Horror, Heavy Metal, Writing Science Fiction and Horror, Publishing weird fiction. Hard-nosed Chicago Italian-American and that reflects in the later works. If you want more about me check out my main website, Writings From The Grave . Obscure Horror Magazines and collecting horror movies. Basketball (I'm a Chicago Bulls fan from way back. I still remember seeing them play against the L.A. Clippers and win at the old Chicago Stadium. If I didn't break my finger in my Junior year I'd be playing the game. I still love this game.)
I'd like to meet:
I would like to meet Mick Mercer so we can talk tricks of the trade of running a magazine and the editors who published me over the years so I can buy them a beer. Thank all of you who are part of Tabloid Purposes: past, present, and future. (Hey Donna, I owe you a drink -- and thank you for taking House of Spiders 3 and making it part of the roster.) Also I want to meet other people with a conservative mindset, but a dark imagination that would help in disarming it.
I want to meet the publishers who made my career as a published author possible, and thank them for giving me the chance that no others will even try to give. I would like to meet up with some paranormal research societies in the midwest since I want to do more ghost hunts down the road. I need inspiration for the fiction so I do go out and hunt for ghosts.
Free Non-fiction Read:
Memoir Of Cuba Road
Since I am being published in Withersin Magazine and Haunted Times Magazine for nonfiction stories -- I thought I would post this freebie read for those who like true ghost stories. This one is just under 3000 words too so you can give this one a read. I wrote it inside of a day.
Read My Writing.. I also want to meet the line ups that made all the Tabloid Purposes possible -- keep them coming guys, you're a bunch of bad asses in the genres you all write in. Keep them coming. Thank you for making it what it is over the years.
Music:
Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, VOIVOD, Daath, Mastadon, Old Metallica, Megadeth, Meliah Rage, Grigori 3, Ministry, Iced Earth, Black Label Society, Godsmack, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Tourniquet, PANTERA, Morbid Angel, Alice In Chains, Savatage, Iommi, Howling Syn (Pat you more than due for a new album buddy)
Movies:
Black Sabbath, Open Water, White Noise, 13 Ghosts (the original William Castle Flick,) The Tingler, and other obscure horror films.
Television:
The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The History Channel, Doctor Who, Court TV
Books:
H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Terry Vinson, and a lot of indie published authors. I worked with a lot of them so you know who you are.
Authors been influenced by and are influenced by: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells.
Heroes:
Jack London, R. Lee Emery, Rod Serling, Anyone who served this country, Richard Matheson
