Evan Purcell

Here is one very cool school visit. Of course, I signed some books. And met all the awesome staff. But I also got a very tra...

Here I am signing books for some of the students in India. Each one got a personal monster drawing from yours truly.

My first visit to India was amazing! I went to six different schools and talked to the students about monsters. What a cool job I have! ...

Congratulations to another winning monster! Melania did a great job with her monster Jelly Freeze. It was so hard to judge this contest...

Varsha Seshan is a critic and blogger in India. She just posted a really inciteful piece called " The Problem with Monster Stereotypes ...

Karma Fights a Monster is hot off the presses. Check it out. (And as always, my students in Bhutan are super smiley.)

This was a Kazakhstan/American wedding in the mountains just outside Almaty, Kazakhstan. I danced all night. Badly. And I...

All my writing experience has prepared me for this. After publishing a bunch of horror shorts for anthologies big and small , and af...

San Cicaro is a coastal resort town in California where strange things happen every day. I was lucky enough to be included in this tra...

"When I started reading it, I hoped there would be ‘real’ monsters, not allegorical or imagined monsters. I was not disappointed. The m...

My new series Karma Tandin: Monster Hunter got a nice shout-out from Indian children's author and editor Sayoni Basu . I've worked ...

"Karma is a protagonist that every child can easily identify with. He is not shown to be a superhero of sorts, though he is the famed m...

"Through this monster story, Purcell has tried to introduce the issues that kids face in their lives and how everyone has to struggle a...

WARNING: This is a horror fiction podcast. It is intended for mature adults, not the faint of heart. Join us at your own risk... NoSlee...

Zara and I got to visit a really cool paper-making factory in Samarkand, Uzbekistan!

So I wrote a story about a fictional character in a cereal commercial who suddenly realizes that she's in a cereal commercial. She goe...

And yes, it really does sing.

I actually heart Samarkand (not Sam), but the stranger we asked to take the photo didn't understand how photography works.

Guess where I am. I'll give you two clues. Clue #1: This is definitely not Kazakhstan. Clue #2: That first clue was a lie. ...

Happy New Year, everyone! And don't we all deserve a happy ending to one of the craziest years of the century? Personally, I...

And what have you done? Another year older. And you still haven’t read my killer Santa story in Deathlehem Revisited . Shame on you. I...

I f you didn’t catch all my excited Facebook posts last week (and I can understand why, because things have been a bit cluttered on socia...

Howdy! I'm a black-necked crane. I'm the official mascot for Scary Stories from Bhutan , the brand new anthology written entirely...

That’s right! Five more days until Scary Stories from Bhutan escapes from the haunted corners of your local library. Just a reminder: Ea...

Do you like HP Lovecraft? Do you like ghostly hitchhikers and fish creatures and ancient, tentacled gods who watch over us from space? Yeah....

Unicorns are beautiful creatures… until they disembowel you with that horn. Mermaids are the gorgeous women of the sea… before the...

Buzzing electricity. Reanimated flesh. A yellow eye slowly opening. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has given pop culture s...

Happy Halloween, boils and ghouls! It’s that time of year again. Time to slide on your Haunted Mask, pop Hocus Pocus into the VCR, and eat a...