Mark Mellon

Happy upcoming Celtic New Year's Eve, everyone! Hope you're all in that consumed with dread, troubled by nightmares, mentally and emotionally destroyed by visions of cosmic horror, jolly holiday sort of mood. #lovecraft #halloween #horror #cosmichorror 😱😱😱😱

Lost Boys Press antho, Great Wars on sale, featuring my yarn "Sea Battle." Thrill as a single French steamship takes on the British Royal Navy. In hard cover or paperback with lots of other cool merch! #alternatehistory #militarysf #warfiction lostboyspress.shop/collectio…

Cowboy Jamboree's new issue is out, featuring my story "A Hunting Party," based loosely on my grandfather, Matthew Benzaquin (pictured below). It's available for free to read: cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/c… #texasfiction #hunting #cowboyjamboree #larrymcmurtry 🤠🤠🤠🤠🤠

I got in the holiday season last night with El Dia De La Bestia, a Spanish horror comedy by the masterful Alex de la Iglesia. Those with hardened stomachs will get plentiful belly laughs. #horror #horrorcomedy #alexdelaiglesia #halloween

Tonight's meal: coniglio e pollo cacciatore al forno, rabbit and chicken hunter style from the oven with the obligatory tip of the hat to the Sopranos' Cookbook: #thesopranos #italiancooking #chickencacciatore #Cooking

What better way to celebrate a blown bridge than with mushrooms in sour cream a la Odesse, French vinegar chicken, and brown rice? #ukraine #victoryinukraine #odessa

Another coup! The Track, my neo-noir novelette, will appear in A Question Of Loyalty, a crime antho by the UK group Writers Anonymous. I'll let everyone know when the book's out. #crimefiction #writersanonymous #jagombar #neonoir writersanonymous.co.uk/

When golf clubs and badminton rackets are of no avail. Also: look at that escargot!

Tales From The Magician's Skull #8 is a gasser from the Frazetta style cover to the illustrations and thrilling sword and sorcery yarns inside. A must for any fans of the genre! Order copies now! gamenerdz.com/tales-from-the… #swordandsorcery #talesfromthemagiciansskull #fantasy

Don't Worry, The Boss Knows All About It is a second runner-up for this year's Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Award sponsored by Line Of Advance magazine featuring fiction by military veterans. #warfiction #WWII #easternfront lineofadvance.org/.../dont-w…...

A damn big, green grub.

I watched Elvis and thoroughly enjoyed the film. Luhrmann is a talented, imaginative director. Butler dazzles as Elvis, but Hanks steals the show as the corpulent, limping, sinister gray eminence Col. Parker. It's well worth watching. #elvis #elvismovie #tomhanks #austinbutler

A Hunting Party has been accepted by Cowboy Jamboree Magazine. The story's loosely based on my grandfather, Matthew "Daddy Ben" Benzaquin, a San Antonio character and man about town for several decades. Ben's on the left. #gritlit #cowboyjamboree cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/