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My childhood was rich with comic books, the STAR WARS universe and the occasional permission to stay up late to catch Dr. Shock host an old “creature feature” on “Shock Theater.” As I grew older, I traded the comic books for Fangoria magazine and leaned more toward gory monster movies and the slasher movies that were so popular back in the early ‘80s.
As a young, horror-hungry teen I read the scariest book I ever picked up, and I have never been the same since.
The novel was Robert Bloch’s PSYCHO II. It was the first novel I ever read that literally kept me up all night, turning the pages frantically to see what was going to happen next. (And what a twist ending!) Bloch’s economical prose stuck with me for a long time afterwards, eventually driving me towards trying my own hand at writing fiction.
Growing up during the early ‘80s video boom, I spent countless hours consuming every giant monster amuck, slash-a-rama, zombie a go-go, grind house exploitation gem and drive-in blood bath I could rent.
When not affixed to the boob-tube, my nose could be found buried in the writings of Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Gary Brandner, James Herbert, Shaun Hutson, Jack Ketchum, Stephen King, Harry Adam Knight, Dean Koontz, Joe R. Lansdale, Richard Laymon, Richard Matheson, John Russo, Guy N. Smith and Thomas Tessier, among many others. (I confess that I have a weakness for those grotesque, totally outrageous and insane animal/insect amuck books that were so abundant from the mid ‘70s to the mid ‘80s, especially those really nasty ones imported from Britain.)
Later, I scored a job at an actual “Mom & Pop” video emporium (remember those?- back before Blockbuster, back when Beta was all the rage!) and I added to my regular video consumption the delights of all the blacksploitation, gang, biker, women in prison, kung fu, revenge, cheerleader and foreign bloodfests I had only ever read about but had never seen.
In the mid ‘90s, a chance conversation with legendary actress Brinke Stevens led to my first published magazine article. Soon after, I sold my first short story. I haven’t stopped since.
Over the years I have worked for various print and electronic publications. Since 1998 I have been a regular writer for The Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope Magazine. (I pride myself on watching movies that would cause stomach distress in most other reviewers.) I’ve also been a staff writer for Blood Moon Rising since 2002.
2005 saw the publication of my first short story collection, A Place of Dreams and Nightmares (Dream Passage Publication Group).
I currently live in Alabama with my incredibly patient and understanding wife Frances. Not only is she my constant source of inspiration and support, without her hard work this site would never have been a reality.