I Began writing as a teenager and although I tried to escape the desire for many years I ultimately was unable to. My influences have been all great literature, both American and others with many primary influences such as:

Edgar Allen Poe, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Daniel Defoe, Hemingway, HP Lovecraft, Ann Rice, Steven King, Dean R Koontz,,Mark Twain, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelly,Jack London, HG Wells, Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson, and a host of others.