Skull Session with Dan Henk

Send us Fan Mail John spent the first half of his adult years as an English/language arts teacher. The second half he spent in human capital management, the nuclear energy industry, and lately in corporate retail.  Years after leaving teaching, he was laid off during the Great Recession. As he waited for the economy to bounce back he dug up the old vampire story he had been working on.  If you wan...

Send us Fan Mail  Matt Fox of the metalcore band Shai Hulud and more than a few projects like Zombie Apocalypse talks with me about the band's impact on what was a new sub-genre of music in the early 2000s. Namely the introduction of clean melodies and complex guitar work to a medium that was mainly derided as aggressive and simplistic metal riffing in a bro-heavy outgrowth of hardcore punk....

Send us Fan Mail Mark Nelson has produced interior illustrations for Dungeons & Dragons books, Dragon Magazine, and games like Villians & Vigilantes, Earthdawn, Shadowrun, and Orpheus. He has illustrated cards for Magic: The Gathering and worked in the comics industry since the mid-1980s. For publishers Now Comics, First Comics, Eclipse Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Marvel Comics, DC Comics,...

Send us Fan Mail Ghostwriter Ruby Peru talks with me about her true crime-inspired novel with homicide Detective-Commander Herman Hinton from  Birmingham, Alabama, who commanded over 500 death investigations and initiated the Birmingham police department’s “Cold Case Unit.” During this time, he mentored retired Detective Christopher Anderson, the lead detective in the A & E crime series Reason...

Send us Fan Mail Verheiden's introduction to writing comics came in June 1987, when he penned The American. which was published by Dark Horse Comics in its second year of operation. Starting in March of the following year, he wrote what was to be the first of many Verheiden/Dark Horse comics based on the 20th Century Fox film series Aliens. Comics based on the similarly licensed property Pred...

Send us Fan Mail Andrea Faye Christians was born and raised in Swansea, South Wales. Following a successful career in British radio, she moved to the southern Mediterranean island of Malta to pursue her dream of becoming a freelance writer. Suspension is her debut novel. She is working on the second book in the Time Binder Series as well as a novel entitled Chemo Club. If you want to support me an...

Send us Fan Mail Stephanie Ellis from Wrexham, Wales in the UK talks about her dark, local myth, and lore-laden fiction. Dubbed "folk horror", it's an emerging genre that's broken out of the ever-more populous general Horror label. If you want to support me and help give light to indie authors, go to https://www.buzzsprout.com/2058263/support and give what you can! All my socia...

Send us Fan Mail Outside of his writing, David Benton is also a musician. Current projects include a collaborative novel with Bram Stoker Award-nominated author W.D. Gagliani and playing bass guitar with the heavy metal novelty act Beatallica. If you want to support me and help give light to indie authors, go to https://www.buzzsprout.com/2058263/support and give what you can! All my social media...

Send us Fan Mail Jimi Peranteau is a former tattoo artist, multi-musician, truck driver, and extreme horror author. His novella series Welcome to Satanville has two entrees, Leg of Jane and Bloodlines.  If you want to support me and help give light to indie authors, go to https://www.buzzsprout.com/2058263/support and give what you can! All my social media links- https://linktr.ee/DanHenk Support...

Send us Fan Mail Jack LaFountain’s short stories have won awards in international ghost story competitions. His latest books Hunter's Moon and Death Stalks the Red River continue the Ed Landry and Red River series. He is a Vietnam-era veteran, Ordained minister, registered nurse, and author of twelve novels, four short story collections, and a treatise on personal Christianity. We discuss his...

Send us Fan Mail Rich Davis talks about his properties being optioned, his horror inspirations, and his tragedies. He's the writer and creator of the underground horror sensation Cult of Dracula published by Source Point Press If you want to support me and help give light to indie authors, go to https://www.buzzsprout.com/2058263/support and give what you can! All my social media links- https...

Send us Fan Mail Dave first impressed me when I saw his painted cover for an issue of The Rocketeer at a local comic shop. . He is married to award-winning TV/video producer, writer, and publicist Denise (McDonald) Dorman of WriteBrain Media. Dorman began his professional career in 1979 and has done illustration for comic book companies Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, but his break came in 1983 when h...

