Shane K.P. O'Neill's Blog

RIP SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE (1922-2015)

Nothing makes me sadder than the loss of a creative genius, when a great talent shall add nothing further to a great body of work. Last week on June 7th, we lost one of the great icons of cinema, Sir Christopher Lee.

As Dracula, he fascinated and terrified me at the same time. He brought a presence to the big screen that I have rarely seen emulated. Though those great movies are dated in comparison to that which is produced in the modern era, he brought an anger and intensity to his depicti...

RONNIE JAMES DIO (1942-2010)

This weekend saw the 5th anniversary of the death of one my lifelong heroes, Ronnie James Dio. Ronnie is considered by many as being the best vocalist of his generation in the heavy rock/heavy metal genre. I advocated for 30 years that he was the best out there, but he is universally recognised as such now that he has passed.

He is famous for forming Rainbow with former Deep Purple guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore, in 1975. Four years later, and after some memorable albums, he joined Black Sabbat...

THE NEW EDITION OF BOUND BY BLOOD – OUT TODAY

The new edition of Bound By Blood is finally on release today.

Bound By Blood was the first of The Dracula Chronicles to be released in December 2012, even though it is Book #6 in the series. It is the first book in the second five-book arc, Bound By Blood, and the book that introduces Dracula the vampire.

I was never fully satisfied with the original and felt I had rushed its release somewhat. So, after another re-write, I sent it away for fresh edits and by the time I had completed the 10th d...

THE ALL NEW BOUND BY BLOOD. COMING SOON

Now that the Vlad Dracula arc is up and running with Books #1 and #2 For Whom The Bell Tolls and The Path To Decay, I have turned my focus back to the Bound By Blood arc, the part of the story where I introduced Dracula the vampire in Book #6. For the last six months, Bound By Blood has undergone re-writes and has been sent to the USA for fresh edits, and now a final re-write. Bound By Blood will released anew on July 18th and what was previously Bound By Blood – Volume 2, will appear in Octo...

SHANE KP O’NEILL on AUTHORS ON THE AIR GLOBAL RADIO NETWORK 23/05/2014

Hi everyone

This Friday, May 23rd at 15:00EST, I will be Pam Stack’s guest on the Authors On The Air Global Radio Network where we will be discussing The Dracula Chronicles among other things. You are welcome to join by clicking on the link below to the event. If you are unable to tune in for the live event, a recording will be available on the same link.

https://www.facebook.com/events/312146662265923/312177315596191

CHRISTOPH FISCHER – TIME TO LET GO

Today I welcome my good friend, Christoph Fischer, to my blog. Christoph has just released his new book, Time To Let Go, a family drama set in rural England.

Blurb:

Time to Let Go is a contemporary family drama set in Britain.

Following a traumatic incident at work Stewardess Hanna Korhonen decides to take time off work and leaves her home in London to spend quality time with her elderly parents in rural England. There she finds that neither can she run away from her problems, nor does her fam...

MY REVIEW OF THE EPITAPH OF JONAS BARLOFF by CALVIN DEAN.

Blurb

Popular high school senior, Daniel Townsend, is dead – victim of a suspicious car crash. As classmates Marc and Angela investigate, a chance discovery pinpoints Daniel at a crumbling antebellum mansion – the old Jonas Barloff estate

The house looks uninhabitable. Haunted. Evil.

While inspecting the Barloff family cemetery, Marc notices a towering grave marker with a perplexing inscription. What does the epitaph mean, and who is the old man claiming to be Jonas Barloff? To solve the myste...

SHANE KP O’NEILL – THE DRACULA CHRONICLES

EXPERIENCE THE ULTIMATE BATTLE OF GOOD VERSUS EVIL.THE BATTLE FOR SOULS HAS BEGUN.

The Dracula Chronicles is a new and exciting series adding a fresh dimension to the Dracula legend, which combines the real historical Vlad Dracula with a new and different version of Dracula the vampire. The series has been released in two arcs, one that follows Dracula the man and the other following Dracula the vampire. It is written in a style that is both literary and cinematic, that places you there in the...

THE 5 GREATEST HORROR MOVIES EVER

Hi everyone.

This week, I’m going to list what I think are the 5 greatest horror movies of all time, or the 5 that had the greatest effect on me of the many hundreds that I have watched.

5 – The Evil Dead

It’s sad to admit this, but I was already a teenager, though barely, when this movie came out. Although a comedy at times, this remains a classic horror story set on the frequently-used premise used in the 1980’s of teenagers getting cut up or murdered in the woods. The difference here is that...

THE RE-CREATION OF A LEGEND

There are few names in popular culture today as famous as that of Dracula. I would go as far as to say that in the western world, the name conjures up an image of one description or another for anyone who hears it, anyone above the age of twelve at least. For me personally, as a youngster anyway and even now to an extent, I see the face of Christopher Lee, who will always enjoy immortality as the on-screen icon. Of course, the name Dracula is not limited only to western culture.

For his iconic...