Lucid Dreams and Saturn Skies

About: Andrew Kincaid

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For as long as I can remember, I’ve made up stories. I didn’t write them down when I was younger, but acted them out in my bedroom and backyard instead. Then, I discovered video games and books (not in that order,) and incorporated the stories I played and read into my imaginings. I would sit down and doodle elaborate bestiaries for my backyard games. I would draw maps of fantastic worlds and write short stories to go along with them. One in particular that I remember was called the Golden Knight, and boy was I proud of that one! Had sketches to go with it and everything. Those drawings have long since rotted away in some landfill, and I’ve grown up. But I still write stories. I draw my monsters with words these days, although every now and then I will put pen to paper and sketch a map if a story demands it. Golden Knights and other high fantasy heroes have given way to everyday Joes and Janes, who despite being average are still faced with monsters as horrible as those the knights faced, only they have no magic swords or mighty wizards to call on for help. Horror is the genre that chose me – I’m not convinced we writers, at the mercy of the Muse, get much choice in what we write – and the rollicking fantasy romps of my childhood years have gone by the wayside. I’m still convinced there is an epic fantasy trilogy somewhere in the depths of my subconscious, but then maybe that’s the Muse playing a trick on me. In any case, horror is what I do. I enjoy it. It’s fun to look for the supernatural in daily life, to stir up this mundane world of ours and imagine the dark vistas beyond, where strange things lead lives so much different from our own. My horror concerns itself with the universes beyond sight and sound, worlds only seen with the eye of the imagination, and their interaction with the lives of unsuspecting people who are trying to eek along as best they can.. Bizarre? Maybe. But this world is a weird place, and my goal is to make it a bit stranger with each story I write. So long story short I'm a pretty busy guy.

Posts by Andrew Kincaid:

• May 21, 2012 Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King (2010)

• May 19, 2012 The Yurei: Japan’s Lost Souls

• May 16, 2012 You’re Looking at a Freshly Minted Graduate! (Sort of)

• May 14, 2012 Announcement: On Dark Paths is now on Nook and Smashwords!

• May 14, 2012 Red State (2011)

• May 11, 2012 “Bloody Mary…Bloody Mary…”–The Science Behind an Old Sleep-Over Game

• May 9, 2012 Word Abuse #2 – “Love, Hate, Love”

• May 5, 2012 Stalin’s Super Soldiers

• May 2, 2012 Word Abuse #1 – “It’s just a theory!”

• April 30, 2012 Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre by HP Lovecraft

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