businesses would be a perfect outlet for my particular type of artwork and they could also benefit from it as well. I have to admit, though, the first couple of clients I worked for had nothing to do with the Haunt Industry at all. The company that first gave me the opportunity to develop a website and identity on a commercial level was an extremely corporate Luxury Concierge Service provider. They hired me based on my dark artwork. To this day, I still think it’s pretty weird. Who are your favourite authors and what are your favourite books? Favourite films? I honestly do not have a favourite author or book. I have always been a visual person and could never get into books. Whenever I would sit down to read a book my mind would wonder so much that I wouldn’t even be thinking of the same story that I was reading but trying to create a new story in my head. I have definitely been into films ever since I was very young. Of course Horror is my favourite genre but I also enjoy a good suspenseful drama. My favourite films (and those that had the most influence on me) are The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Last House on the Left, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects, Wolf Creek, and The Strangers. What are you working on now? It’s a secret. All I can tell you is that it’s a new series that deals with something very much alive and something very dead. Do you have any advice for other artists? Keep doing what you’re doing and don’t let critics or anyone else tell you that what you are doing is bad or wrong. Enjoy being an artist. What scares you? I wish more did scare me. I remember as a child being scared of things and I would love to be able to get that feeling back. I tell people who are close to me all of the time to try and scare me, jump out from behind a door, hide in the dark and scream at me, but nothing works. I guess I’ve become numb over the years because of my interests. If you are out there and you think you can scare me, I welcome it. You have my full permission, I would love it! KING’S JUSTICE: THE KNIGHTS BRETON COURT II By Maurice Broaddus www.angryrobotbooks.com
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An exciting urban fantasy set in Breton Court, Indianapolis, a modern inner-city neighbourhood of
gangs and violence. But these are not your average gangs and Breton Court is a ghetto beyond your imagination. This is Arthurian legend slammed into modern gang warfare, an exciting mix of myth and legend with reality. Broaddus manages to create a fantastic world within the reality of what we know, his characters shine through and the multiple plot lines merge to create a thrilling climax. The second book in the series delivers once again, accelerating the pace and advancing the depth of this strange and exciting world. I look forward to the third book eagerly. By Adrian Brady THE SAMARITAN By Fred Venturini www.blankslatepress.com Oh man, oh man! This is very much a book of two halves. The first half (well, the first sixty pages anyway), the absolutely brilliant half, is a coming of age tale. But not the normal coming of age tale; this is the tale of Dale Sampson, not the average everyman, but the original nobody. Literally. Dale Sampson has no friends, little personality, and is overwhelmed by life in general at high school. He doesn’t fit in - he’s a geek, a loser, a social outcast. That is until he meets rebel without a cause Mack Tucker, the school stud. This strange friendship starts to bring Sampson out of his shell, and he even meets a girl he falls in love with. An obsessive (and unrequited) teenage love, that’s going to get him into trouble, big trouble, with the baseball team’s second biggest star (after Mack). Until a single deadly after school party changes both of their lives and plans forever. So starts the second half (the rest of the 201 pages), as adulthood beckons. There is more obsession, violence, brutality, wit, shame and guilt, as our hero (once again abandoned) deals with his new struggles with the same inept, insecure failure. Dale can’t even kill himself. Wracked with guilt,