good month for the podcast. We have had conversations with master of horror, Mick Garris, welcomed back Stephen Graham Jones for the first time in a number of years, and had conversations with...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hello, friends. It's been a busy couple of weeks since the last This Is Horror newsletter and as always I've been diligently working on This Is Horror Podcast, my collaborative novel with John Crinan, and my horror-crime crossover novel I'm sharing with Ross Jeffery as I write it. I've also been involved in some things I can't fully talk about now that would be very exciting for my writing career and I hint at in the latest Walk 'n' Talk over on the MDW Patreon. I'll be less frustratingly...
4 months ago • 4 min read
Hello, friends. Another week has gone by and the main headline on This Is Horror is our conversation with the always wonderful Clay McLeod Chapman is now live. We’ve already received some wonderful feedback for this episode, including a post from author Chris DiLeo over on Threads who said: Loved this episode. It makes me want a show where writers just talk and try to make each other feel better. Love the point about celebrating wherever you are in the process. And for the record, @claymcleod...
4 months ago • 4 min read
Hello, friends. Let's not bury the lead, we interviewed Joe Hill on This Is Horror and it was a wonderful conversation. You can find the audio version below but here's the video on YouTube if you want to watch it right now. Joe Hill on King Sorrow, Writing Process, and Growing up in Maine New Year Goals for 2026 Well, we may be 20 days into the year but this is the first This Is Horror newsletter of 2026 and as such I wanted to write about what my New Year’s goals are. Now, if you’re a...
4 months ago • 12 min read
Hello, friends. A few hours ago we dropped a brand new episode of This Is Horror Podcast in which we welcomed Philip Fracassi back to the show for the first time in over eight years. And in the outro to that show I went on record to say 2026 will be the biggest year for This Is Horror Podcast yet. It is the year where I really take the podcast to the next level and put it as one of my number one creative priorities. I've been doing the This Is Horror Podcast for the past almost 13 years and...
6 months ago • 6 min read
Hello, friends. It's been a month since my last email when I linked to every single This Is Horror Podcast conversation with Josh Malerman and spoke about my history and connection with Josh. You'd be forgiven for thinking this newsletter is a monthly newsletter. Truth be told, I always intended it to be a weekly but this year it hasn't quite worked out this way. This time around, though, I have one hell of a good reason for the delay on putting a newsletter out … See, just over three weeks...
6 months ago • 7 min read
Hello, friends. One of the most recent guests on This Is Horror Podcast was our dear friend and prolific writer, Josh Malerman. He recently released his first nonfiction book Watching Evil Dead which is part an account of a transformative night in his life, part a reflection on Evil Dead (but you don't need to have watched the movie to appreciate the book), and part as close to bottled inspiration as you're likely to find in a book form. There's writing and creative advice but this is less a...
7 months ago • 13 min read
Hello, friends. It’s been just under a month since we last spoke, and in that time, I have finished the first draft of my collaborative novel, tentatively titled Inemuri with John Crinan. Folks, this one is an absolute whopper, weighing in at over 167,000 words. Given my last two books were under 80,000 words and the two before that considerably less, this is new and uncharted territory for me. I spoke to Josh Malerman last week about his excellent creative nonfiction book, WATCHING EVIL...
8 months ago • 9 min read