Author: Bill Gauthier

• Harlan Ellison: 79 & Still Important

  From 2004 through 2010 I wrote a column called American Gauthic for the magazine Dark Discoveries, which seemed to have some regular readers. A few, anyway. In 2006, I wrote…

• Free for Your Shelf

  For today & tomorrow only, my novella is free for the Amazon Kindle!

• Quickly Speaking

  Just so you know… If you’ve been following my blog lately, you know I went through the Nightmare on Elm Street series of movies and I’ve since given the hint that…

• Boston: A Love Letter

    In 2007, I met my wife. She made herself known to me through a popular dating website on New Year’s Eve, 2006. I was cool, and waited a few…

• What He Said: A Tribute to Roger Ebert

  I came home Thursday from a particularly long day at work. After unloading the baby from her carseat, I changed, washed my hands, and sat on the floor with her.…

• Sniffle, Grumble, Kvetch

  I have a cold. I’d somehow managed to mostly avoid one this year but, alas, I was found. There were a couple of close calls, but they were averted by…

• My Thoughts On Fame, or Why They Don’t Deserve Your Rudeness

  A month or so ago, someone on Facebook bitched about Jodi Foster’s speech at the Golden Globes. You know the one, it went viral and lots of people said how…

• A Sundry Post

  So the response seemed pretty good to last week’s posting of my first essay in the Nightmare in Gautham series. I will begin revising the second essay tonight or tomorrow…

• An Unofficial Note to the Kids: Past, Present, & Future

  It sucks being a teenager. It really does. By teenager, I mean from about 12 until about 20 (though things don’t get much better in your early twenties). But yeah,…

• The Blizzard of 2013, Or How I Gave Up Heat & the Internet and Found Out Where My Priorities Lie

  Didja hear the one about the two massive winter storms that merged and battered the Northeastern United States over a 24-hour period? Yeah, I did, too. I lived it, man. I’m…