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I grew up on Eerie and Creepy magazines and Hammer movies with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. I love the work of Richard Matheson, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Joe Lansdale, and Stephen King.

When I'm not fishing or playing with my two dogs Wilbur and Maya, I write horror. I started out with short stories in The Horror Show and Night Cry. Then Cemetery Dance, appearing in the magazine many times and in their best of with Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, along with a who's who of horror.

I have two ebooks out from Cemetery Dance Publications. Sinister Purposes and Less Than Human, which was short-listed for the Stoker and praised by Joe Lansdale as "One of the Great Vampire Novels." ...more

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	100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories by Al Sarrantonio (Editor), Charles Dickens, Steve Rasnic Tem (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 655 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume 1 by Richard Chizmar (Goodreads Author), Stephen King (Goodreads Author), Bentley Little 4.07 avg rating — 270 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Less Than Human 3.85 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Obsessions 3.83 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sinister Purposes by Gary Raisor (Goodreads Author), Keith Minnion (Illustrator), Kariann Childs (Illustrator) 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empty Places - Story & Graphic Novel 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Graven Images by Gary Raisor (Goodreads Author), Kariann Childs (Illustrator), Colleen Crary (Illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of Obsessions 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Less Then Human 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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