Send us Fan Mail 2021 BIBA-winning author Dylan James Quarles talks about his latest novel, There Be Monsters, recipient of a Best Indie Book Award for Action & Adventure.  Dylan recently completed co-authoring a biography about the life and disappearance of Steven Kubacki; a man who went missing in 1978, only to wake up in a field 15 months later with no memory of the event. Dylan's writ...

Send us Fan Mail The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl is Lyga's first novel.  Publisher's Weekly reported that Jeremiah S. Chechik,  director of Benny & Joon, is negotiating for film rights. He authored Wolverine: Worst Day Ever for Marvel Comics, Flash: "Hocus Pocus", "The Tornado Twins", "Johnny Quick" and "The Legends of Forever&quo...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff Strand is a Bram Stoker award winner. His novels are usually classified as horror, but they're all over the place, almost always with a great big dose of humor. He's written five young adult novels that all fall into the "really goofy comedy" category. l Several of his books are in development as motion pictures, and he's mostly not allowed to blab an...

Send us Fan Mail Brett's short story, Ol' Betsy, was the winner of 2018's Seattle Crypticon.   "Brett McKay is a writer to watch." - F. Paul Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of The Keep and the Repairman Jack series. "This is a fast-paced, page-turner, entertaining read to while away a couple of hours." - Ron K. Read 4 Fun If you want to support me and h...

Send us Fan Mail Bob Eggleton is an American science fiction, fantasy and horror artist. Eggleton is a nine-time Hugo Award–winner for Best Pro Artist in science fiction and fantasy, first winning in 1994.  He has designed concepts for Star Trek, Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius, and The Ant Bully as well as creating art for publishers, magazines, books, and media projects. Spacewatch named Asteroid 13562...

Send us Fan Mail  Victor Varnado is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is an African American man with albinism. He was born legally blind due to his albinism. He landed his first role in the Big River Productions film Full Moon Rising. Soon after, his role in Giraffe Films' "Kids Adventures in Oz" spurred him to move to New York. His first big break came when he landed a r...

Send us Fan Mail Donato Giancola specializes in narrative realism with science-fiction and fantasy content, including images for Tolkien's Middle-earth. He has won Chelsy Awards, and many others, for his illustrations. Giancola has illustrated cards for the Majic: The Gathering collectible card game.  A "three-ounce" stamp set for the U.S. Postal Service featuring Ursala K. Le Guin,...

Send us Fan Mail Jeff Zornow is a world-renowned comic artist and Illustrator. He worked for franchises such as GODZILLA, JURASSIC PARK, HALLOWEEN, ALICE COOPER, MISFITS, and SCOOBY-DOO, to original projects and the graphic novels GORGON, RISING REBELS, ‘68, and many others. He resides somewhere in New York City, with a mysterious ninja cat. I first met Jeff when I attended Monster Mania in 2014....

Send us Fan Mail Patrick Lacey was born and raised in a haunted house. He currently spends his nights and weekends writing about things that make the general public uncomfortable. He lives in Massachusetts, in a hopefully non-haunted house, with his wife, daughter, and over-sized cat. Follow him on Twitter (@patlacey), find him on Facebook, or visit his website at https://patrickclacey.wordpress.c...

Send us Fan Mail Good friend and fellow tattoo artist Brian Murphy talks about his storied career. From an upbringing by a police officer dad, through artist success as a gallery oil painter, struggling through a crippling heroin addiction, and then getting clean and moving to Stroudsburg, PA.  The shop he established there, Third Dimension Tattoo, is now consistently rated as one of the best in t...

Send us Fan Mail William Cook lives and writes in New Zealand. His genre-spanning work includes novels, short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. His dark psychological horror and thriller fiction include the novel 'Blood Related' and the collections, 'Babylon Fading' and 'Dark Deaths.' Other popular titles include the 'Psychological Horror Stories series and '...

Send us Fan Mail Adam Millard is the author of twenty-nine novels, thirteen novellas, and more than two hundred short stories, which can be found in various collections, magazines, and anthologies. Probably best known for his post-apocalyptic and comedy-horror fiction, Adam also writes fantasy/horror for children and Bizarro fiction for several publishers. His work has been translated for the Germ...

Send us Fan Mail Now living in Mexico, Daniel Eaves is a horror author who released his debut collection of short stories, "Tales For Dark Hours", via   Splatterpunk Zine publications, in 2022.  I painted the cover, and so far the book has garnered some great reviews. If you want to support me and help give light to indie authors, go to https://www.buzzsprout.com/2058263/support and give...