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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Jul 4, 2019
- 10 min
Read an Excerpt of The Wraith
My latest novel - The Wraith - is coming July 9 in both print & Kindle editions. It's a companion story to my bestselling The Man From Taured. It's also set in my fictional town of Knorr, PA. The men from IDEA are back, first introduced in TMFT. The Wraith tells two parallel stories. One, about a man during WWII who discovers a portal into a new realm which seems to allow for teleportation of men and materials. The second story is set in modern times and tells the story of Kn
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Apr 20, 2019
- 1 min
My new horror short story is out for you Kindle fans
I do love writing short stories as much as I do my novels. Going on a bit of a short story bender is a challenge to my brain and I can get nastier and a little more grim with my short stories. They also will eventually all become episodes for my podcast, so there's a bonus. I just dropped a new 99 cents Kindle-only short story out there. A creepy little horror story about a pair of sunglasses which shows a lot more than just the world with dimmed sunlight. Get it for your Kin
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Feb 13, 2019
- 4 min
What is the Mandela Effect?
Quick, answer from your heart and not from your brain. Did South African civil rights leader, Nelson Mandela die while in prison during the late 70s or did he get out of jail in the 90s and eventually become the President of South Africa and die in his old age decades later? As for me, I distinctly remember the day, when I was in college, watching Mandela released from jail. My friends and I watched this event happen on CNN and were amazed. It seemed like it would never happe
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Oct 31, 2018
- 1 min
Check out iTunes for When the Night Comes Out
In case you are more of an iTunes person than an Audible person - you can get the audiobook version of When the Night Comes Out there, too. Just click on the image below. #audiobook #horror #horrorstories #shortstories #horrorstories #iTunes #Listen #scary #audio
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Oct 23, 2018
- 1 min
Today is the Day! When the Night Comes Out Is Here!
Today is publication day! When the Night Comes Out is available for you to purchase in PRINT and Kindle editions! For these four terrifying short stories and one novella - click the cover image below! Tell a friend! #horror #horrorshortstories #shortstories #newbook #newrelease #pulished #publicationday #terrifying #terror #scary #novella
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Sep 7, 2018
- 2 min
Storyland - now available as audiobook
I am very pleased to announce that the audiobook version of my bestselling 2017 psychological thriller Storyland is now available! Named as a best of 2017 by book bloggers and a semi-finalist in the Soon to be Famous Author Illinois contest, this is an intense and terrifying psychological thriller about repressed memories, childhood, and the nightmares which lurk withing our own mind. Available at Amazon and Audible, I am proud to have worked with Tweet Productions to create
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Sep 5, 2018
- 4 min
Writing Horror: Channeling the negative
Writing about dark subjects is something a lot of people ask me about. I have had conversations with other people who are just baffled at how dark some of my work is. How did you come up with that? What made you even think about something like that? Why do you write about such dark things? Why do you write about scary things? Can't you write about puppies, bunnies and flowers for once? Of course, I have had an interest in dark things since I was a kid. I tell people the movie
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Aug 28, 2018
- 4 min
Why writing short stories is important
My latest book, When the Night Comes Out, coming out close to Halloween 2018, is a collection of short stories. The stories themselves were all published on their own and are still available for about 99 cents a piece and just available for Kindle. For some people, the question I sometimes get asked is, with all of the novels and the fact I am fairly quick at cranking out books, why bother with short stories at all. So, I thought I'd go through some of the things I love about
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Bryan Alaspa
- Apr 23, 2018
- 4 min
Enjoy the Silence: A review of 'A Quiet Place'
Possible SPOILERS ahead: This is just a review of the terrifying new horror movie A Quiet Place, and I will try not to give too much away. However, if you are one of those oddballs who prefers to know nothing about a movie before you see it - stop now and come back later. 'Kay? Have you ever really sat in silence during a movie? I mean, really, really, total and utter silence. You may think you have, but until you see the new movie A Quiet Place, you have not actually sat the
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Apr 9, 2018
- 5 min
Why the horror of "Jaws" still works on me (part two: the novel)
SPOILERS AHEAD - if you haven't read the novel... Peter Benchley was a writer trying to make a living off of his art for years. He had an agent and that agent was able to get in touch with a publisher and present a number of ideas Benchley had indicated he thought would make good books. One of them was about his obsession when it came to sharks. He had spent much of his youth obsessed with learning all about sharks and things related to the sea. The publisher assumed he was a
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Feb 26, 2018
- 3 min
Audiobooks: Listening to the horror
The first time I listened to an audiobook it was way back in the late 80s when my family and I were about to hit the road for a long roadtrip. It was a huge box of cassette tapes to listen to on my Walkman of Stephen King reading The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger. As a fan of King, I had heard of this novel, but knew it had only been released in a limited release and this was the first time I had seen it made available in any format to the public. Riding in the car across the mo
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Feb 23, 2018
- 1 min
S.P.I.D.A.R. is out today!
