"KING KONG AIN'T GOT NOTHING ON ME MOTHER FUCKER"  --- Training Day

The Writings Collected: Volume Two -- my second collection of works ranging from short literary fiction with Gothic undercurrents to full on science fiction.   The longer works which were previously chapbooks are availalbe in this volume along with short fiction I wrote from late 2004 into 2006.

Norwood's Discovery  -- my first novella.  Terry Vinson and Rusty Nugent both compared this one to Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.  It was my first adventure story so to speak.  That side of my work my parents exposed me to when they had some of Indiana Jones movies in their collection.  I wanted something that my younger sister could read.

Halloween On Camera -- a fictional ghost story set in a real haunted place called White's Cemetery on Cuba Road in South Barrington, Illinois.  This was the first story to go over the 10K mark.  It is also featured in TABLOID PURPOSES II.   This one with the novella above is in the second collection.

House of Spiders 3 -- picking up right where House of Spiders leaves off and it is also a sequel to Bite of the Spider in Reality Check: An Anthology Of Horror.   It is co-written by both myself and Barbara Anna Marjanovic.  HARDCORE HORROR!  Yes I will say it -- this is as hardcore as Marjanovic or myself get. Barbara pulled no punches on her end with this one,  she knows what she's doing -- keep an eye on her with her next book which is available now.  I get a hell of a nod in The Balken Secret Conspiracy.  I will also make a cameo in The Pratcher's novel The Motel.

DARKENED HORIZONS:  ISSUE 3 -- featuring DAMNATION OBSERVES!   I close the anthology out and it has a one page ad for Tabloid Purposes IV.  The new story is a story akin to the more bizarro authors in there, but doesn't forget about the traditional horror crowd.   It breathes a pure insane old school Pacione horror story,  the faith vs. madness theme you'd see in FALSE HEALER and 144,000. 

TABLOID PURPOSES IV> -- you've seen this coming all summer of 2007,  it was whispered rumors of it when I finished Tabloid Purposes 3 and it was unleashed at Gothicfest 2007.   Featuring stories by  Casey Gordon,  S.G. Cardin, Terry Lloyd Vinson, Ken Goldman, Brian W. Keen,  and others.  This is as close as some get to seeing an AuthorsDen horror anthology but there will be an AuthorsDen anthology planned (the guidelines will be just as strict as Tabloid Purposes.)

I am influenced by H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, friend and author J.M. Barlog, friend and author Terry Lloyd Vinson (between him and Joni, I became a print published author for the very first time) and Algernon Blackood just as a horror writer.  I've been toying around with the idea of writing Science Fiction in recent years and you can read some of my Science Fiction entires on either FictionPress.com.   I am equally influenced by H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury,  Jules Verne, and Isaac Asimov.   But predonimately I write Gothic Horror and a little bit of a bad boy, as Fred Wiehe coined me -- a renegade.
     I was born in 1976 and raised around Richard Matheson's work being aired on the small screen.  Twilight Zone: The Movie I use to watch with my mother on cable when we first got cable in the house. My first exposures to horror were H.P. Lovecraft and Richard Matheson.  I didn't start reading Matheson's work until after I was published after an interviewer compared my catalog on the now defunct diary-x presence to Matheson and friend, author John Paul Allen. 
     My family thought Richard Matheson was just safe enough for me but when I read Stir of Echoes, that changed the way I wrote horror forever.   I still write Lovecraftian horror but now I mix a lot of Matheson elements into it.   I am drawn to what is called the Blue Collar Gothic.
     I write horror with a tenacity that is seen in some of the more extreme forms of heavy metal -- picture of someone who plays death metal couldn't find the personnel to form a band,. They have so many elaborate concepts and ideas in them so they crossover into writing Gothic Horror, but they take that death metal intensity with them.  

      I also will write science fiction from tie time time.  It all started with Lake Fossil and it snowballed from there -- House of Spiders and Bite of the Spider got my foot in the door.  I've been published since 1997 online but in print since 2004 -- my first story got picked up by EbooksOnDisk.com in an anthology called Reality Check: An Anthology Of Horror (Terry Vinson gave me the lead on this one.)  My styles as a science fiction are a little more akin to Jules Verne but when I do the cyberpunk style it is similar to if Jules Verne was writing Blade Runner.

     I've been writing horror, horror movie reviews, and creative non-fiction since 1990, but I've been doing science fictoin for less than a few years.  As recently as 2007 I became a heavy metal reviewer, the core reviews are in the home grown as Scott Davidson coins it. I love the term so how I describe my brand of horror. I'm rookie in the Science Fiction genre. I've been writing science fiction since 2004, half-joking with Nicholas S. Stember about which was easier to write. Out of that Lake Fossil is born -- that story actually sequels going for it. I allow fan fiction from Lake Fossil, but one condition, it's only alllowed in my magazine and my magazine only. 

    I've also been publishing my own magazine too via an imprint I started on Lulu.com since doing Tabloid Purposes. I've been published internationally on Insomnia Magazine *July/August 2006* and that story is going to be reprinted twice in two more magazines stateside (now published nationally in New Mexico, and yet to be published locally.) 

