Evan Purcell

  Shiny, red noses. Painted faces. Dead eyes. There’s something wrong with this clown, and no one will believe me! He wants our children...

  They have eight legs; red, segmented eyes; frothy mandibles; and enough poison to take down an elephant. They are spiders, the deadlie...

  There’s something pure and squicky about horror flash fiction. You read one story in a couple minutes, and hopefully it creeps you out...

My horror short " Volcano " is a gnarly little number about a science project gone wrong. It's pretty dark.

They’re coming for you, Barbara! They’re coming for you… Zombies are awesome. They’re walking, talking (er… grunting) little allego...

What Has Two Heads, Ten Eyes, and Terrifying Table Manners? This anthology ! It also has wild anti-heroes, neon green tentacles, ho...

 Re-Animator. Snow White. The Necronomicon. Sleeping Beauty. What do these words have in common? Absolutely nothing… Unt...

Are you ready for some more Lovecraft? I sure hope so, because the Old Ones are  back to scare the crap out of you in this new casebook of...

I’ve finally been accepted into a comedy magazine! It’s been a while since I was featured in Cracked.com, and I was starting to give up ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the blog…   It’s been a slow summer (playing around in Russia and all that), but I ...

Thanks to my amazing Russian coworkers, I had a surprise birthday party today!

If anyone is interested in contacting me, feel free to check out my VK account . VK is the Russian rip-off of Facebook. It’s exactly like F...

Last year, I wrote a romantic fantasy called Island on Fire. I was sick of reading about vampires and other pale guys who morph into wolves...

Hey everyone! Big news! My dad has a brand new western mystery coming out through an online publisher called Mysterical-E . It’s a cliffhan...

Everybody has a microwave. It’s an important part of any kitchen, especially if you’re lazy and/or addicted to ramen noodles. But what did ...

Hey everyone! I got a nice shout-out in Bleeding Cool News . They wrote some pretty nice things about the Mythos Grimmly anthology that’s c...

Hey everyone! You wanna win a free copy of my new romance ? Of course you do. You’re a very cheap person! Don’t be ashamed. That’s why I ...

Well, everyone! The day is finally here! My new romance novel Waking Up to Love is FINALLY available on Amazon as well as through Crimson ...

I have an Amazon author page . Probably should’ve mentioned that earlier. You can see all my latest information there. Well, not ALL my inf...

Hello, internet. I try to keep this blog as up-to-date as possible. That can be a little difficult because 1) I live in Gansu Province,...

Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to be included in a pretty awesome sci-fi anthology called Far Worlds . The book collected stories ...

H. P. Lovecraft was the man. I mean, he was kind of a hermit, and he wasn’t the best husband, and he was ridiculously racist… but his stori...

What’s spookier than fairy tales? How about fairy tales mashed-up with Lovecraft. A Mythos Grimmly is an anthology that re-imagines clas...

I wrote another short story about a killer kid . I think it might be the scariest thing I’ve written. And this comes from a guy who wrote a...

Once upon a time (2012), I wrote a screenplay for a horror comedy called Beaver Madness. It was about a google-eyed beaver mascot who goes ...

The 3-Day Novel Contest is one of the coolest parts of my writing career. (It took a lot of effort not to put “career” in sarcastic quo...

   If you’re ever in LA and you have a free afternoon, go to the LA Zoo. And no, I’m not talking about the current zoo. I’m talking ...