October 30, 2018 will mark the 80th anniversary of a momentous event. In the year 1938, terrifying creatures from the planet Mars fled their own dying world to invade earth. Their first cylinder crashed on a farm in Drover’s Mill, New Jersey. After shooting down Read More …
Category: book inspirations
Intrepid Force Inspirations: The Star Wars Generation
I grew up in a great era for science fiction fans. The first Star Wars film came out just as I was finishing up the sixth grade. Movies were slow to reach the small Louisiana town where my family lived, but we visited cousins in Read More …
Intrepid Force Inspirations: Southern Brew
I’m not the first writer or artist to be inspired by my region of the country. Anne Rice lived in New Orleans and set her vampire novels there. Charlaine Harris, whose Southern Vampire novels formed the basis for HBO’s True Blood series lived in Magnolia, Read More …
Intrepid Force Inspirations: My Super Friends
It’s pretty obvious that one of the key inspirations to Intrepid Force was the comic books I was reading at the time, and I lived in a great time for comics. Most of DC’s iconic characters (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.) were products of the Read More …
Intrepid Force Inspirations: Dr. Blood and the State Fair
My second year of college, about a month after I’d finished that second draft of Intrepid, my friends and I took a trip to Shreveport, to the Louisiana State Fair. I wrote about it in my journal, so I still have details I’d have otherwise Read More …
Intrepid Force: A Strange Brew
I’m finishing up my “Three Weeks of Halloween” theme this week with the first book of my Intrepid Force series. Intrepid Force isn’t really a horror novel, but the first third takes place in October in New Orleans, and it does have gas lamps, old Read More …
Chinchuba Connections: NASA is in Mississippi?
One of the sites that appears in Mike Casey’s Chinchuba novel is a NASA facility located in rural southern Mississippi. I’ve been there. If you drive about 45 minutes east of New Orleans on Interstate 10, you’ll cross a tall bridge over the Pearl River Read More …
Chinchuba Connections: Voodoo Priests and Dark Powers
This week, I’ve been writing about the inspirations behind Mike Casey’s horror novel, Chinchuba. I published it for him back in 2005. It has been sitting on its virtual shelf on Amazon for the past few years, and I thought it was time to revive Read More …
Chinchuba Connections: Ghostly White Alligators
What is it about big, white animals that makes them more beautiful and more terrifying than big, normally-colored animals? Herman Melvile pontificated at length about that very subject in the forty-second chapter of Moby Dick. Since Mr. Melville covered the psychology of big, white, scary Read More …
Haunted Summer Inspirations: Before We Move On to Haunted Autumn…
As part of my “Three Weeks of Halloween” theme, I’ve been writing about inspirations and experiences surrounding my novel, Haunted Summer. The inspirations have been many, of course. You might see elements of The Haunting, Agatha Christie, and even a wink at Scooby Doo. It Read More …