speculation publications

  • Spec Pub Kickstarter – LOADING…THE MACHINE CHILD by TT Madden

    Spec Pub Kickstarter – LOADING…THE MACHINE CHILD by TT Madden

    It’s a hard time to publish indie but Spec Pub is running our second ever kickstarter to fund our second novella of utter speculation. This book is fun, weird, deep and, I think, rather important. LOADING…THE MACHINE CHILD is written by a frequent contributor to Spec Pub, TT Madden. Read more

  • The Vampire Party

    The Vampire Party

    I realize this is coming up a bit late (about a month) but it takes a lot to recover from a vampire party. Especially one as fun as the Vampire Hunters : An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts Release Celebration at Vampa : Vampire and Paranormal Museum. Special Thanks to Ed Crimi and Megan Flanagan Read more

  • Join us for a Vampire Weekend! VAMPIRE hUNTERS release celebration at Vampa museum

    Join us for a Vampire Weekend! VAMPIRE hUNTERS release celebration at Vampa museum

    VAMPIRE HUNTERS: AN INCOMPLETE RECORD OF PERSONAL ACCOUNTS is our biggest anthology yet and so it only makes sense for us to throw the biggest release party we’ve ever attempted. With the help of the very cool people at Vampa: Vampire and Paranormal Museum in Doylestown we are vamping out for a whole day, with… Read more

  • Warminster Library Author Fair, this Saturday

    Warminster Library Author Fair, this Saturday

    I will have a table this weekend, Saturday August 2nd, from 1-4 at the Warminster Library, in Warminster Pennsylvania Read more

  • Vampire Hunters is out Tuesday, July 22

    Vampire Hunters is out Tuesday, July 22

    VAMPIRE HUNTERS: AN INCOMPLETE RECORD OF PERSONAL ACCOUNTS is out Tuesday, July 22. A family secret. A calling passed down through generations. The Record Keepers. A reclusive old man writes to his niece, passing on a legacy of wealth and responsibility. “Vampire are real and so are those who hunt them. We collect and keep… Read more

  • Scenes from StokerCon 2025

    Scenes from StokerCon 2025

    I have found my people. A week after getting home, I am finally recovered enough to share some of my pictures from the weekend in Stamford Ct. My editorial partner, River Eno, and I went non-stop all weekend with new and old friends, amazing panels and late night ghost hunts around the hotel. Some highlights Read more

  • Being an Indie Publisher

    Being an Indie Publisher

    Indie presses always have a bit of an uphill battle. Both lauded as fresh, new, exciting, a place for new ideas and authors and disparaged as out there, cheap, poor quality, a place for weird shit and authors. They are, of course, all those things Read more

  • Horror on Main

    Horror on Main

    From June 28-30 I will be extra terrifying when I join River Eno at our table for Speculation Publications in the dealers room of Horror on Main in Harrisburg. Read more

  • Check in

    Check in

    The last month has been BUSY and although I really wanted to keep up the momentum of posting every week, I just ran out of steam by the time I got here, but it’s all very good things. Read more

  • Feature Article on Ginger Nuts of Horror: When I started Speaking to Monsters

    Feature Article on Ginger Nuts of Horror: When I started Speaking to Monsters

    GNoH published my feature a few weeks ago and I’m just getting a chance to share it here now. Check it out and let me know what you think, and check out the other reviews, articles, and features of Jim McCleod’s great site exploring the horror genre. Read more