People weep at the movies. If an old guy goes to a movie by himself, there is a chance he will be crying by the end. No matter what kind of movie it is, he will be crying.David Macpherson is that old guy crying at everything.In this personal essay, he attempts to understand the joy and art of crying at the movies.What movies do you cry at?Should men hide their tears away, because crying at a movie is a such a girl thing to do?Or is it universal?...

There was a website about monsters. It was all about monsters.Sounds fun. But don't bother looking for it. It's gone.The internet is like that.The website is gone but we have the FAQ page. And in honor of anyone who remembers that there used to be a monster website that didn't completely suck, we are publishing this relic of an older internet.The FAQ is a strange thing. Does it really answer the questions everyone asks, or is it more random than that?

The world of old time radio is a fantasy land where you take the voices and make an entire world. Nothing is better.This collects six forgotten masterpieces. And yes. They are real. Why would you even think to say that we made this shit up? We would never write something ourselves and call it masterpieces. We are too humble for that.Six masterpieces. Well, you can decide.There is the episode of Doctor Jeckyll's Two Face Saloon where a man comes in to play Hangman wi...

David wrote two similar memoirs in the form of lists. One was all the monsters he loved before he was 13. The second memoir was all the heroes he loved before he became a teen.This collects both 100 Monsters and 100 Heroes. What makes a hero you love? What makes a monster you love? Can they be the same character?These two little books were meant to be together.And now they are

A few weeks ago, I received a zine by the prolific self-publisher, Marc Fischer, called the Self Initiated Hotel Artist Residency. It talked about using a cheap hotel room for several days as a kind of studio. This is not a new idea, but it was nice to see that notion explored so well by a talented writer.He asked for those of us who have used a hotel as an artists' retreat to write him and send him a line. And that is what this is.This open letter addressed to Marc sketche...

Bad writing doesn’t just happen. It takes time and effort. Bad writing is not something anyone can do. It requires a dedicated student to master the wrong turns and poor decisions that are necessary to excel in lousy work.There are many books and workshops that offer good writing advice. But none for bad writing advice. Where can we go to get the awful suggestion?Fret no more. We have spent years compiling this helpful and useless list. There is not a good idea in the lot. ...

Some people like comic books. They read them. They collect them. They grade them and sell them for a profit. Or, at least, they try to sell them for a profit. Comic book people love their comics from superheroes to romance to funny animals. These are the books that define them. Comic people love to talk about comics.Here, in these pages, comic book people have a chance to take center stage and tell about their comics. Each chapter is another person telling their story.Some ...

In 2019, I was going to turn fifty and had my midlife crisis by wallowing in the comic books I loved as a kid.I started buying comic books again. Not new comics. Hell no. I was keyed into old comics.The shit I read when I was a kid.When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I spent all my money on comic books. I would go to the local shop on Saturdays and buy a large wedge of books and spend the next week reading them all.I loved all of them, but would they all stand up?

Don't ask Dave how many times he has seen Rocky Horror Picture Show. He doesn't remember. He does remember enough of his time seeing the movie to write about it. This not THE Rocky Horror story. It is only a Rocky Horror Story.The Hangover Hour Report is a new journal where each issue allows an writer to create whatever they want. The one rule is that it must be completed in 72 hours.

A lot of people read Perry Rhodan novels. Just not here in the English speaking world. In Germany, the science fiction novels about Perry Rhodan are published once a week. They are rip roaring space operas.There is nearly sixty years of Perry Rhodan novels. But they never took off in America.David Macpherson picked up a bunch of Perry Rhodan novels that were translated and published in the 1970s. He reads eight of those books and takes you along for the ride. While reading the book...

Every fella needs a joint to sit down and have a beer at. The bar, O. Onions, caters to thirsty folk who also can bring the dead back to life. Just because they are reanimators doesn’t mean they don’t get thirsty.The FlipSwitch happened: where some people got some powers. That created telepaths, pyrokinetics and a bunch of other talents. For some reason, those who got the power to bring corpses back to life does not get the respect others do.They gather at O. Onions, where ...

Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker's 1982 video "You Got Lucky" is considered one of the important early music videos. It blended this new form of film with science fiction.This book is a second by second look at that video. It is serious, funny and irreverent. "In This Reality" is an examination of a four minute and thirty second movie. It is a chance to see how the possibilities and variety a small narrative can offer.