Updates

Super special thanks to Cinema Blend for adding our feature film THE BOY to their awesome list "10 Exciting SXSW Movies You're Going To Be Hearing A Ton About." The pressure is on now! To read the list, click here: http://bit.ly/1A5XGfL

It's official... Our feature film THE BOY will have its world premiere in competition at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival. Austin, here we come! THE BOY Director: Craig Macneill, Screenwriters: Craig Macneill, Clay McLeod Chapman THE BOY is an intimate portrait of a 9-year-old sociopath's growing fascin...

I'm coming for you, Jersey...

The word is out... POP! Vertigo just announced the first issue of their upcoming quarterly anthology: SFX. Lo and behold, I'll have a comic in it titled EARWIG OUT. Here's what Vertigo has to say: "Comics luminaries will converge with the next generation of talent as they interpret four different so...

Time Out NY just called me a "horror-drunk storytelling virtuoso master idiot" and I couldn't be happier. FOUR STARS! We're a CRITIC'S PICK! The Pumpkin Pie Show: Seasick "is thoroughly marvelous and gross and peculiar, not to mention a cause for huge, unbecoming snorts of laughter." To read the fu...

I was invited on the Midtown Comics Podcast last week to chat about my upcoming issue of Edge of Spider-Verse #4. Shout outs to Ellie Pyle and Elia 骨 Bonetti for helping create the creepiest Spider-Man yet! Out this Wednesday! You can listen to the podcast here: http://bit.ly/1rzeE0c

My Giant Spider achieves "scary dude" status on this kickass Spider-Verse Status Chart over at the awesome blog Whatever A Spider Can. Check it out here:‬ http://t.co/B8j7BgIELY Countdown to issue #4 has begun! October 1st is right around the corner...

Marvel just released a sneak peak of our insanely scary-awesome EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE #4. Check out Elia Bonetti's beautifully creepy work here and pick up your own copy on October 1st! OMG OMG OMG... It looks so beautiful it looks so beautiful: http://bit.ly/1uG8EBC

We're back from Colombia... Now it's time to edit this baby boy into a moooooooooovie!

The Pumpkin Pie Show has always loved Fangoria Magazine... And the kind folks at Fango have given a little bit of that love back to us with their kind write-up for our upcoming NYC show -- SEASICK. "One of the absolute best bets of any New York City spooky season is the annual iteration of the visc...

The Pumpkin Pie Show. NYC. Coming soon. October 2014. This one's gonna be a doozy.

Super-cool comic artist Greg Land has whipped up some super-creepy variant cover art for my upcoming EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE story "I WALKED WITH A SPIDER." Check it out, along with his other covers, here: http://bit.ly/1xCbozZ

HOLY MOLY THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT MY STORY LINE AT A COMIC CON PANEL RIGHT FRIGGING NOW AND I'M STUCK ON THE EAST COAST: "Issue #4 by Clay McLeod Chapman and Elia Bonetti is terrifying. It's probably closer to Metamorphosis by Kafka than anything by Stan Lee." Read it here: http://bit.ly/1rGh3GV

Hey. Watcha doin' tonight? Watching CHILLING VISIONS: 5 STATES OF FEAR on Chiller TV, of course! Tune in at 9 PM tonight to see our segment "The Trouble With Dad" in part of this five-part anthology horror feature. Co-written and co-starring that guy in the picture over there. TGIF! To find out mor...

I was fortunate enough to write a post for the 2014 TCG National Conference: Crossing Borders {Art | People} blog salon, curated by Caridad Svich. You can read my article "I'll Be Your One-Way Mirror: Crossing the 4th Wall" here, where I talk all about The Pumpkin Pie Show vs Law & Order. Read the...

The reviews are in for the European premiere of our indie-rock musical HOSTAGE SONG and we're getting a solid thumbs up. Here are some kick-ass pull quotes: "Raw performances draw the emotion and horror from a blunt, hard-hitting script... Clay McLeod Chapman’s writing gathers momentum and becomes ...

Just got my author copy of the new BREAKFAST ON MARS paperback and it looks taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasty! I got to write an essay for this kick-ass collection called SHOWERING WITH SPIDERS. Spoiler: It's never fun to shower with spiders. FYI.

Let the countdown begin! Three weeks away until the anthology CHILLING VISIONS: 5 STATES OF FEAR airs on Chiller TV, featuring the short THE TROUBLE WITH DAD written by myself and director Glenn McQuaid! Make it to the 1-minute mark and you can see the TV promo for our film! See if you can spot me.....

Look who's down in Hotlanta, Georgia recording the audio-book version of the story-triptych COMMENCEMENT... It's none other than the kick-ass Hanna Cheek! This one's going to be intense. Your ears will not be able to handle this one, we promise you. More updates to come!

I just created a new character in the Marvel universe. The anti-Peter Parker. The anti-Spider-Man. And now I can talk all about it in this kick-ass profile over at the Marvel Comics website! You can read the article "On the Edge of Spider-Verse: Patton Parnell" here: http://bit.ly/1mNWKA6 This is ...

It's official! Comic Book Resources just made the announcement... So I can too: "Marvel's upcoming "Spider-Verse" event is set to start in November 2014, but the publisher is first setting the table in September and October with the five-issue "Edge of Spider-Verse" series. Each issue will be by a ...

Here's a fun teaser for the anthology film CHILLING VISIONS: 5 STATES OF FEAR featuring our short THE TROUBLE WITH DAD (written by me and director Glenn McQuaid). Spooooooky times. You can check it out here: http://bit.ly/1lWUDL5 CHILLING VISIONS airs on the Chiller network Friday, July 11th at 9 P...

This is a pretty extensive interview about the last twenty years of my life. The kind folks over at Drunk Monkeys (yes, Drunk Monkeys) asked me all about The Boy, The Pumpkin Pie Show, Rest Area and Miss Corpus, among a million other things. Thanks to Gabriel Ricard for making me feel like people ac...

7 CITIES. 10(-ish) DAYS. 10 READINGS. It's the... CAMP CANNIBAL "EAT 'EM UP" EAST COAST BOOK TOUR! In celebration of the release of THE TRIBE II: CAMP CANNIBAL, we are chewing through the eastern seaboard (and then some). New York. Maryland. Washington, DC. Virginia. And... Colorado. WE ARE COMING ...

Wanna see new works by John Guare? Neil LaBute? Clay McLeod Chapman? Then you should check out this awesome festival at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. From Broadway World: "Nine Signs of the Times, a sequel to the 2007 festival Five Story Walkup and the 2010 festival Seven Card Draw, runs April 11-13 at ...