JASON'S INTERVIEW:
It's great to have you here, Jason. How about you share with all the readers what made you decide to be a writer.
I would have to give partial credit to my mother for teaching me to read at an early age. She had me reading by the time I was two years old and instilled a love for books in me. I read everything I could get my hands on all through my childhood. Yet, I didn’t actually start writing until high school. An English teacher who has since become a good friend encouraged and motivated me to write. Once I sold my first short story to a small horror magazine that was all it took to convince me to keep it up. I’ve done so ever since.
What got you into writing horror?
I’ve always been interested in things that were slightly weird. I used to watch reruns of The Twilight Zone when I was a kid. I liked horror-themed comics. I used to frequent the horror section of the video store (back when they were still around). It’s just always been something that appealed to me. Like most, my first introduction to horror in book form was Stephen King. I discovered him in the ninth grade when I had surgery and was out of commission for a few days. The first book of his I read was The Tommyknockers. I tackled The Stand after that. Not long thereafter, I discovered Cemetery Dance magazine and a whole new group of authors that I’d never heard about like Richard Laymon, Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, etc. Then, I began to seek out their works as well. When I started writing, it seemed only natural that I wrote about things that interested me, and I suppose my influences followed.
What authors inspire you?
My favorite author of all-time is Ray Bradbury. His books are always ones I can pick up and re-read and feel inspired afterward. His prose at times reads like poetry, and although I doubt I’ll ever make it to that level, I still aspire to write as well as he did. From a simple storytelling perspective, I’m a fan of Richard Laymon. One of my favorite current writers is Simon R. Green. I'm a particular fan of his Nightside series because of the way he has created this entire world that is an amalgam of genres. Horror, fantasy, and science fiction all seem to co-exist there, and it's done in a seamless way.
So Jason, what inspired you to write, THE CAGE?
Like a lot of people, I used to casually check out the covers of all the magazines in the checkout lines of the supermarket. One that always caught my eye was The Weekly World News. I always got a kick out of seeing what Bigfoot was up to next or where El Chupacabra had been sighted or what new mischief The Jersey Devil had caused lately. I thought it might be neat to write a book featuring a host of cryptids that were all part of a traveling sideshow and what might happen if all of them got loose at the same time. The Cage was born as a result.
What inspired you to write, RUSTY NAILS?
Rusty Nails has been around for a long time. It's been contracted through a couple of different publishers, one of which even got to the cover art stage before going belly up. With that said, I've always had an interest in fallen angels. Movies like The Prophecy probably shaped my perceptions and provided influence. The general idea for the novel came from the concept of flawed angels and just how flawed they could be. I imagined a street drug called Rusty Nails that had the ability to erase guilt, and it seemed like the perfect source of conflict to start a second war between angels.
What inspired you to write, THE ORDER OF THE BULL?
I live in the South, and Southern horror is a niche that I'm particularly fond of. I'm a fan of books like James Newman's Midnight Rain or Ronald Kelly's Fear that showcase the dark underbelly of the place I call home. Obviously, there are a lot of trailer parks and cattle farmers in the South. A cult of cattle-worshipping Baal acolytes who setup camp in The October County Trailer court seemed like a logical progression, and The Order of the Bull was born.
What other works do you have on the backburner?
I'm currently working on the sequel to The Cage, and a novel based on my short story, Beware the Death Angel.
Thank you for being here, Jason, it has been a pleasure.
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Dade Gibson, supernatural investigator, becomes involved in one of the strangest cases of his career when he finds himself at the center of a second war between fallen angels. The angels feverishly search for a mystical street drug called Rusty Nails, whose side effect is the eradication of guilt. Many of the fallen angels are remorseful for the sins they have committed against God and become addicted to the drug because it lifts the weight of remorse. Principalities from all sides are scrambling to get their hands on the drug as it will give them control of legions of addicted angels, and thus, turn the tide in a battle which has spread from Heaven all the way to a small town on earth called Crowley's Point.
Following where the clues lead, Gibson's investigation takes him to a nightspot called The Zodiac Club where a fringe subculture pretends to be seraphim and real angels hide in plain sight. He realizes he's in above his head, however, when the search for the drug puts him on the hunt for the bones of a dead drug dealer and on the run from Samael, the Angel of Death. Further complicating matters, his deceased father suddenly shows up in his office with a mysterious commission to assassinate a strange twelve-year-old boy who has an affinity for healing injured angels.
With all of Heaven and Hell searching for answers, Dade's success in breaking the case is the only thing that will stop the second angelic civil war from spreading and tearing his hometown apart.
When desperation forces Brian Martin and his mother to move into his Uncle Jack's trailer at The October County Trailer Court, he thinks life is at its lowest point. He quickly realizes that things can get much, much worse after accidentally witnessing a ritual murder performed by a cult of cattle-worshiping locals. After some investigation, Brian realizes that he and his mother have inadvertently moved into the midst of a group calling themselves The Order of the Bull who seek to summon the ancient god Baal. When he attempts to document the cult's crimes and go to the authorities, Brian is thrown into a dangerous fight that will not only decide whether The Order of the Bull is successful in raising their god but also whether he and his mother will live through it all.
Freakshow... ...A caravan proclaiming itself Captain Omaha's Cryptozoological Fair and Freak Show pulls into the town of Crowley's Point, bearing cargo that is both deadly and highly intelligent. .....A broken family embarks on a day of fun to try and repair all of the damage that adultery has wrought, unaware that there are things loose in the world that can tear a family apart which have nothing to do with infidelity. ....A storm is brewing that will pit man against beast and beast against something much, much worse. ....In the span of a few hours the zoo known as The Preserve will become a breeding ground for atrocity and bloodshed. The family trapped inside will forget all about their own inner turmoils and focus on fending off the cryptozoological monsters that a raging storm has let loose. The zoo has become much more than a zoo. It has become a cage, and humans are now the ones being held captive by Mother Nature and her bloodthirsty children. ....Will any of them survive as The Chupacabra, The Jersey Devil, and The Beast of Exmoor run wild, seeking delicate human morsels to devour? ....Will any of them escape The Cage?
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