Fred Wiehe, Author Biography

Fred Wiehe, Horror Author

BIOGRAPHY

Fred Wiehe is a member of the Horror Writer's Association. He writes novels that crossover many genres: horror, mystery, fantasy, science fiction, suspense and supernatural thrillers. He's the author of such novels as STARKVILLE, NIGHT SONGS, THE BURNING, and his newest novel STRANGE DAYS. Fred has written a movie script. The screenplay is based on his novel, THE BURNING. To read a FREE sample, click MOVIE SCRIPT! (All rights reserved. Registered WGAw No. 922169. Agents or producers interested in reading the entire script should email fwiehe@fredwiehe.com.) Fred is also a creative writing instructor. He's written a new e-book titled CREATIVE WRITING; Get Started Writing Fiction. He also offers critiquing and editing services.

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Fred's short story Trick or Treat; It's the Puppet People will be appearing in the 2007 Halloween edition of Sinister Tales. Buy it in October at http://www.darknessproductions.com/orderst.htm.

Fred just signed with literary manager Brendan Deneen of Objective Entertainment in New York. Brendan will be representing Fred's new novel ALERIC, Monster Hunter. Brendan is formally an Executive of Production and Development for Dimensions Films, working on such movies as Sin City and 1408. Brendan also writes the comic book series Scatterbrain with artist Szymon Kudranski. Recently, he returned to his literary roots, joining Objective Entertainment in New York. Besides Fred and others, Brendan also represents Amber Benson of Buffy the Vampire fame. To read more about Brendan and Objective Entertainment click the link below. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i89e4f40c1678880cd3c580db6a1363bb

INTRODUCTION

Let me introduce myself; my name is Fred Wiehe. I’m a writer of paranormal, occult fiction, commonly referred to as horror fiction and am a proud member of the Horror Writer's Association. My novels include Strange Days, The Burning, Night Songs, and Starkville. I am of course an avid fan of the strange and bizarre. My world is a place where paranormal and supernatural events occur on a frequent basis, at least in the fertile and twisted thoughts lurking in the dark shadows of my cobweb-laden mind. Everyday I sweep away those cobwebs, as if the inside of my head was an attic, and discover new morbid and dark fantasies hiding amongst old, discarded memories. It’s the birthplace of Strange Days and that novel’s evil entity—a monster from another dimension—that steals a common man’s body and embarks on a bloody killing spree throughout San Francisco. It’s the place where the people in The Burning first spontaneously combusted, leaving nothing behind but charred bones and the acrid odor of burnt flesh. The shape-shifters from Night Songs also dwell there, mutating into predatory beasts on the prowl for fresh meat—human meat. It’s the world the ancient parasite in Starkville first entered a human host through a nasal passage or ear canal and turned that unsuspecting person into a psychotic killer by eating away at his brain.

But fear not. It’s not just wickedness and monsters that dwell within this attic of fantasies. There are heroes and heroines living there too. People just like you and me who stand strong against the challenges of preternatural evil. People who fight for not only their lives and the lives of their loved ones, but who also fight for the salvation of all humanity. As examples, Frank Talbort and David Kemp were born in that dark, foreboding attic in my head, two men who not only join forces but merge their spirits into one body to combat the monster who stole Frank’s body in Strange Days. Also San Francisco homicide inspector Phyllis Blessing calls this place home, and she must uncover the mystery behind the strange, fire-ravaged deaths in The Burning before the entire population of Serenity Bay is lost to Hell’s fire. It’s the birthplace of the two San Jose cops in Night Songs, Alfie Free and Tommy Chandler, who must save not only themselves but a band of Gypsies and all of Big Sur from a ravenous pack of flesh-eating shape-shifters. Maggie Stark lives there too. She is the heroine of Starkville who must single-handedly stop the parasitic infestation that plagues her hometown and save her son Billy from the clutches of the parasite’s newest victim.

