A Darkness Rising: Author Pacione Introduces himself to Current.com

I am Nickolaus Pacione, a horror writer who was featured at Gotihcfest 2007 and this is a short story write up for an anthology that I got featured in. Also in this anthology is a writer I found in an anthology I bought prior to Gothicfest to invite the publisher of the anthology with me as a signing mate for the event. I don't regret it one bit, and I am giving more information about the anthology here. I was featured in there as the closing story titled "Damnation Observes" and this is edited by Jordan Bobe of Indianna.

Horror for me as a writer is in the vein of Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, and Richard Matheson to name a few of the core influnces who've shaped my style of horror fiction. Damnation Observres for me is a bizarro horror story that is written entirely clean. No sexual content, graphic lanuage of swearing for that matter. I've been published on different small press magazines and also in the paying market a few times with respective short stories in horror, Science Fiction, and some true ghost stories here and there.

I was discovered by an author named Nicholas Grabowsky in 2004 and was published on EbooksOnDisk.com in their anthology Reality Check: An Anthology Of Horror. Been e-published since the age of 20 so that gives you some idea how long I've had a website. I was working on horror since the age of fourteen, did a wide range of horror styles but I will not touch erotic horror with a ten foot pole as a writer. I toyed with horror from an explicit violent style to a quiet horror approach on a few stories. Even Science Fiction for me will range from creature fiction to Cyberpunk Fiction (the cyberpunk style for me is something that comes almost quite easy because I've been raised around electronics and technology.)

I did Gothicfest 2005 as a signing author, the first author they got on board then I got on again for 2007's incarnation where I met two members of the Current TV video crew. I would like to see them do more with the writers instead of writing them off as vendors. Gothicfest is a unique festival in the sense it also brings writers together too. Jeff was originally going to make the festival something for bands, but I suggested to him that he also brings in the small press authors who normally won't get books carried in bookstores (reason being the technology the books are published with is known as a print on demand.)

I grew up in Glendale Heights and Roselle, Illinois. Horror for me was drawn from DuPage County's macabre history. I am very candid when sharing macabre details as Joe and Reme knew from Gothicfest 2007. I was very candid about Billy Porras' homicide, and the scars on the back of my head (from when I got stabbed) and the disfigured left index finger from a factory accident.

I published my work with lulu.com myself originally then my publishers started using lulu.com to get their work out there. Naked Snake Press started to embrace what Lulu.com had to offer and published longer books hence their imprint NSP Books. This is home of my third installment of the House of Spiders series, and this is co-written by Barb Shenouda. I will let her introduce herself later on here as some of my Tabloid Purposes line ups will eventually do the same when they start figuring out the video technology to really have fun with this.

I mentioned Tabloid Purposes IV briefly on here so you can go ahead and check that out. Especially if you fall more on the Harder side of Gothicism. Tabloid Purposes is what they call the print version Tales From The Hard Side. I grew up on heavy metal music and Biohazard is one of my influences for the darker horror approach I began to write and love doing.