Just a little something to whet your appetite…

It’s my job to take you to places of fear and of the fantastic as a writer. Have I done that yet? No.

After one short story and a novel, I have just started the engine but we can discover a little more about each other as the motor idles and ticks over before we really begin our journey together. While I write my next couple of books, (Paper Sky, Legacy of the dead; Liars, and one more untitled tale). I decided to begin a blog to keep my fingers busy. As we know idle hands is the devils playground. I want to sit down with you and discuss a little about those horrible little monsters, villains, and dark hero’s that haunt our reading lives.  From Clive Barker’s brooding Pinhead to Anne Rice’s flamboyant Lestat to name but two have stayed with us. There are many more, but these two have always stood out in my mind. We have celebrated them, adored them and even had ink punched into the skin to remember them by. Why, why have they stayed with us for decades? We cannot really answer that here in great length (not yet), but we see a lot of ourselves in them, perhaps we admire what we could be within those characters. Furthermore, why don’t we see memorable characters from the lesser-known writers? It is not because they are not talented because some have shovels of it. As a writer who is from a small publisher and who has read the works of my contemporaries, I feel as though I have found at least one explanation…one that many will perhaps disagree with but hey, this is just one man’s humble opinion. I personally believe we should break the bonds of the archetypes we have tied ourselves to, if only just the once…we love our zombies, vampires etc…but do we owe it to ourselves and to our readers to give something that is purely from our fertile minds? It could be argued on why we should, but then if no one ever took the time to create new monsters then the landscape of horror would be very dreary indeed.  I’ll give you an example. I wrote of vampires and zombies and loved them very much but I’ve had my dance with them and I want to waltz with something that is my own and I am having more fun than I ever did when I boogied with the other creatures. Will I be successful? Who knows? Nevertheless, I am damn well going to try.   

 

 

I am curious to see what lays beyond the murky woods of my mind. Perhaps terrors?

Maybe nothing at all but my labored breaths cursing the silence…there may even be something out there waiting… just waiting in the cover of darkness for the perfect moment where it can snatch out and grab me…hungry for my flesh. Won’t know till I walk beyond the pale. For now, I’ll leave you with something to mull over until the second part…

As readers, do you want to see more from your writers?

Writers, do you want to explore those unchartered territories of your imagination?

 As I said in the beginning, I’ve just started the engine and we are yet to embark on our journey. In the next blog I will expand upon what I have said here and explore in depth what and why certain characters stay with us long after the final page has been turned…until then I’ll wait for you in your nightmares…if you cannot wait until then, you can find me on; https://www.facebook.com/R.D.TEUN