After all that, you’d think this single, dusty room I call my mind—crammed full of not only gruesome wickedness but also righteous courage—would be overpopulated with monsters, victims, heroines, and heroes by now. You’d think an evil breakdown or demonic possession from all the supernatural activity would be in my tarot cards. You’d think I’d need an exorcist. You’d think that no more space could possibly exist and that one more horrid creature or one more hapless victim or one more spirited defender of all that is good would topple the body housing this attic of the supernatural right down onto its foundation.

Such is not the case … yet.

As we speak, there are multiple, new evils lurking within these haunted walls, searching for points of escape. All are eager to unleash their wicked plans on the unsuspecting world and to come alive on the written page in my new novel ALERIC, Monster Hunter.

When I sit down to write, ravenous, flesh-eating zombies rip into walls and crash through windows in their mindless attempts at making it to the outside world. They’re driven instinctually by their need to feed on human flesh. Nightly, vampires rise from their coffins and hang upside down from the rafters, biding their time but always on the lookout for a way to escape onto the written page and prey on unsuspecting victims, their bloodlust ready to erupt like volcanoes in Hell. A mad scientist also now lives within this room of horrors. He’s unsure about making himself known. He hides behind the discarded memories, out of sight, meek and cowardly, afraid of everything and everyone. Afraid to truly live, he searches for scientific means to find the strength and courage he’s sure is hidden deep within him, buried there like a corpse but just waiting to be reanimated. Also afraid of death, he’s even more desperate to discover a means to immortality. But what he finds is a dark side better left buried. What he unleashes is a part of him so primitive and savage that no one is safe, not even him.

Of course, Monster Hunter comes with a hero too: Aleric Toma Bimbai, who just might be the greatest hero of all. He emerged one lonely night from the deepest and darkest shadows within me like an avenging angel, more than eager to combat the supernatural evil that had consumed every corner of the dusty, dank attic I call my mind. He is a two hundred year old Gypsy, a bounty hunter of supernatural monsters. He is no angel, though, but rather a rogue only slightly better than the creatures he hunts. He is a gun for hire, with dark secrets and preternatural powers of his own. He is also a legend among his people, idolized and revered by most but abhorred and hated by others. He is a man with many allies and many enemies. His allies live comfortable in the knowledge that he will defend them to the death. His enemies live in total fear. He is a man who stands and fights alone on many fronts. He is a man who hunts and exterminates supernatural creatures.

Book One of this series will only tell a small part of his story, though. For this hero is too big to be contained within the pages of just one novel. His secrets are dark and many. His exploits border on the mythical and the legendary. His is a land where good versus evil in a never-ending battle for supremacy, and in his world a very thin line separates the two. He walks that line every night. He is in a constant struggle to remain on the side of good, but he must often cross over to the side of evil and meet his adversaries on their own ground. Defeat is not an option. He is a hero who believes that the end does justify the means, and he will do whatever he must to win and to stay alive to fight another day. To that end there is a price to pay. But he pays it willingly, sacrificing eternal salvation for his own soul to help make the world better for all.

With Book Two looming around the edges of my consciousness, I see no end to the battle for supernatural supremacy of my mind.

The attic is cramped but not yet full.

New villains and criminals lurk in dark corners, preying on the unsuspecting. New life is breathed into an assortment of monsters committing horrid acts of destruction and pain. Never-ending supplies of hapless victims suffer and die amongst the clutter and debris. But more importantly, new-found heroes or heroines always seem to step to the forefront in time of need. From whence they come I’m not always sure. But when they arrive it’s as if I have known them forever, as if they are a part of me I didn’t yet know existed. What I do know is that their courage and fortitude will be tested to extreme as they attempt to thwart the abhorrent acts of the preternatural creatures let loose upon the earth. For their work is never truly done; the ongoing war between good and evil rages with the fury of an inexhaustible hurricane. Where there is light, there is always dark. Where there is good, there is always evil. The struggle between these two powerful forces is eternal.

And until I die, I am here to tell their stories. I hope you come along with me for thrilling rides into the paranormal and supernatural worlds first created in the dark attic of my mind and brought to life between the covers of my novels.

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