When I was a boy I didn't have a radio. Walking in the Georgia woods I thought it would be nice if I could will music into being. Create my own soundtrack to fit my mood. I grew up. The idea matured. I thought wouldn't it be nice to create movies or virtual reality experiences simply by imagining them into some new technology so they could be streamed or viewed like DVDs. Or better yet, performed before live audiences so that the spectators could experience the "dreamie" vicariously from the perspective of the viewpoint character of his or her choice.
Ah, but what if the dreamies get out of hand? What if they spill over into reality and the Dreamer's imagination is on the dark side and he is, perhaps, not quite sane?
And so the seed matured. The result was Stage Fright, originally published by Onyx in 1988, reissued by Valancourt Books in 2020 as Paperback from Hell #11.
By the way, for those of you asking if the Death Dream mentioned on the fly leaf is a separate novel. Nope. NAL changed the title. Death Dream became Stage Fright.
My 1890s novella, FLOATERS: A VICTORIAN ZOMBIE ADVENTURE, September 2021, is published by Bram Stoker Award-winning Crystal Lake Publishing.
1890s London. A murderous plague rising from the Thames fetid waters. Riots. The city in flames. The authorities have their hands full. It's up to the hooligan gangs to unite and save the day. If they can stop fighting each other long enough to get the job done.
My dark fantasy trilogy--Night's Plutonian Shore, The Clocks of Midnight, and The Mirror of Eternity--will be available in 2023. Trilogy tag line: In a universe where the world and all we know is just the lowest plane of existence and far greater horrors on the supernal planes and in the angles of time wait to feast on the unwary traveler, it's up to a reluctant wizard and a fledgling sibyl to keep the cosmic wolves at bay.
Me? Married, great kids. Taught English literature and writing in college and high school, including courses in creative writing and Science Fiction and Fantasy. Retired to full-time writing and riding my bikes whenever I can.
To order your copy of STAGE FRIGHT, go to Valancourt Books
https://tinyurl.com/yywybw3x
or Amazon
https://tinyurl.com/yxmzn9y7
FLOATERS is now available from Crystal Lake or Amazon.
Ah, but what if the dreamies get out of hand? What if they spill over into reality and the Dreamer's imagination is on the dark side and he is, perhaps, not quite sane?
And so the seed matured. The result was Stage Fright, originally published by Onyx in 1988, reissued by Valancourt Books in 2020 as Paperback from Hell #11.
By the way, for those of you asking if the Death Dream mentioned on the fly leaf is a separate novel. Nope. NAL changed the title. Death Dream became Stage Fright.
My 1890s novella, FLOATERS: A VICTORIAN ZOMBIE ADVENTURE, September 2021, is published by Bram Stoker Award-winning Crystal Lake Publishing.
1890s London. A murderous plague rising from the Thames fetid waters. Riots. The city in flames. The authorities have their hands full. It's up to the hooligan gangs to unite and save the day. If they can stop fighting each other long enough to get the job done.
My dark fantasy trilogy--Night's Plutonian Shore, The Clocks of Midnight, and The Mirror of Eternity--will be available in 2023. Trilogy tag line: In a universe where the world and all we know is just the lowest plane of existence and far greater horrors on the supernal planes and in the angles of time wait to feast on the unwary traveler, it's up to a reluctant wizard and a fledgling sibyl to keep the cosmic wolves at bay.
Me? Married, great kids. Taught English literature and writing in college and high school, including courses in creative writing and Science Fiction and Fantasy. Retired to full-time writing and riding my bikes whenever I can.
To order your copy of STAGE FRIGHT, go to Valancourt Books
https://tinyurl.com/yywybw3x
or Amazon
https://tinyurl.com/yxmzn9y7
FLOATERS is now available from Crystal Lake or Amazon.
