Author Michael Vance is interviewed by author and radio DJ Mark Justice on an internet radio show called The Pod of Horror, now in its fifth year. This free broadcast is available on the popular website Horror World on computers at: http://www.horrorworld.org/poh.htm.
The subject of the interview is a new novel by Vance, “Weird Horror Tales”, that is an homage to pulp magazines from the ‘20s, ‘30s, and ‘40s.
“My stories are founded on the premise that there is something larger than our narrow view of reality,” said Vance. “Each interconnected story shares setting, history, prominent families, and a macro plot. The stories also focus on the Azrealites, a religious cult that works tirelessly to reinstate that ‘Other’ on Earth through science and the occult.”
These stories about the fictionalized town of “Light's End” in Maine have been published in dozens of magazines in three countries, including “Dark Corridor”, and have also been recorded by renowned actor William (“Murder She Wrote”) Windom. Free photographs of Light’s End are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/miklvance/. Vance’s influences on these stories are writers H. P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, William Faulkner, Alfred Hitchock movies, and The Twilight Zone television series.
The cover artist, Keith Birdsong is famous for his extremely realistic covers for “Star Trek” novels, on Hamilton Collection collectors’ plates, and on U.S. Postage stamps. The interior illustrations are by artist Earl Geier, best known for his horror, fantasy and science fiction artwork. He has illustrated role playing games, books, magazines, and comic books.
Vance has written for national and international magazines, and as a syndicated columnist and cartoonist in over 500 newspapers. His history book, “Forbidden Adventures”, has been called a "benchmark in comics history”. He briefly ghosted an internationally syndicated comic strip, wrote his own strip and several comic books. He is listed in the Who's Who of American Comic Books and Comic Book Superstars.
The publisher of “Weird Horror Tales”, Cornerstone Book Publishers also publishes Masonic and esoteric books, selected pulp fiction, art literature, limited children's books, and poetry collections. For more information about Cornerstone, go to www.cornerstonepublishers.com.
Airship 27 packages anthologies and novels for Cornerstone in the pulp magazine tradition.
In the past, Airship 27 has released “Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective”, a series of “Captain Hazzard” pulp thrillers, and more pulp fiction in “The Green Lama”. For more information on Airship 27, go to www.airship27.com.
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