Today is the day! At long last, the hype is over and now it's just time to be terrified. My new horror book, and first book published with Beacon Publishing Group, S.P.I.D.A.R. is out today! In ALL formats, folks. Are you afraid of spiders? Many people are... If so, then this one will really scare you. SYNOPSIS: The town of Whittier is isolated in Alaska and the people all live within towers once used by the military. The tourist season is over and winter is on the way. Then
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Feb 22, 2018
- 3 min
The Real Life Whittier Alaska
For my new novel, S.P.I.D.A.R., I decided it would be fun to set it in a place cut off from the rest of the world. A place where it would almost be feasible that the actions taking place within the novel could happen. That meant creating a place totally cut off - perhaps one where pretty much the entire population lived in one very large building. Well, for inspiration, I turned to the real-life town of Whittier, Alaska, then named my own fictional version after it and filled
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Feb 21, 2018
- 3 min
Spider Facts: the Black Widow
There are few spiders in the world with a more fearsome, and undeserved, reputation than the black widow spider. They are just the epitome of "evil" to a lot of people. They are a shiny black with the bright red hourglass markings. They are notorious for being deadly poisonous and for eating their mates - giving rise to the idea of wives who kill their husbands being labeled "black widows." There was even a movie out in the 80s with that as a title about a vicious woman who d
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Feb 19, 2018
- 3 min
Scary Insects: The emerald cockroach wasp
The world of insects... so much to truly be afraid of. Of course, most of it is at a very small level and most of the time you, as a full-fledged human being, do not need to worry about little wasps like the one above: the Emerald Cockroach Wasp or jewel wasp. Look at it. It's beautiful, and it's relatively small, and it poses virtually no threat to people unless a person were to grab it and hold it. If you're a cockroach, though, you would find the emerald cockroach wasp the
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Feb 16, 2018
- 3 min
Spider Facts: the Brown Recluse Spider
For the most part, we are pretty lucky here in North America when it comes to spiders. If you live in Central or South America or some of the warmer or more tropical climates (or Australia - so many deadly things live there it's almost unfair) you may have poisonous spiders, ants, centipedes or giant spiders or other insects. However, in the U.S. and North America there are few spiders to fear - but there are a couple. One of the most infamous is the Brown Recluse Spider The
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Feb 15, 2018
- 1 min
New horror book: S.P.I.D.A.R. available for Kindle Pre-Order
The town of Whittier is isolated in Alaska and the people all live within towers once used by the military. The tourist season is over and winter is on the way. Then a body washes up on shore. A body that says it's from the government facility across the sound at Esther Island. With a storm coming, the citizens of Whittier have to deal with this on their own. They put the body in the basement of the towers, but their doctor wants to find out what killed this man. Was it a dis
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Bryan W. Alaspa
- Feb 13, 2018
- 3 min
Zombie insects
The world of insects is a generally terrifying place. As the Jeff Goldblum character in The Fly says - it is a basic and brutal place. This is true. There may be debate these days as to whether or not insects or other animals have any kind of emotion, but the fact is most insect species have set orders and duties for each member of the colony or nest to do. They attack other insects for food, raid nests, kill opposing nests and defend nests with a sort of insane brutality. So
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