Lorne Dixon lives and writes somewhere off an Exit of Route 78 in residential New Jersey.
I grew up on a diet yellow-spined paperbacks, black and white monster movies, and the thunder lizard backbeat of rock n' roll. Other children trembled in bed, fearful of the toothy shadows living under the beds, in their closets, and outside their windows. I spent his days searching for those monsters.
I began writing at a young age, mostly imitating what I recently read or watched. I shared very few of the stories with anyone, unsure whether writing was a normal activity or something worthy of schoolyard torment.
Besides a letter to Fangoria magazine, the first bit of writing I saw published was an untitled prose poem in the punk 'zine Lime Green Bulldozers. LGB was a one woman labor of love out of Texas. The prose poem was not very good.
Over the years, progressively better stories made their way into print. Small press magazines such as The Nocturnal Lyric, Dark Tome, The Widow Of The Orchid, and Creation's Edge all published my work. The stories grew darker and more surreal as I began to subscribe to the notion of progressive horror.
My story Voices Of The Infinite Sea appeared in Dark Notes From NJ, edited by Harrison Howe. The anthology contains 14 short stories inspired by the songs of musicians associated with New Jersey. Voices Of The Infinite Sea, which opens the book, was inspired by Pissing In A River by Patti Smith.
In October 2006, my short story Reins In The Night Season: Death Of A Pistolero" won the 13th Annual Garden State Horror Writers Graverson Award.
Upcoming released include a reprinting of Voices Of The Infinite Sea in Wordhouse: Songs And Stories and Reins In The Night Seasons in the eagerly anticipated +Horror Library+ Volume Two.
I am currently at work on my first novel, Disorder's Angry Lyric
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