I'm not really that into music. When I do listen, I listen to Bon Jovi, Tom Waits, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Alice Cooper, John Prine or just about anything from the 80's.
Movies
So many to list! I average about 250 movies a year and they include a bit of everything. I love film noir, horror and the Marx Brothers. Favorites include: Duck Soup, Escape From New York, The Maltese Falcon, Basket Case, True Romance, Bringing Up Baby, Bride of Frankenstein, King Kong, Wings of Desire, Hannah and Her Sisters, Out of the Past, An American Werewolf in London, Jaws, Creepshow, Freaks, Barton Fink, The Thin Man Series,
The Bob Hope/Bing Crosby Road Series.
Television
Nowadays I watch most of my TV shows on DVD. As for watching stuff the night it's on, I'm hooked on "Veronica Mars" and I try to catch "My Name is Earl" and "The Office." In the past there's been "Buffy," "Angel," "Cheers" and "The X Files." And through it all "The Simpsons," "The Twilight Zone" and Wrestling. I also watch a lot of stuff on Turner Classic Movies.
Books
Again, so many to list! I average about 50 books and 300 short stories a year. I mainly read mystery and horror. Favorite authors include: Dennis Lehane, Neil Gaiman, Daniel Woodrell, Carl Hiaasen, Dashiell Hammett, Joe R. Lansdale, Jim Thompson, Elmore Leonard, Charles Bukowski, Harlan Ellison, Walter Mosley, David Goodis, F. Paul Wilson, John Steinbeck, James Lee Burke, Stephen King, James M. Cain, Bentley Little, Lawrence Block and Donald Westlake (under any name).
About me: Let’s see… I was born August 8, 1968 in Baltimore, Maryland. At the age of 4 my family moved to Quincy, Illinois, located on the banks of the Mississippi River. This is where much of my fiction takes place (although, in my short stories, Quincy is called Currie Valley). Nothing much happened for a while. Then, in high school, I became an actor. Being on the stage made everything else tolerable. Plays. Musicals. Concert, Show and Swing Choirs. My friends and I formed GeekShow, a comedy group that performed skits at our New Faces talent show. I realized that a lot of things would come and go in my life: friends, jobs, girlfriends, but theater would always be there. It would be constant. I graduated from High School in 1986. I moved from Quincy to Carbondale to attend Southern Illinois University. More acting. More plays. More comedy. While I hated high school, I loved college. My interest in theater evolved and I started directing plays. It was even better than acting! I graduated in 1990 with a BA in Theater. After college, I toured as a writer/performer with “Authorized Personnel: A Comedy and Improv Team.” We hit a lot of places between the Mississippi River and the eastern seaboard (Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and a couple other states that I’m sure I’m forgetting). While I wasn’t on the road, I had the worst job in the world working as a baby photographer. This was all in Bloomington, Indiana, where AP had its headquarters, and Bloomington, Indiana is where I started to take an interest in playwriting. Authorized Personnel split up in 1991, but I stayed in Bloomington to try my luck at other ventures. I wanted to direct at the Bloomington Playwrights Project and a logical way to get my foot in the door was to take one of their playwriting classes. It worked. I got to direct some stuff, but I also wrote a couple of plays and discovered that I liked the writing process. In 1992, the Playwrights Project did a one-act I wrote called “Dr. Goat: Goat Doctor”. It was the first play I ever had produced. While in Bloomington I did a lot of things. In addition to being a playwright, a director, a comedian and a baby photographer, I also did more acting, I worked at a pizza restaurant, I was a circus clown and I started my own theater company, Iguana Productions. In 1993 I figured I’d accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish in Bloomington. I’d always talked about living in Chicago, it seemed like a fine time to make the move. In the Windy City I continued writing plays. I produced and directed some stuff with Iguana Productions. I found work in more live theater Box Offices than I’d care to remember. I met people in the Chicago theater community and started to think that maybe theater wasn’t all that I hoped it would be. It wasn’t giving me the satisfaction it once had. I still believed it would always be there, but now I started to wonder if I wanted it to always be there. In 1998, I started to focus less on writing plays and more on writing fiction and one year later my story “The Redemption of Tyler Jack” was published in “Pirate Writings Magazine.” It was my first professional sale. I’ve had more stories published since then and I’ve had more plays produced (In fact, I’ve been far more successful as a playwright since losing interest in theater). I’ve even managed to get a book of short stories published, “The Undertow of Small Town Dreams” (it’s currently available from Twilight Tales Publications). Iguana Productions has evolved into Iguana Publications (we publish cheap, no frills chapbooks). I'm a member of the Horror Writers Association, Mystery Writers of America, The Short Mystery Fiction Society and Private Eye Writers of America. So that’s me.
