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His first novel, written under the pen name Philip Straker, came out a year later but was a hunk of junk called Night Bait. For the next 15 years, he worked as a night watchman at a retirement community and wrote by day. He quit the night watchman job in 1997, moved to Seattle -- mainly because he got sick of Maryland PCP-brain-corroded rednecks giving him the finger for driving the speed limit, and Seattle has dungeness crabs for cheap (shellfish is of the utmost importance to him) but, lo, he eventually got sick of Seattle's nine-months-a-year of rain. He is now living life in the sunshine of St. Pete Beach, Fla.

His distant creative endeavors include more hardcore horror novels, a political thriller, a military tech thriller, a "true-life" thriller, a pop-literi abstraction for which he just won a modest grant, several horror scripts and God knows what else. His favorite horror novel is Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber; favorite short story, "Loveman's Comeback" by Ramsey Campbell; most influential author, H.P.Lovecraft. His favorite baseball team is The Only Team That Matters: the Yankees. Favorite football team? The fuckin' Redskins, who can't even beat Dallas even with their $100,000,000 worth of recently purchased superstars. Additionally, he probably cooks seafood better than any writer in the history of the genre.
]]> male Bowie, Md 1957/05/25 216252 0843949880 9780843949889 28 <![CDATA[City Infernal]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782670m/216252.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782670s/216252.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216252.City_Infernal 3.70 172 WELCOME TO THE MEPHISTOPOLIS

Hell is a city.

It stretches, literally, without end-a labyrinth of smoke and waking nightmare. Just as endlessly, sewer grates belch flame from the sulphur fires that have raged beneath the streets for millennia. Clock towers spire in every district, by public law, but their faces have no hands; time is not measured here in seconds or hours but in atrocity and despair. In the center of this morass of stone and smoke and butchery and horror stands the 666-floor Mephisto Building, where Gargoyles prowl the wind-blown ledges and from whose highest garrets the innocent are hung from gibbets and left to rot for eons. The lone occupant of the very top floor looks down upon his dominion and smiles a smile that is brighter than a thousand suns. Here, yes, everyone is dead yet everyone lives forever.

Welcome to the Mephistopolis.

Welcome to the city of Hell.

Welcome.

]]> 58997 3.60 1458 182 2001 216254 0843954124 9780843954128 15 <![CDATA[Flesh Gothic]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782672m/216254.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782672s/216254.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216254.Flesh_Gothic 3.53 127 House of Passion

Hildreth House. On a moonlight night in early spring, twenty-seven people entered the mansion’s labyrinthine halls, to partake in an orgy of diabolical debauchery, the likes of which beggared description. And one by one, twenty-six of them were butchered in place. The twenty-seventh body was never recovered.

House of Sin

The screams have faded, and the blood has dried but the spectral house remains...waiting.

House of Hell

Welcome to the mansion made in Hell

Flesh Gothic

Where the temple of evil is your own body...

]]> 58997 3.60 1458 182 2004 216253 0843952032 9780843952032 9 <![CDATA[Infernal Angel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782672m/216253.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782672s/216253.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216253.Infernal_Angel 3.77 109 Hell has become a sprawling metropolis where evil translates into order and monsters mate with the damned. Here Golems stand watch in smoking alleys, while gargoyles prowl the ledges of mile-high skyscrapers made of pulverized bone. Horror is harnessed as energy, and atrocity, torture, and murder are public law. And now Satan has discovered a method to bring little bits of his demented city to earth.
Cassie is the only woman in the world who has the power to enter this unspeakable domain. Will she succeed in foiling the most diabolical plot of all time? Or will she fail and be damned forever in the never-ending streets of the city of Hell?]]> 58997 3.60 1458 182 2003 216247 0843950757 9780843950755 11 <![CDATA[Monstrosity]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782668m/216247.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782668s/216247.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216247.Monstrosity 3.41 96 Blue skies, palm trees, and flawless white sand beaches. Clare Prentiss thinks her new home is paradise, and her brand-new job as security chief at the clinic almost seems too good to be true.

It is.

Lurid dreams, erotic obsessions, and twisted sexual fantasies aren't the only things that abruptly invade Clare's life. Is someone really peeping into her windows at night?

Yes.

Are those screams she hears just her imagination?

No.

Is Clare being stalked?

Yes. But not by a man. By a monstrosity.

Will the last scream Clare hears be her own?

]]> 58997 3.60 1458 182 2002 1939794 0843958065 9780843958065 15 <![CDATA[House Infernal]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1939794.House_Infernal 3.71 77 58997 3.60 1458 182 2007 1191446 0843954132 9780843954135 8 <![CDATA[The Backwoods]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181768335m/1191446.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181768335s/1191446.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1191446.The_Backwoods 3.23 82 58997 3.60 1458 182 2005 216249 0843952040 9780843952049 3 <![CDATA[Messenger]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782669m/216249.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782669s/216249.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216249.Messenger 3.66 68 Would you like to become someone else? Well, someone else is about to become you. He will share your heart and your mind, he will seep into your body, he will feel all your ecstacy...

And then he will take you on a slaughterfest.

Occult rites. Ritualistic murder.

You have become possessed.
But not by a ghost.
Not by a demon.
It's something much worse.

Just as God has a messenger, so does the devil, and that messenger is here, now, in your town. He has a message to send...

The Messenger.

A diabolical novel of ultimate erotic horror...

]]> 58997 3.60 1458 182 2004 905659 1892950138 9781892950130 10 <![CDATA[The Bighead]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179341792m/905659.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179341792s/905659.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/905659.The_Bighead 3.58 53 THE BIGHEAD - He's coming, all right. He's coming for you... Rape. Murder. Brain-eating...

THE BIGHEAD - Who is he? What is he? An inbred homicidal pervert? A supernatural psychopath? Who or whatever he is, he's on a roll now, raging out of the Virginia backwoods, and leaving in his wake a trail of blood, guts, and disgust far beyond the limits of your reckoning.

JERRICA -Sex-addict, drug-addict -- a woman so far out of control she would make Linda Lovelace look like a schoolmarm. And little does she know, The Bighead is coming... for her.

THE ABBEY -Closed for years, Wroxeter Abbey is back in business, haunted by two nuns...from hell. Erotopathic, clinically demented, gross beyond belief. To the faithful priest, Father Alexander, they will do things that absolutely beggar description...

Never before has a work of fiction dared to delve so deeply into the realms of perversion, sexual dementia, and bad taste. THE BIGHEAD - He's coming, all right. He's coming for you!]]> 58997 3.60 1458 182 11727 3.58 53 10 2000 3391672 0843958073 9780843958072 10 <![CDATA[Brides of the Impaler]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3391672.Brides_of_the_Impaler 3.02 50
When Cristina and her husband moved into the brownstone, they thought it would be their dream house. But almost immediately something began to beckon to her. She can feel it calling her, luring her, filling her dreams with newfound passion, unbridled lust and promises of ecstasies she'd never thought possible. Soon there will be no turning back, for the time has come for the unholy ritual performed by the Brides of the Impaler.]]> 58997 3.60 1458 182 2008 6050363 0843958081 9780843958089 11 <![CDATA[The Golem]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6050363.The_Golem 3.32 34 58997 3.60 1458 182 2009