Skull Session with Dan Henk

Send us Fan Mail Brett's short story, Ol' Betsy, was the winner of 2018's Seattle Crypticon.   "Brett McKay is a writer to watch." - F. Paul Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of The Keep and the Repairman Jack series. "This is a fast-paced, page-turner, entertaining read to while away a couple of hours." - Ron K. Read 4 Fun If you want to support me and h...

Send us Fan Mail Bob Eggleton is an American science fiction, fantasy and horror artist. Eggleton is a nine-time Hugo Award–winner for Best Pro Artist in science fiction and fantasy, first winning in 1994.  He has designed concepts for Star Trek, Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius, and The Ant Bully as well as creating art for publishers, magazines, books, and media projects. Spacewatch named Asteroid 13562...

Send us Fan Mail  Victor Varnado is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is an African American man with albinism. He was born legally blind due to his albinism. He landed his first role in the Big River Productions film Full Moon Rising. Soon after, his role in Giraffe Films' "Kids Adventures in Oz" spurred him to move to New York. His first big break came when he landed a r...

Send us Fan Mail Donato Giancola specializes in narrative realism with science-fiction and fantasy content, including images for Tolkien's Middle-earth. He has won Chelsy Awards, and many others, for his illustrations. Giancola has illustrated cards for the Majic: The Gathering collectible card game.  A "three-ounce" stamp set for the U.S. Postal Service featuring Ursala K. Le Guin,...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff Zornow is a world-renowned comic artist and Illustrator. He worked for franchises such as GODZILLA, JURASSIC PARK, HALLOWEEN, ALICE COOPER, MISFITS, and SCOOBY-DOO, to original projects and the graphic novels GORGON, RISING REBELS, ‘68, and many others. He resides somewhere in New York City, with a mysterious ninja cat. I first met Jeff when I attended Monster Mania in 2014....

Send us Fan Mail Patrick Lacey was born and raised in a haunted house. He currently spends his nights and weekends writing about things that make the general public uncomfortable. He lives in Massachusetts, in a hopefully non-haunted house, with his wife, daughter, and over-sized cat. Follow him on Twitter (@patlacey), find him on Facebook, or visit his website at https://patrickclacey.wordpress.c...

Send us Fan Mail Good friend and fellow tattoo artist Brian Murphy talks about his storied career. From an upbringing by a police officer dad, through artist success as a gallery oil painter, struggling through a crippling heroin addiction, and then getting clean and moving to Stroudsburg, PA.  The shop he established there, Third Dimension Tattoo, is now consistently rated as one of the best in t...

Send us Fan Mail William Cook lives and writes in New Zealand. His genre-spanning work includes novels, short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. His dark psychological horror and thriller fiction include the novel 'Blood Related' and the collections, 'Babylon Fading' and 'Dark Deaths.' Other popular titles include the 'Psychological Horror Stories series and '...

Send us Fan Mail Adam Millard is the author of twenty-nine novels, thirteen novellas, and more than two hundred short stories, which can be found in various collections, magazines, and anthologies. Probably best known for his post-apocalyptic and comedy-horror fiction, Adam also writes fantasy/horror for children and Bizarro fiction for several publishers. His work has been translated for the Germ...

Send us Fan Mail Now living in Mexico, Daniel Eaves is a horror author who released his debut collection of short stories, "Tales For Dark Hours", via   Splatterpunk Zine publications, in 2022.  I painted the cover, and so far the book has garnered some great reviews. If you want to support me and help give light to indie authors, go to https://www.buzzsprout.com/2058263/support and give...

Send us Fan Mail Walter Simonson is an American comic book writer and artist, best known for a run on Marvel Comics Thor from 1983 to 1987, during which he created the character B et Ray Bill. He is also known for the creator-owned work S tar Slammers, which he inaugurated in 1972 as a Rhode Island School of Design thesis. He has also worked on other Marvel titles such asX-Factor and Fantastic Fou...

Send us Fan Mail The third iteration of my interview with comics legend Steve Bissette. A huge inspiration in my early career, I just couldn't bring myself to cut this interview any shorter! If you want to support me and help give light to indie authors, go to https://www.buzzsprout.com/2058263/support and give what you can! All my social media links- https://linktr.ee/DanHenk Support the sho...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 2 of my interview with legendary horror artist, and personal inspiration, Steve Bisette. If you want to support me and help give light to indie authors, go to https://www.buzzsprout.com/2058263/support and give what you can! All my social media links- https://linktr.ee/DanHenk Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Bissette is best known for his multiple award-winning collaborations with writer Alan Moore and inker John Totleben on the DC Comic's Saga of the Swamp Thing. (1983–1987). Under the company name of Spiderbaby Grafix, he later published the horror anthology Taboo, the original home of Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell, and Tim Lucas's Throat Sprockets, illustrated...

