"Kevin Lucia's writing is both scary and smart, a lethal cocktail that makes for mesmerizing storytelling." -- Tosca Lee, New York Times Bestselling Author of Demon: A Memoir
"Lucia is a true craftsman of the horror story, with a fine sense of the genre's best traditions." --Norman Prentiss, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Invisible Fences and The Fleshless Man
From the Introduction:
The reasons behind this small collection are twofold: First,
several of my short stories didn’t fit into the framing narrative of my first
short fiction collection, Things Slip Through. I felt they were good enough for
an audience, so I decided to assemble them – along with a few poems – into a
small collection.
Secondly, over the years many folks have mentioned how much
they’ve enjoyed reading my blogs, especially those who have followed me from
the very beginning. Good friend and excellent author Richard Wright once told
me he liked reading my blogs because they’ve charted my development as a
writer, that through them you could see a progression in my thoughts about
writing and the horror genre. I decided to gather several of the essays I’ve written
for different webzines over the past two years along with some of my more
popular blogs to create a nonfiction section to Strange Days.
Rounding out this collection are two projects that
unfortunately fell by the wayside, my desire to create several standalone
graphic eBooks, and a graphic novel serial, Asphalt Oceans by Midnight. I offer
them as curiosities, and hopefully you’ll find them interesting.
These aren’t “trunk stories.” They’re stories I enjoyed
writing, stories I sold along with my other stories. I feel comfortable in
their quality, though several of them represent my earliest stages of writing.
And these essays don’t offer “writing advice” trying to tell everyone how to
write. They’re me trying to figure out how I want to write, trying to figure
out what horror fiction means to me, with a healthy dose of real-life stuff
thrown in.
As always, thanks to those who’ve supported my work, offered
me a guiding hand, or even cheered me on from the sidelines. Thanks also, as
always, to my wife Abby, for all your unfailing love, support and
patience.
Enjoy, and thanks again.
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