The Funhole arrives at the archives

It took more than a few months to gather, sift and sort through all the notes, research pages, drafts, editorial letters, foul matter, cover flats, and manuscripts manuscripts manuscripts, of my first horror novels - The Cipher, Bad Brains, Skin, Strange Angels, and Kink - to properly list and re-box and ship to their new home at the University of Pittsburgh’s Archives and Special Collections.

I’d been talking, through those months, with Dr. Ben Rubin, director of the Horror Studies Collection, and Ben’s enthusiasm as much as his erudition made me certain that Pitt was the right place for my work. And knowing that scholars, writers, and readers will now be able to access that work is a wholly terrific feeling. if you’re a horror writer reading this now, you’ll already know that the Horror Writers Association has placed their own archives at Pitt, too. What a wealth of material! I’m so pleased and proud to be part of this growing and important archive of American horror literature.