Category: Interviews

Eddie Generous of Unnerving Books has published the latest issue of Unnerving Magazine as a free PDF magazine. Issue 19 includes a brand new Q&A with Robert McCammon, in addition to fiction from other writers.

To read the interview, simply go to the Unnerving Books website and click on the cover of Issue 19.

Back on June 2, we posted about the September release of Writers Workshop of Horror 2, a new book edited by Michael Knost that includes a new interview with Robert McCammon, along with interviews and essays by many others.

Publisher Hydra Publications is now taking pre-orders and pre-sales the book.

Pre-order Writers Workshop of Horror 2

Hydra Publications will release Writers Workshop of Horror 2 on September 1. The anthology consists of almost three dozen essays and interviews by and with some of the biggest names in horror, including a new interview with Robert McCammon conducted by Brady Allen. From the Hydra Publications website:

Each piece focuses on an element of the craft from the perspective of professional writers of the macabre or dark fantasy. The book is edited by Bram Stoker Award-winner Michael Knost and will be published by Hydra Publications as a trade paperback and ebook. Cover art is by the amazing Greg Chapman.

Editor Michael Knost posted this on Facebook on June 2, 2021:

I spoke with the publisher today and we are going to see pre-orders for Writers Workshop of Horror 2 very shortly! I will keep you updated. Shipping date is set to start September 1st! We will have ebooks, paperback, and also signed (by me)/limited paperback (100 copies) that will be delivered a little earlier than anything else. Thanks to Hydra Publications, all contributors, and Greg Chapman for the amazing cover.

For a complete list of the writers and the interviewees, please visit the Hydra Publications website.

From 1989 to 1991, I published six issues of Lights Out! – The Robert R. McCammon Newsletter. Five of those issues have been available to download as PDF files from this site for years, but the last issue was a subscriber-only issue—copies weren’t sold by book dealers at the time, and it’s been difficult to find. Now, 29 years later, we’ve decided to make a PDF of that issue available as our holiday gift to you!

Issue six was published in October 1991 and is most notable because it contains a lengthy excerpt from The Address, a novel about a house in Hollywood that Robert McCammon abandoned in 1990. In a preface to the excerpt, he describes the book, what it would have been, and why he gave up on it. The issue also includes a lengthy interview with Robert McCammon that I conducted. That interview has long been found in the Interviews section of this site, but you might enjoy seeing it in context.

So download the file, kick back, and enjoy reading a Robert McCammon piece that most readers have never seen before!

Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!

–Hunter

The Crimson White is the student newspaper of the University of Alabama. Robert McCammon was the editor of The Crimson White in 1973–1974, and he is briefly interviewed in a recent article looking back at past editors of the paper.

You can read the article on The Crimson White website:

The Crimson White: Then and Now: CW editors through the years

Robert McCammon is the featured author in the October 2019 issue of Alabama Living magazine, which is the official statewide publication of the electric cooperatives in Alabama and the largest magazine of its type in the state, reaching some 400,000 electric cooperative consumers.

The article is titled “Alabama’s Own ‘Great American Read'” and can be read on their website. You can read the entire digital issue online at Issuu.com. The McCammon article is on page 24.