A writer draws from a deep wellspring of experiences and the id itself. Some major influences in my writing have been H.P. Lovecraft,Ray Bradbury,Chambers, and even Mr."It was a dark and stormy night" Sir Edward Bulwer Lyntton. More contemporary influences have been the horrormeister of cross-genre himself--Dean R. Koontz and his evil twin Leigh Nichols;the once-abducted Whitley Strieber;the father of the serial killer--Robert Bloch; the NightStalker-Richard Matheson;the Alabama kid--Robert R. McCammon. And to no lessor extent the man who we can thank for taking some of John Farris's plots nam more...
