12/16/2017
Nickolaus Pacione -- on this photo of Deborah (debbied.com) I can't believe she went through with this one as it came from the combined research and input between me and Kara Cooney - Egyptologist as I showed her Tabloid Purposes IV to check the science in the story. I found her costume on Amazon in the 2010s as she went to another website for another layer; this photo she had both layers. I was surprised she pulled this off as some of her films she's known to play a damsel in distress (she's not shy of doing what they call on her own facebook profile.) As she's known to see how much crap she can get past the radar -- one of the photos she took became the spine of the reissue of the second namesake. The look on her face was quite real when done up like Cleopatra or the female character in Young Sherlock Holmes.
Tracy Crockett in 2004 did an interview with her as I was interviewed by Heidi Honeycutt as I was introduced with Insect on Mockfear (though speaking out against Brian Keene and Poppy Z. Brite the masses who kissed their ass wanted to see me blacklisted. Nicholas Grabowsky along with Ted and Tourniquet's fanbase had a hand in discovering me for the third time, the industry didn't realize I was discovered three times in the 2000s as Wraith knew of me from being linked on Fright Library Ontario before writing what became one of my few creative nonfiction outings. I was noticed for this in 1997 when I wrote about my factory accident that mutilated my left index finger when I was 19. The seeds for writing The Cabbie Homicide stemmed before heading up for Ontario in December of 2000 as I got discovered by The House of Andromeda. At the time I was discovered by Industrial Strength Radio David St. John who I became a collaborator on the website as the e-zine editor. I was thrown off goplay over a reader submission who I stayed with in Sudbury.)
I pointed out to Deborah that a middle school classmate who was a theater actor relocated to Philly as I was published over in a Philly based magazine with The Pattern of Diagnosis as I introduced the story in my own magazine earlier in 2007. Lindsay suggested I did a different angle so a stage actor would been able to pull off my material (the closest thing to this was Damnation Observes in Darkened Horizons: Issue 3 as I have a few like this in my first collection. Glenbard East a year before I attended actually did Dracula as a play as this was adapted in 1924 -- I played up up the story like Bela Legosi as the narrator if he grew up in Des Plaines.) I suggested that Deborah did the shoot at Lindsay's theater as one of the ideas then she had one where she had the black cocoon which became the spine of the second namesake (a site in Racine, Wisconsin, is where she picked this up at.)
She forced herself into watching preachy televangelists while done up like this to illustrate the stigma these ministers put those who write horror are put through as some Friday the 13th alumni are known church-goers. The star from the third one said something that mirrored a lot what I said in 2003 when I spoke up for writers who don't use sexual content in horror for a very potent scare.
I wanted to illustrate the creative straightjacket the Christian literary community suggests as Coach's Midnight Diner and Tabloid Purposes were quite groundbreaking on this regard. I published eight Christians in the first one. Deborah weighing in on my output, "This is way too cerebral and intelligent for Troma Entertainment. It's quite sophisticated and has an educated quality" as she is an alumni of Troma. She found me in 2004 as I wrote Lake Fossil, The Statue, The Fandom Writer, The Ferryman's Wheelchair, Ghosts of War, In The Eyes Of A Skull, and House of Spiders. When I first wrote Wandering In Darkness I had used the word "F**k" then a version had revised "f**k" and "f**k" then the version on TheBookPatch all has the word "f**k" in the entire thing. I wrote the piece for my old high school's literary magazine as a special alumni contributor -- they told me they stopped running the magazine in the 2000s as I decided to design my second namesake around this piece. Like I designed the first namesake around Ghosts in the Tornado as it was published in England back when I was 30.
She noticed how the horror output had a 1990s approach to literature akin to David Foster Wallace. I started to do literary fiction with a genre backdrop as Passenger by an editor was coined "read more like a Goth nonfiction article" as it was coined a cross between "Almost Famous" and "Tales from the Dark Side." I was trying to figure out where to send Spectral Exile as this was just written in 2006. Lake Fossil's atmosphere draws from both Gargoyles and the 1990s Batman animated series as Joe Lansdale wrote some of the episodes. Lake Fossil is a literary fiction yarn with science fiction framework as I used a pseudoscience in the story (cryptozoology) to show the real science as a reader sent me an article about The Tully Monster. The way I developed this character was I wanted readers to be able to look for him in a yearbook as those who read this were saying he was completely believable.
The only alumni who was well versed in the Pulp era besides myself and some of my contributors on Tabloid Purposes 3 was Trent Zelazny who came for The Ethereal Gazette: Issue One and later Issue 3. Between him and the lead author on the first namesake I rarely published material that was darkly humorous until I wrote The Room Mate in 2008. (Which was a sci-fi tinged darkly funny piece where I took aim at my ex-room mate and myself on that one.)
I was getting discovered in horror circles as I published a contributor to Dreadcentral when we were on the Fangoria message boards (Janrae Frank got me kicked off because of The Fandom Writer.)
Nicholas Grabowsky (Author Fan Page) in 2004 saw me test House of Spiders out on a horror newsgroup we were both a part of and published Insect on Downwarden. During this era I was on the horrorfind message board and told off the moderators for doing unauthorized pirated reviews of Tabloid Purposes like Janice Frank did. Debbie joined the second namesake after reading Tabloid Purposes IV as she calls this "her green book addiction" which I found pretty funny because I never seen my projects equated to a drug.
I was on The House of Pain in 2004 up to their closing as I became the co-editor as the feud with Darren McKeeman came to a head when he was in charge of Gothic.net. That feud got him fired as he created a fake twitter account as n_pacione of me. Lake Fossil was also introduced in this era on FictionPress.com as a few were doing a double take with the main character as some called him "you made him too much of a hero even for a hero" though he was rooted in the Pulp era as he was influenced by A.C. Doyle's The Lost World's snarky protagonist; George Edward Challenger, as the character was a snark night to young earth creationists.
I was restraining myself from using the strong language as I wanted to portray him flipping off the young earth creationist teacher character as he was a standin for Henry M. Morris. Readers were noticing how much crap I was trying to get past the radar when I wrote this.
The main character being Scottish-American as the No True Scottsman joke was implied as the In-Jokes directed at Dr. Michael Crichton and Peter Benchley as well as other creature films in the early 1990s. A few will catch on the Stock Ness Monster trope as this story was that trope. The characters who show up at the end of the story are my third married couple in my output.
The underground horror community was aware of me as the co-moderator of Web of Horror and later Wheels of Terror as one of the staff writers who gave underground indie written horror a lot of press time. I was noticed in Cthulhu Mythos circles since the 1990s though when A Cemetery Dream emerged they really took notice -- The House of Pain e-zine editor had been following me for years as well. The Cabbie Homicide and Seasons of Black September when introduced waves about me were getting noticed as Cabbie could had gone viral in 2002 as I became the second generation maintainer of the Goth community on LiveJournal. Seasons of Black September was compared to The Raven but more epic as Among Shadows was compared to Clark Ashton Smith and Algernon Blackwood by Joseph Armstead.
I got noticed with this because it was the first I did where I didn't swear as The Cabbie Homicide I gave it a lot of Chicago attitude. The then maintainer noticed of all the members posting I actually had some written content as I introduced my diary-x journal. I was posting things from weird news circles at the time too as I followed a website from Will Rock two years before I appeared on the station.
Horror Actress Deborah willing to undergo some research for an Egyptologist -- she got this via Amazon.com. She had appeared in a few Troma flicks as she weighed in on my writing style and said, "This is way too intelligent for Troma." This was when she read Wandering In Darkness as it had a similar...
