Skull Session with Dan Henk

Send us Fan Mail Well-researched author Mark discusses his new novel Pish Taco, all based on local myths. Lore that he has done his research on and about which he is well-informed! We also discuss the lore of ancient civilizations (can you tell I'm a big Graham Hancock fan) and especially how they relate to the Incas in Peru. If you want to support me and help give light to indie authors, go...

Send us Fan Mail Medical horror specialist (and ex-nurse)  Nikki talks about her upcoming new novel "The Broken Heart", available worldwide as of September 2023. I met her at Stkercon in Pittsburg last year, but she only reminded me when we sat down for the podcast! What a disaster that was! All the local hotels were sold out due to the Taylor Swift concert, and the one we found reeked o...

Send us Fan Mail Sci-fi, YA, and suspense writer Mike Pickard talks about his progress and new work.  As a kid, I never appreciated Young Adult books (although, to be fair, this was in the early stages of the genre, the late '70s). The books always had the vibe that they were talking down to me, an aspect I heartily resented. I used to read with a Merriam-Webster dictionary by my side, apprec...

Send us Fan Mail Very special guest Safa Shaqsy from Oman talks about what it's like to be a horror author in a Middle Eastern country dominated by Islam. We talk about what specifically you are allowed to cover, how you socialize and spread your work,  and what her future goals as a writer are. If you want to support me and help give light to indie authors, go to https://www.buzzsprout.com/2...

Send us Fan Mail Our 50th episode includes an interview with author Josh Schlossberg. We discuss cosmic horror, and he requests that I make an appearance on his podcast Josh's Worst Nightmare where we could further discuss physics, space, and interdimensional theory. (Yeah, I know I'm a nerd, my girlfriend tells me all the time). If you want to support me and help give light to indie aut...

Send us Fan Mail Henry Corrigan is a bisexual author, poet, and playwright. He shoots for the feeling that even he doesn't know what he’s going to do next. So far he has self-published a novella, Carnal Theory, and written one full-length dark fiction novel that he is currently shopping around. He also has the rough drafts of two science fiction books, one horror novella, one play, four child...

Send us Fan Mail Celebrated music maven, Erin Riley looked like she had it all: a 1960s Mad Men- style upbringing on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, then an escape to “find herself” in glamorous 1970s Hollywood, where she landed some of the most influential positions of the 1980s music industry. She hung out with rock stars like Keith Richards, Steven Tyler, James Taylor, and Jon Bon Jovi and chose t...

Send us Fan Mail In the 1990s, when metalcore ruled my world and Eulogy Records was putting out a string of groundbreaking bands, two top contenders were Bird of Ill Omen and Morning Again. Peter Bartsacos was in both.  In this session, I had the privilege of talking with about  those bands, what he is up to now, and how that music scene was operating in South Florida, If you want to support me an...

Send us Fan Mail Long-time friend and musician Rachel Rosen of the bands Indecision, Most Precious Blood, and Caninus, discusses early Metalcore and her retail company Caninus which sells licensed band logo dog collars.  https://www.caninuscollars.com I met her and the crew of Indecision at a diner down in Brooklyn and they emphasized that they wanted me to be the Raymond Pettibon for their band....

Send us Fan Mail Singer of the legendary "mathcore" band Coalesce, Sean Ingram. They were one of the first bands that really impressed me after Deadguy, and I finally got the chance to meet Sean at a Relapse Records showcase at the now dearly departed Coney Island High. Live, they were even more impressive than I imagined, and Sean was very amiable. I agreed to paint the cover for their...

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...