I was raised on an isolated, 80-acre horse farm in West Virginia that is nearly surrounded by the Bluestone river. The only point it is connected to 'dry land' is an old railroad tunnel I used to walk through. On a couple of occasions, I exited only moments before a train did. That farm was covered in cliffs, wooded trails, wildlife, old home sites and abandoned vehicles full of copperheads - in short, practically every kind of danger a kid can grow up around except a city street.
We didn't have cable, and my folks refused to pay for satellite, so I ran the countryside, rode horses, climbed trees and cliffs, waded in the river and shot guns till dark. Then I'd read. I read everything I could get my hands on, from classics to romances. When I discovered the old pulp authors, I left the other genres behind. Like many before me, I succumbed to the allure of science fiction, fantasy and horror. That lifetime of reading led me to eventually begin writing while in high school where I wrote a piece that won 1st place in the county for a creative writing contest, a macabre story called Forbidden Fruit.
I spent years playing guitar in and out of bands, and became for quite some time more of a voracious reader than a writer. After that last band collapsed, though, I went back to writing, eventually turning out a half million-word Barsoom trilogy as a tribute to Edgar Rice Burroughs, and a handful of short stories and novels. I decided to self-publish the short stories while my Mars novels were being considered for publication.
My favorite writers will always be those pulp authors I discovered as a young kid - you know, those guys who created Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian and Cthulhu. Something in my persona drives me to create, and so together with writing stories and playing guitar, I also dabble in poetry and painting. I plan to one day release a book of my poems which are largely dystopian fantasies in the form of short stories in verse. I find them immensely fun to write as I can quickly finish a ‘story’ in that format although those also pose their own unique challenges.
You may find me on my website, www.ChrisLAdamsBizarreTales.com. There, you’ll find pertinent links, information on available stories and where to download them, and other things you might find of interest. And please feel free to contact me. I enjoy a healthy discourse.
We didn't have cable, and my folks refused to pay for satellite, so I ran the countryside, rode horses, climbed trees and cliffs, waded in the river and shot guns till dark. Then I'd read. I read everything I could get my hands on, from classics to romances. When I discovered the old pulp authors, I left the other genres behind. Like many before me, I succumbed to the allure of science fiction, fantasy and horror. That lifetime of reading led me to eventually begin writing while in high school where I wrote a piece that won 1st place in the county for a creative writing contest, a macabre story called Forbidden Fruit.
I spent years playing guitar in and out of bands, and became for quite some time more of a voracious reader than a writer. After that last band collapsed, though, I went back to writing, eventually turning out a half million-word Barsoom trilogy as a tribute to Edgar Rice Burroughs, and a handful of short stories and novels. I decided to self-publish the short stories while my Mars novels were being considered for publication.
My favorite writers will always be those pulp authors I discovered as a young kid - you know, those guys who created Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian and Cthulhu. Something in my persona drives me to create, and so together with writing stories and playing guitar, I also dabble in poetry and painting. I plan to one day release a book of my poems which are largely dystopian fantasies in the form of short stories in verse. I find them immensely fun to write as I can quickly finish a ‘story’ in that format although those also pose their own unique challenges.
You may find me on my website, www.ChrisLAdamsBizarreTales.com. There, you’ll find pertinent links, information on available stories and where to download them, and other things you might find of interest. And please feel free to contact me. I enjoy a healthy discourse.
List of Works
The Valley of Despair (Despair Vol I)
The Cosmos of Despair (Despair Vol II)
On A Winter’s Eve
The Treasure of Akram el-Amin
The Blonde Goddess of Tikka-Tikka (Volume I in Tales of the Tomahawk)
Atlas of the Serpent Men (A Tale of Conan of Cimmeria)
Conan and Old Crem
Coming next:
The Banshee of the Atacama (Volume II in Tales of the Tomahawk)