An interview with Permuted Press author, Bryan Hall...

The second author featured on this blog for April is horror maestro, Bryan Hall.  Here's what he had to say.
Tell us a bit aboutyourself.Let's see if I cankeep it short and sweet.  I've lived inthe mountains of North Carolina for my entire life, write dark fiction andhorror, and keep honeybees in my free time. 
Could you tell uswhat work you currently have available?My debut novel"Containment Room 7" is available from Permuted Press in print,Ebook, and Audible Audiobook formats. Plus I gathered up a bunch of my best short stories that once appearedin magazines and anthologies and released them as a print and Ebook short storycollection titled "Whispers from the Dark"
Tell us about yourlatest release.Containment Room 7isn't your standard zombie book.  It's asci-fi horror novel set on a deep space research vessel.  The crew finds a strange object floatingaround a black hole and brings it on board. It starts to evolve into a monster while driving some of the crewmad.  They end up worshiping it, and fromthere all hell breaks loose.  It's gotsome Lovecraftian undercurrents, zombie action, and once it gets going it neverlets up.
For someoneunfamiliar with your work, how would you describe your writing?Scary, I think.  I'll gladly dump a bucket of gore in a sceneif it needs it, but I'm more concerned on real, lasting scares than shockvalue.  I want people to get that creepyfeeling that makes them look over their shoulder while they're reading.  Plus, I want them to think about a storyafter they've finished it, about its themes and its dark, dirty soul.  I try my best to accomplish that in mywriting.
What else do you havein the pipeline?Lots.  There's a novel about demonic possession in asmall town that's in the hands of a publisher right now – hopefully they'llpick it up.  I've got a southern gothicnovella series I'm in the midst of writing – the first one's done and thesecond one will be done within a few weeks. It's a ghost/mystery type thing that carries over one main character ashe uncovers mysteries in various towns while we learn more about his ownsecrets.  That's in the hands of apublisher as well.  And I'm working on anovel about schizophrenia, ghosts, and the breakdown of families.   
What writers have hadthe most influence on your own writing?Comic writers,actually.  Garth Ennis, Alan Moore, andNeil Gaiman are incredible and their stuff in comics is really worth a look ifyou've never read it.  Speaking strictlyabout novelists, I'd say Clive Barker, Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene, CormacMcCarthy, and Stephen King. 
What was the lastthing you read?I'm going to name offwhat I'm actually still reading since I started it far too long ago: Swan Songby Robert McCammon.  It's a beast of abook and as soon as I started it other priorities slowed my progress on it.  It's really good, but hopefully I'll finishit up soon because my Kindle is full of stuff I'm itching to get into.
Anything else you'dlike to tell us about?I'd like to saythanks to everyone who's bought, borrowed, or planning on picking up one of mybooks.  I hope you have fun with it.  And now that you mention it, I'd love to talkto you about Amway…
Check out Bryan's website at: www.bryanhallfiction.com
Buy his books here: http://www.amazon.com/Bryan-Hall/e/B004VRN73K/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1