Repo Man, The Monster Squad, Oldboy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Television
The Simpsons, Carnivale, Pinky and The Brain, and Batman: The Animated Series
Books
Something Wicked This way Comes by Ray Bradbury, Via Dolorosa by Ron Malfi, Riverside Blues by Erik Tomblin, The Drive-In by Joe Lansdale, Pocket Full of Loose Razorblades by John Edward Lawson, Right to Life by Jack Ketchum, Ever Nat by Edward Lee
Coming October 2008 from Raw Dog Screaming Press . . .
LaValley's collection of stories drags us under to face the lows of society—the helpless and the morally corrupt. Snippets of our own lives can be found between the moments of brutality, a reminder of our younger years when we were bullied apathetically, almost as an afterthought, by bosses, teachers, and others. Recalling silly, failed romances and hours wasted in style with friends who had nothing to lose or gain. And in those brief moments of recognition the lowlifes become underdogs who, though seriously misguided, never stop fighting.
Writer - The Bleeding; A Child's Guide to Death; Lowlife Underdogs, collection forthcoming from RDSP; the collaberations The Ultimate Slasher Movies and 10 Nails On A Screaming Chalkboard among many other short stories and non-fiction scattered in anthologies, magazines, ezines and graphic novel.
"Haunting and subtle, beautifully and creepily rendered, LaValley's tales raise the bar to what modern horror should be. Stylistically poetic and as honest as you can get, LaValley's debut collection is not to be missed!" --Ronald Damien Malfi, author, The Fall of Never
"Only the best of writers can make you feel sorry for a zombie, and Dustin LaValley is one of them. He writes with emotional guts and isn't afraid to spill them in the most artful and deranged ways imaginable. This chapbook is sure to be a collectable someday; for now, for those of us lucky enough to be ‘in the know,’ this is to be savored as a great introduction to a powerful new writer!" -- Michael Arnzen, author of Play Dead and Rigormarole
"Everywhere in LaValley's writing there is the starkness of honesty, and a depth of comprehension that can only come from enduring true suffering. As with any accomplished artist he transforms real experience into unreal beliefs of humanity's triumphs and failures. What is unique here is the intensity of his vision-his is dark literature in which the reader is struck repeatedly from unexpected angles, completely defenseless and eventually beaten into submission." --John Edward Lawson, author of Pocket Full of Loose Razorblades
"A very cool range of creative vision and quite a mastery of the stream-on-consciousness style that's engaging, grim, and elucidating at the same time. In all, very powerful and unique work."--Edward Lee, author of City Infernal.
Editor - Assistant Editor for RDSP.
Screenwriter - Co-writer of Rise of the Ghosts, and the short slasher film, YN3: Pajama Party Massacre. Recently wrote the segment, Dinner Date for the anthology feature Terror Overload, currently being filmed by NFTS Productions.
Martial Artist - Sensei, Shito Ryu karate and student of Okinawan ju jutsu.
P.S. - As a small press writer I am obligated to self-promote if I want my work to be seen by more than fellow writers, therefore I will be posting a lot of bulletins. If you do not like them, don't open them, it's optional.
I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
Hey Dustin if you want to see something Donna got published in, she's the lead author on Tabloid Purposes 3. Awake Ghost Song. I was one of the authors featured on their roster (I think you can still get the larger books on lulu. com. ) It's my first collaboration too as an author, my first collaboration as a cover designer too.
