In the deep, dark past of many good horror writers you’ll find a semi-twisted childhood tainted by an unhealthy fascination with vampires, werewolves, mummies, and other assorted monsters. Sometimes the writer’s parents spent sleepless hours wondering what was “wrong” with their precocious offspring and why monster magazines and macabre B-movies constantly held his attention.
Such was the case with Weep Not for the Vampire author William A. Veselik. His parents may have lost sleep when he was young, but it was time well spent. His nearly four decades of exposure to “monsters” in film and l more...