      Lately I've learned a new trick in combining Horror and Science Fiction in one story, then I've been doing creative nonfiction stories that are scarier than my fictional counterparts in horror. I showcased some of the most talented writers in the small press so far -- and featured a lot of new writers in the years that I've been online.

      I'm published the first issue of WitherSin Magazine with a true ghost story. I did live with two room mates who are both history buffs so living around a lot of antiques I am bound to get some inspiration from it.  I sold work to Tales of the Talisman,  HorrorMasters.com (if you're looking for LAKE FOSSIL 2, it's reprinted in my second issue of The Ethereal Gazette.. Dave called this one tempting)  Withersin Magazine and the famed Naked Snake Press.  
    I was slated in Haunted Times Magazine too, the May 2007 issue with Observations Of An Abandoned Seminary.  I write horror predomiantely and true life dark stuff too.  I don't fuck around with erotic scenes in horror,  I like my horror to kick the reader in the head as they're reading it with the dark ideological subject matter or subject matter dealing with mental illlness.

       I credit a lot of my writing style in the horror genre to heavy metal music, and Anthony Nichols of Meliah Rage actually wished me the best of luck with the Horror when they sent me the video for Undefeated and Barely Human (thanx man, good luck with Meliah Rage.)  I've been on AuthorsDen since 2002, and happy to call the Den my home -- and it became a welcomed extension to WRITINGS FROM THE GRAVE in many ways. I had my main website is teenager so to spea that lauched on May 16, 1997 on tripod. I actually have that site still over there, but it actually got too big for what tripod. Don't get me wrong, tripod been good to me over the years.   Horror with the same kind of intensity you'd see with the death metal movement -- what I want to do with my work is inspire the next wave of thrash or death metal bands.         

      What author do I compare House of Spiders 3 to -- oh shit,  Barbara Marjanovic cites Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King,  I cite H.P. Lovecraft and Richard Matheson -- picture the four of them coming together and collaborating, you got House of Spiders 3. CTHULHU MYTHOS meets DRACULA!   I am part of that club known as the "signed in blood" club because I did sign a few copies of the first collection using my blood.  
      Barbara Marjanovic and Terry Vinson can be both seen with their stories in the third sequel and the Tabloid Purposes anthologies. I honored to have Joseph Armstead for taking the time to do the introduction of the book because we've been following each other's respective careers ince  In a nutshell is the literary equal to a semi-truck slamming into an SUV at 200 mph. I was trying to do an interview with both of them because emerged around the same time.  When read the story Good Riddence by Barb, I knew that I wanted to collaborate with her -- gave her the first sale of a novella.  She tested out my docuhorror approach along with my respective fictional ghost stories (this is one of my staples as well as writing Lovecraftial Horror.  I am working on a sequel to my notorious short story.  And a novella that's even more notorious than The Fandom Writer.)   

      I might be the most bleeped author on here because I use vulgarity in my work especially when I write horror -- vulgarity and horror go hand in hand,  and yes I will say FUCK every now and then.   I like to keep it motherfucking BRUTAL, and find it fun to piss the reader off every now and then. When they get angry at a story -- I point them over to my facebook and tell them to look at the photograph for a long time see what the picture is telling them.  
      That picture I can't throw up on here because this is a family site -- horror is about how many people you can scare and how many you can give the finger in the process of writing the damn story. So fuck you Element of Style, fuck you to hell. The Element of Style doesn't teach people how to write a good horror story -- so I give Shrunk and White's the midddle finger.  Some of what I write some people respond like I just gave them the bird. You want to learn how to write horror, read DANSE MACABRE by Stephen King and read Lovecraft's work. That's something you pick up on your own -- and have a lot of heavy metal blasting for the death scenes, especially Doom Metal.   
      I am coined the HEAVY METAL AUTHOR by Mykil of Withering Soul.  I am also a freelance heavy metal vocalst, and what makes what I do unique in the horror genre is that I am a Christian and a notorious Conservative (I try to keep my politics out of horror but there is one story I have a pro-life delivery in a Gothic Horror yarn.)  

     I am recognized among the Cthulhu Mythos circels and recently the 2012 circles because of my notorious novella, The Storms Of Armageddon. The controversial scene in that one is that I detroy San Fransisco in a Tsunami.  That doesn't fly too well among certain circles, well fuck them if they get offended. Yeah I am not shy when it comes to writing controversial stuff,  I am faith based but I like to give Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Pahaniuk a run for their money.  I know who they are but I am not influenced by them.  I am capable of doing transgressive horror when needed.   
    I give certain trends the finger when I write horror, my facebook picture is from a night I hosted in 2008. That same night is where I got my coin -- I am influenced by the masters in the early 20th Century.   I am going to hit hard and hit fast when needed -- I take pride in being a bit of a caveman but if I was a pussy, it wouldn't work for me when it comes to writing the extremely dark shit.  I don't write with sexual content so I go double duty with other sensitive matter in my brand of Extreme Gothic Horror.
     Some of you might remember the time frame of 2002-2003, I embeded an Mp3 of Empyrean Sky's Vulture eys.  I will sometimes do this from time to time, because I want AuthorsDen.com to rock the place.  I've been here from quite some time -- I am usually haunting the horror genre on here (that's where all the fun is.  Matt may I goth up the horror section.)