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my 2nd horror novel SACRIFICE is now in stores everywhere, including Amazon.com! I hope you'll check out this debauched and demonic horror ride! Here are a couple reviews it's gotten so far:
“SACRIFICE is a full frontal assault on your senses. It is a dark, brutal, bloody and terribly frightening book. Everson went deep into some dark abyss to bring this book to the light of day.... I highly recommend SACRIFICE.” —Famous Monsters of Filmland
“John Everson manages in SACRIFICE to dispense buckets of blood, provide edgy perversity, and walk the tenuous tightrope of horror and sex without falling: It’s rather an amazing feat.” –Hell Notes
Issue 8 is now available for purchase at our website.
It includes stories by Sam Pink, Blake Butler, D. Harlan Wilson, Rhys Hughes, Ofelia Hunt, Cameron Pierce, Mike Young, Matthew Simmons, Darby Larson, Aaron Sitze, and Adam Breckenridge.
MARVELOUS!! Thanks for supporting the CLAW, good sir. Hope you'll be able to make it out for a little onstage bloodletting some day soon - who knows, maybe it'll be your own...
Just wanted to give you a heads up that my latest forensic crime thriller, Freezer Burn, is coming out June 3 ...that's tomorrow! It’s available for preorder on Amazon right now! I'll be doing a bunch of events in and around Philadelphia. For details, see my profile. Thanks for the friendship!
Anything exciting planned for this Sunday? It's "International Plant Appreciation Day". It's perfect timing because the following Wednesday is "International Moment of Laughter Day".
I've stepped a little outside my normal "horror writer" persona this week :-) To celebrate the season, I've created a Holiday Madness page, with links to a free Christmas short fantasy story ("Christmas, The Hard Way"), a rock 'n' roll holiday song I wrote and recorded a few years ago ("Show Me Christmas"), holiday wallpaper for your computer and more. You can hear the song and follow the link from my MySpace page, or just click the banner below. Darkest Holidays to you!
If you are around Chicago, I will be there in person opening weekend. Tickets are on sale now. They’ll make great gifts for the holidays. (Goldstar is offering ½ price tickets for opening night at: http://www.goldstar.com/events/show/138339.html Offer expires on Friday, Jan. 11, 2008 at 5:30 am CST or when all tickets are sold.) ____________________________________________
Edward Crosby Wells' FLOWERS OUT OF SEASON* Presented by People's Theater of Chicago Directed by Madrid St. Angelo At the: EP Theater 1820 S. Halsted, Chicago
Jan 11 - Feb 3, 2008 at 7:30 PM Price: $25 Box Office: 773-371-1868 http://www.peoplestheaterchicago.org
"I think I have just seen the future of American Theatre.” —Michael Bourne, Circle Repertory Company
“Spiritually barren lives given meaning by fundamentalist religion. Comfortable lifestyles devoid of passion. And the finality of the gun. All reflect what happened to American values . . . and they form the subject of Edward Crosby Wells’ challenging new play, Flowers out of Season . . . one of the best things this innovative theater has done.” —Jeff Bradley, Denver Post
*This play contains violence, sexual themes and language. There are also gunshot sound effects.
Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my 2nd horror novel 