Send us Fan Mail Brendan Vidito is the author of the Wonderland Award-winning collection of body horror stories, Nightmares in Ecstasy (Clash Books, 2018) and Pornography for the End of the World (Weirdpunk Books, 2022). He also co-edited the Splatterpunk Award-nominated anthology The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg (Weirdpunk Books, 2019) with Sam Richard. You can visit him at b...

Send us Fan Mail Christine Morgan divides her writing time among many genres, from horror to historical, from superheroes to smut, anything in between, and combinations thereof.  She is the author of multiple novels, including the Splatterpunk Award-Winning LAKEHOUSE INFERNAL. Her short stories have appeared in dozens of anthologies and several collections.  If you want to support me and help give...

Send us Fan Mail Paul Shrimpton is the bassist for the ska-punk band Deadbeat at Dawn, a horror writer, and a filmmaker at Create4k. If you want to support me and help give light to indie authors, go to https://www.buzzsprout.com/2058263/support and give what you can! All my social media links- https://linktr.ee/DanHenk Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Bracken MacLeod is the Bram Stoker, Splatterpunk, and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of the novels, MOUNTAIN HOME, STRANDED, COME TO DUST, and CLOSING COSTS (available in hardcover and paperback from William Morrow). His short fiction has been collected in WHITE KNIGHT AND OTHER PAWNS and 13 VIEWS OF THE SUICIDE WOODS, which the New York Times Book Review called, "Sup...

Send us Fan Mail Chad has written for Famous Monsters of Filmland, Rue Morgue, Cemetery Dance, and Scream magazine. He's had dozens of short stories published, and some of his books include: OF FOSTER HOMES & FLIES, STIRRING THE SHEETS, THE PALE WHITE, SKULLFACE BOY, THE NEON OWL, and OUT BEHIND THE BARN with John Boden. Lutzke's work has been praised by authors Jack Ketchum, Richard...

Send us Fan Mail John Boden was mostly raised in the small town of Orbisonia in the mountains of Pennsylvania.  He currently resides with his beautiful wife and two sons, in a house sweetly haunted by the ghost of a beautician named, Darlene.  His writing is well-received and has been called unique in style.  If you want to support me and help give light to indie authors, go to https://www.buzzspr...

Send us Fan Mail Mark McLaughlin has written horror and dark fantasy fiction for most of his life, while still working as a consultant in marketing and public relations.  His works have appeared in hundreds of magazines, websites, and anthologies worldwide. In 2023, he was a Guest of Honor at the Necronomicon Tampa convention, along with his collaborator and best friend, Michael Sheehan, Jr. McLau...

Send us Fan Mail Scott Cole is the author of Crazytimes, Triple Axe, and SuperGhost, as well as two collections of short fiction, Departures and Slices. He's also an artist and graphic designer. If you want to support me, go to  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2058263/support and give what you can! Dan Henk on Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/AuthorDanHenk Dan Henk on Instagram: https://www.instag...

Send us Fan Mail  Born in 1980, Matt Shaw is the award-winning published author of over 200 stories. His work has been translated into Japanese, Korean, German, and French - as well as being adapted into graphic novels.  In 2018, Matt Shaw directed and produced his first feature film, MONSTER (available on Amazon), and, in 2019, he went on to produce and direct his second feature, NEXT DOOR.  If y...

Send us Fan Mail Patrick C. Harrison III (PC3, if you prefer) is an author of horror, splatterpunk, and all forms of speculative fiction. His current publications include GRANDPAPPY, 100% MATCH, A SAVAGE BREED, and VAMPIRE NUNS BEHIND BARS, among others. His works can also be found in various anthologies, including AND HELL FOLLOWED and ROAD KILL: TEXAS HORROR BY TEXAS AUTHORS VOL. 4.  PC3 is also...

Send us Fan Mail Carver Pike is a 3x Splatterpunk Award-nominated horror author. He hosts my own YouTube show called First Chapter Freakshow where he reads other horror authors’ books and talks about the world of indie horror publishing. If you want to support me and help give light to indie authors, go to https://www.buzzsprout.com/2058263/support and give what you can! All my social media links-...