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 …
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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 …
Chinchuba: How I Became a Publisher
Last Monday, I introduced my “Three Weeks of Halloween” theme. As I noted then, many of the books I’ve published have a horror element though I’ve tried to avoid the excesses of the genre. This week, my posts will be related to a book called Read More …