I cannot believe it's already 2026, and February no less. I've been busy trying to get the backlog of unfinished content on my hard drives pulled together, edited, and released....
Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, by Becky Siegel Spratford, is such a thoughtful collection of essays and reflections on horror, edited by one of the genre's true...
If you're curious about the music I've released over the years, here's a sample track from my artist/project name SONIC INKWELL called Deep Water. The link below is a music...
A.J. McWain is an author and musician living in Massachusetts with his wife, daughter, and their gray rescue cat. He’s been telling stories his whole life and is now finally spending more time writing them down. Trained as a jazz pianist and composer, he spent years performing, teaching, and recording avant-garde, electronic, and cinematic music before turning to writing. A veteran who served as a military police specialist in Iraq and Kuwait with the Massachusetts Army National Guard, McWain brings varied experiences to his storytelling. His published work blends sci-fi, horror, dystopian, and post-apocalyptic elements. Read more at ajmcwain.com.
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A.J. McWain is an author/musician/composer living in Massachusetts with his wife, daughter, and their gray rescue cat. He’s been telling stories his whole life and is now finally spending more time writing them down.
Trained as a jazz pianist and composer with a master’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, McWain spent years performing, teaching, and recording avant-garde, electronic, and cinematic music before turning to writing. As a composer, his creative work has been honored by grants from the American Music Center, ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, and with residencies from Akiyoshidai Art Village (JPN), Atlantic Center for the Arts (FL), and Yaddo (NY).
A veteran who served as a military police specialist in Iraq and Kuwait with the Massachusetts Army National Guard, McWain brings varied experiences to his storytelling. His published work blends sci-fi, horror, dystopian, and post-apocalyptic elements. Read more at ajmcwain.com.
A.J. McWain is an author and musician living in Massachusetts with his wife, daughter, and their gray rescue cat. He’s been telling stories his whole life and is now finally spending more time writing them down. Trained as a jazz pianist and composer, he spent years performing, teaching, and recording avant-garde, electronic, and cinematic music before turning to writing. A veteran who served as a military police specialist in Iraq and Kuwait...
To some, the basement is simply a place to store holiday decorations and old paint cans. To many, though, it’s a source of terror—a residence for creepy crawlies and the unknown. Dive into the depths of these twenty tales of basement horror, and you’ll run up the stairs a little faster the next time you go down to reset your circuit breaker!
The time has finally come for humanity to conquer Mars. Or die trying.Though robotic explorers have vastly increased our knowledge about the Red Planet, there's still so much we don't know. Will Mars be a second home for humanity? Or will it usher in our destruction?Thirteen hard science fiction writers take on the big questions in this...
