In The Beginning,,

Now turn back the clock to 16 May 1997, I created a site for my writings as a result of the rejection letters from a college publication at College of DuPage. After going on the circut, I joined up with a place called firefly, this being a place that gave me a forum for what they see here with the writings. A college friend of mine helped me come up with the name Writings From The Grave, since that day in 1996, that became my copyright -- also became the tag name of my writing style. I then started up a site on tripod for this new type of menacing horror, influenced by H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe. It was hosted on tripod from 1997 to 2000, then moved to go network..
I still run that website now but I wanted to do something to make the writings more accessable. For the longest time I kept two journals -- a day to day journal then a literary journal. I decided to bring back the journal concept on a few locations. Living at the time near one of the major Christian colleges made it hard for me to get the exposure or appeal I wanted with this type of writing because at the time I started the website I was a devote Christian.
They were giving me a few ugly looks saying a Christian (in their eyes heaven forbid if one finds H.P. Lovecraft) should not be writing such material, the whole darkness hath no fellowship with light-- or be listening to heavy metal. In 1982, my curiousity for the bizarre was born when I saw Ripley's Believe It .... Or Not and when I was ten, I saw H.P. Lovecraft's The Re-Aminator on Cinemax directed by Stuart Gordon. Horror films, heavy metal, and horror literature were the inspirations for my writings and illustrations. The poetry would be influenced by Milton. If one would want more information about my works, send me an email.