(FANGORIA memoirs will return in the next blog; meanwhile, here’s a taste of things to come…)

A kid with a shovel whacks the protagonist around the head, not realizing a zombie is shambling up the street toward them.

Gunfire.

The dead thing drops.

Breakfast in New York City with “Dapper” Dave:

So the first thing I do after sleeping on makeup FX artist Tom Lauten’s floor in his rented room in Larchmont, Long Island, is head into the Big Bad Apple to meet with Everitt, who has offered to take me to breakfast.

I had planned to write a rave review of Niels Arden Oplev’s terrific film of Steig Larson’s incredible novel THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO for this second blog, but due to all the insanity surrounding the publication of my new book CITIES OF NIGHT, I haven’t had the time to go see the must-watch movie a second time and have only just finished the book.

Understand this:

Just because I have been writing for FANGORIA for 29 years, when I was designated the magazine’s first—and only—official British correspondent, and have possibly have had more cover stories than any other scribe who has contributed to the red-soaked publication…I am not a gorehound.