writing dark fantasy, reading horror, dark fantasy and fantasy, mythology (especially Sumerian, Babylonian, Hindu, Polynesian, MesoAmerican, Native American), religion, gods, goddesses, demons, monsters, angels, faeries, griffins, shadows, the unknown, death, fears, magick, music, dancing at the ebm/industrial/goth clubs, folklore, legends, omens, superstitions, symbolism, Jung's theory of the collective unconscious, yoga, mountain hiking, kayaking, photography, baking/cooking, vegetarianism, beauty, the allure of the disturbing, art, museums, symphonies, thunderstorms, surrealism, magick realism, the paranormal, the occult, the irreal, black holes, alternate dimensions, neuroscience, wolves, science & nature, travel, the world, the heavens, the hells, anything esoteric and dark...
The Lord of the Rings trilogy, John Carpenter's The Thing, 28 Days Later, Ridicule, Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth, Like Water for Chocolate, Chokolat, Pirates of the Caribbean, Tristan and Isolde, Sleepy Hollow, On Being John Malkovich, The Believer, Memento, Suspiria, Quills, Mol Flanders, Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger, Queen Margot, The Hour of the Wolf, Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Devil's Backbone, The Five Senses, The Sixth Sense, Seven, Dracula, Hellraiser, The Pillow Book, Star Wars, Star Treks, Indiana Jones Adventures, The Bonds, Matrix, Moulin Rouge, Shrek, much more. I'm easily entertained.
The Stand by Stephen King, Swan Song by Robert McCammon, Weaveworld by Clive Barker, 1984 by George Orwell, Brave New World by Adulf Huxley, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denitsovich by Alexander Solzhenitsen, Tess D'Uberville by Thomas Hardy, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Passage to India by EM Forster, Metamorphoses by Ovid, Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Malory, Once and Future King by TH WHite, The Hobbit by JR Tolkein, The Frontiersmen by Alan Eckert, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, The Haunting by Shirley Jackson, The Wraeththu series by Storm Constantine, the Kushiel trilogy by Jacqueline Carey, The Nightmare Chronicles by Thomas Ligotti, Perdido Street Station by China Mieville, The Onion Girl by Charles de Lint, Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder, and too many other books to list. I'm a bookwyrm.
Currently Reading: Jacquiline Carey's BANEWRECKER
Heroes
Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, HP Lovecraft, Clive Barker, the goddess Kali...
About me: I'm a dark fantasy/horror writer. I've two novels published: THE VOID (Leisure Books, mass market paperback, OP) and SECRETS OF THE BONES (Wildside Press, hardcover and trade paper editions, order .. at www.amazon.com or www.shocklines.com). In addition, I've had more than two dozen short stories printed in various genre magazines and anthologies; such as, Horror Garage, Flesh & Blood Magazine, Surreal Magazine and forthcoming in Inhuman Magazine.
At the moment, I'm on a writing hiatus to pursue my master's in biogeography. I plan on saving the world in addition to entertaining it. :P
Other than that, I'm an enigmatic oxymoron.
Who I'd like to meet: Edgar Allen Poe--who'll do the seance?
I'll befriend weird people, fans/writers of horror/dark fantasy, freaks of the Industrial/EBM/Goth scene, the tattered, torn and tattoed, the scorned, the intelligent, the mystified and mysterious, clairvoyants and contortionists, artists of any kind but especially the dark kind...
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My short story collection, A History of Sarcasm, is out at the end of October. More details on my website – www.frankburton.co.uk.
“The writer William Burroughs once called language “a virus from outer space”, and there’s a sense of that in A History of Sarcasm, where Burton holds words up to the sun and lets the light shine through them.”
I made my first video slideshow and wanted to share it with you. The musician (Elizabeth Ann Middleton) is one I found through MySpace, and she generously let me use her music to set to my images. Visit her MySpace page here - http://www.myspace.com/pianorama - she's fantastic! :-)
it's been a busy couple of weeks here....hope things are going well for you. enjoy your evening and have a fabulous weekend !!! if you get a chance stop by my page and have a look at the new images Ive put up.
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