From a recent interview: Influences and favorite current authors.

What horror novel has had the biggest impact on you as a writer and who are some of your favorite current writers?

Biggest impact: ‘Salem’s Lot. It has everything I ever need in a story. A great love story with Ben and Susan, a creepy house on a hill, a small town brought to life only to be brought to its knees!!! Scary scenes like the one at the morgue, the Glick boy at Mark’s bedroom window, man. I’ve read it five times and look forward to the next time.

I try to make my stories that good. Or even and eighth of that…it’s the best.

For current writers out there…Ronald Malfi, Hunter Shea, Brian Moreland, Jonathan Janz. I loved Jonathan Maberry’s Pine Deep Trilogy. Patrick Lacey and Heather Herrman are two of my newer favorites. Somer Canon, The Sisters of Slaughter (Michelle Garza & Melissa Lason), Todd Keisling. I could go on and on. Horror fiction is full of great writers.