03 / WRITING
Novelizations, fiction, screenplays, books, and creative nonfiction.
BOOKS & PROSE
Written by Michael J. Epstein
The official novelization of the retro slasher End Zone 2, with an explosive new ending. Presented as a rediscovered genre artifact from the fictional world of the films.
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Michael J. Epstein
A practical guide to planning and running crowdfunding campaigns for artistic and entrepreneurial projects.
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Michael J. Epstein and Elana Reiser
An accessible introduction to statistics, logic, scientific reasoning, and the evidence behind claims.
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A practical guide to more effective communication with people experiencing hearing loss.
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Horror · Dark Comedy · Thriller · 106 pages
An adopted woman discovers an identical twin—and a dangerous vampire family she never knew existed.
Full screenplay listing ↗Horror · Thriller · Dark Comedy · 84 pages
A sheltered student learns that a hit pop song may be conditioning listeners into obedience.
Full screenplay listing ↗Mystery · Thriller · Dark Comedy · 85 pages
A true-crime writer is drawn into a murder mystery inside a serial killer's desert house.
Full screenplay listing ↗Horror · Mystery · Supernatural Thriller · 86 pages
A supposedly fraudulent haunting refuses to end after every practical trick has been exposed.
Full screenplay listing ↗Comedy · Crime · Mystery · 99 pages
Two contract workers stumble through a dangerous and absurd night of assignments in 1990s Los Angeles.
Full screenplay listing ↗Drama · Supernatural Mystery · Horror · 84 pages
A family's period of mourning becomes a contained mystery of memory and loss.
Full screenplay listing ↗Mystery · Thriller · Crime · Neo-Noir · 95 pages
An impound-yard death, phantom mileage, and surveillance footage lead into a tangled procedural mystery.
Full screenplay listing ↗Supernatural Horror-Comedy · Mystery · Thriller · 97 pages
A rock band hears a broadcast from tomorrow predicting that only three members will survive.
Full screenplay listing ↗Sci-Fi · Dystopian · Anthology · 100 pages
Interconnected lives collide in a surveillance state built on compulsory confession and punishment.
Full screenplay listing ↗Horror · Science Fiction · Drama · 30 pages
Twin survivors in alternate worlds use lucid dreaming to reach one another—with catastrophic consequences.
Full screenplay listing ↗Body Horror · Psychological Horror · Cosmic Horror · 9 pages
Brushing his teeth opens an impossible slit in the bathroom wall; refusing has consequences of its own.
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ARTICLES & RESEARCH
Practical production strategies and independent filmmaking commentary.
Read articles ↗ (opens in a new tab)Selected work on hearing, psychoacoustics, perception, and psychology.
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