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The Red Room is dead, long live the Red Room… I did a lot of stupid things in the Red Room. It’s a bit jaw-dropping to look back and reflect on all the half-assed stunts me and my cohorts pulled off in front of a live, ticket-buying audience—all in the name of downtown theater. To think that we wer...

I wrote an Avengers comic! Not only… It's the cover story! And it hits the shelves today. Check out The Avenger's: Earth's Mightiest Heroes #10. If you're looking for an adorable lil' story about what it's like for Ultron to take over your body for evil purposes, then this is the comic for you… It'...

Greetings from Santiniketan! Every year since 2006, my wife and I have ventured across the pond to India around the holidays. It's an excuse to get off the grid for a bit and do nothing but write and read a lot of books under the mosquito net. This year, we decided to bring the newest addition to th...

A while back I was invited by the super cool theatre company The Debate Society to write a 15 second play. It'd be included in an anthology of other 15 second plays written by a bunch of really awesome writers. I've done a pretty good job at writing some pretty awful plays in my life, so the notion ...

Tonight, our short film HENLEY screens at the Cucalorus Annual Festival of Independent Film in Wilmington, North Carolina. It will be the seventeenth film festival HENLEY will have screened at since we hit up the circuit last year, kickstarting the blitz with the Gen Art Film Festival in NYC. It was...

Woke up this morning to face some pretty intense winds outside our home. Sandy's a coming, and she's looking to be a pretty mean one. But to be honest, I've been caught up in a whirlwind ever since Thursday… The Pumpkin Pie Show blew through town in a three-night blitz. We sold out each performance...

So here's a totally new experience for me… Today, I'm going to go to Forbidden Planet in Union Square. I'm going to go up to the cashier and ask, "Do you have a copy of Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man #7?" And the cashier is going to say something like, "Yeah, we, like, just got that issue in to...

One week before my first Spider-Man storyline hits the shelves (Oct 24, hint, hint), I'm super-psyched to announce the release of my first Avengers comic! Not only, but it looks like my story made the front cover! Woot-woot! (Check out the cool cover by Khoi Pham over to your left.) I whipped up a...

The folks over at Fangoria asked me to review the classic Connie Stevens' corker "Two on a Guillotine" for their Fango Flashback section. For those out there who love mad magician movies, William Castle rip-offs, completely inconsequential jazz numbers and possessed bunny rabbits, then this film is ...

Playwright Mac Rogers was invited by the editors of The Brooklyn Rail to expound upon any particular performance of his choosing happening throughout the month of October. For some ungodly reason, he picked The Pumpkin Pie Show. I'd just like to take this opportunity to say… God bless Mac Rogers. ...

Glass Eye Pix posted some great shots from opening night of "Tales from Beyond the Pale." The evening at Dixon Place was documented by filmmakers (and pals) Noah Greenberg and Craig Macneill, capturing our live performances of Joe Maggio's "Ram King" and my very own "Like Father, Like Son" with none...

Earlier this week, Deadline reported in an exclusive that Elijah Wood has partnered up with Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller to form The Woodshed, an indie production company whose sole goal in life is to make some of scariest horror movies you'll ever see. Looking over their slate of upcoming produc...

We've been in the bowels of Dixon Place for the last couple days, gearing up for tonight's premiere pairing of Joe Maggio's "Ram King" and my very own "Like Father, Like Son" for Glass Eye Pix's radio play series Tales from Beyond the Pale. It's been a blast putting these shows together with Glenn M...

You go to the dentist. You're stuck in the waiting room. What do you do? You pick up a copy of Entertainment Weekly and flip through. But rather than settle in on an interview with Robert Pattinson… What's this? An article about Glass Eye Pix's upcoming Tales from Beyond the Pale? Oh ho! It's an em...

Glass Eye Pix, the fiercely independent film company behind STAKE LAND, THE INNKEEPERS and I SELL THE DEAD, in association with Clay McLeod Chapman’s FEAR-MONGERS: FIRESIDE CHATS ABOUT HORROR FILMS, is taking its successful audio dramas TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE out of the studio and onto the stage...

The folks at Glass Eye Pix have just unveiled the new poster for my story "Like Father, Like Son" in part of their radio play series Tales from Beyond the Pale. It's a thing of beauty. Ghoulish beauty, for sure, but when it's by none other than the Ghoulish Gary Pullin himself, would you expect anyt...

It's that time of year again… Time for another Pumpkin Pie Show. The folks at Nytheatre.com were kind enough to throw a couple questions my way about me and the show. You can read the interview here: http://bit.ly/TvtO7f How much of a jackass am I in this interview? Too much? Not enough? We are on...

God bless you, Flavorpill. This year's Pumpkin Pie Show is an editor's pick once again. Not only: John Peacock goes out of his way to say some pretty darn spectacular things about us and the show. Check this out: "Sick storytelling genius Clay McLeod Chapman's Pumpkin Pie Show returns to shock and b...

Sorry about the radio silence as of late… But with good reason, I swear! Please allow me to introduce you to Jasper Jagat Chapman, born on September 13th. He's a heartbreaker, a name-taker, and rump-shaker. Ladies, I'm warning you now. This kid will melt your heart with one burp. The world's your o...

The folks at the cable network FEARnet have picked our film LATE BLOOMER to screen online for free alongside some other majorly creepy shorts. I'm warning you now: Click at your own expense. After watching one short, it becomes increasingly easier and easier to click onto the next short. And the ne...

Awesome announcement time! I can officially let the cat out of the bag on this one now… This October, I'm teaming up with Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid from Glass Eye Pix to present the second season of TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE, a series of spooky "radio plays for the digital age." To push o...

(2013) New York City. 1920. A legless beggar pleads with the oncoming foot-traffic for spare change. Barely a nickel comes his way. But what these pedestrians don’t know is—this deformed derelict at their heels is none other than Blizzard, kingpin to the seedy underbelly of the Lower East Side. With...

Just got word that a new play of mine—"The Penalty," inspired by the 1920 Lon Chaney silent film, will be given a developmental reading in part of The Kennedy Center's 11th Annual Page To Stage Festival! "The Penalty" is a commissioned piece by The Apothetae, along with Dixon Place. The Apothetae i...

So. Back in 2006, I did a reading. I read a story from my first book of short stories called "the pool witch." It's a rambunctious story about three boys behaving very, very badly at a water park. In the audience was this children's book editor. We never talked or met each other that night. I never...

Just in time for Friday the 13th, the NY Times has a lovely lil' story in today's paper about all the various odds and spooky ends of horror theater (and cinema) happening this summer right here in NYC. And look who gets quoted, but yours truly… To read the article, click here: http://nyti.ms/Nl5jV...