The Official Weblog of Writer and Editor Tom English
Bound for Evil
Bound for Evil is a mammoth anthology edited by Tom English, and featuring Ramsey Campbell, Fred Chappell, Rhys Hughes, Jeffrey Thomas, H.P. Lovecraft and dozens of others!
is an environmental chemist for a U.S. defense contractor. As therapy he runs Dead Letter Press and writes strange tales of the supernatural. His recent fiction appears in issues of All Hallows (The Journal of the Ghost Story Society); Bound for Evil, (the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated anthology he edited, featuring stories about strange, often deadly books); and Dead Souls (an anthology of horror tales edited by Mark Deniz for Morrigan Books). Recently his story “Lightning Rod” was selected to appear in Horror: The Best of the Year, 2008 (Wildside Press, 2009). Tom resides with his wife, Wilma, and their Sheltie, Misty, deep in the woods of New Kent, Virginia. Visit him at DeadLetterPress.com.
Here's the second part of my radio interview on Metal Crypt, in which I discuss writing part-time, the origins of the Literary Vampire series, and the chapbook Phantasmapedia by my friend Mark McLaughlin.
Writer's Quote: "A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men." ---Proverbs 18:16
Here's part one of my interview, conducted by the ghouls of Metal Crypt, a show heard weekly on HardRockRadioLive.com. Among other things, I discuss the conception of Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad.
Writer's Quote:
"What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it."