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 about
yourself.
Let's see if I can
keep it short and sweet. I've lived in
the mountains of North Carolina for my entire life, write dark fiction and
horror, and keep honeybees in my free time.
Could you tell us
what 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 appeared
in magazines and anthologies and released them as a print and Ebook short story
collection titled "Whispers from the Dark"
Tell us about your
latest release.
Containment Room 7
isn't your standard zombie book. It's a
sci-fi horror novel set on a deep space research vessel. The crew finds a strange object floating
around a black hole and brings it on board.
It starts to evolve into a monster while driving some of the crew
mad. They end up worshiping it, and from
there all hell breaks loose. It's got
some Lovecraftian undercurrents, zombie action, and once it gets going it never
lets up.
For someone
unfamiliar with your work, how would you describe your writing?
Scary, I think. I'll gladly dump a bucket of gore in a scene
if it needs it, but I'm more concerned on real, lasting scares than shock
value. I want people to get that creepy
feeling that makes them look over their shoulder while they're reading. Plus, I want them to think about a story
after they've finished it, about its themes and its dark, dirty soul. I try my best to accomplish that in my
writing.
What else do you have
in the pipeline?
Lots. There's a novel about demonic possession in a
small town that's in the hands of a publisher right now – hopefully they'll
pick it up. I've got a southern gothic
novella series I'm in the midst of writing – the first one's done and the
second one will be done within a few weeks.
It's a ghost/mystery type thing that carries over one main character as
he uncovers mysteries in various towns while we learn more about his own
secrets. That's in the hands of a
publisher as well. And I'm working on a
novel about schizophrenia, ghosts, and the breakdown of families.
What writers have had
the most influence on your own writing?
Comic writers,
actually. Garth Ennis, Alan Moore, and
Neil Gaiman are incredible and their stuff in comics is really worth a look if
you've never read it. Speaking strictly
about novelists, I'd say Clive Barker, Jack Ketchum, Brian Keene, Cormac
McCarthy, and Stephen King.
What was the last
thing you read?
I'm going to name off
what I'm actually still reading since I started it far too long ago: Swan Song
by Robert McCammon. It's a beast of a
book and as soon as I started it other priorities slowed my progress on it. It's really good, but hopefully I'll finish
it up soon because my Kindle is full of stuff I'm itching to get into.
Anything else you’d
like to tell us about?
I'd like to say
thanks to everyone who's bought, borrowed, or planning on picking up one of my
books. I hope you have fun with it. And now that you mention it, I'd love to talk
to 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
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