It follows Gerald Evan, a smoking, drinking salvage pilot and anti-hero with no small amount of self-love, who comes to Crescent Station seeking a small fortune and early retirement. The novel is about sin and greed-it’s the human experience. Within a few chapters, I realized I had a book on my hand.” Crescent was intended to be a Sci Fi/Horror series, but not a novel. I’ve always been one for instant gratification and I realized I could write a story and get it out pretty quickly to a potential audience. Needless to say, my gears were spinning in strange and wonderful ways. I was watching Joss Whedon’s Firefly for the first time, I was rediscovering Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, and I had just stumble into the world of podcast fiction as a listener. “There was no one single inspiration for Crescent, but rather a fairly diverse list of things I was into at the time. What his inspirations were and of course if we could have a little sneak-peek. I decided to ask Rossi about his well known novel Crescent. Horror is a fun experience–a rollercoaster ride for the mind.” could perform Aliens as a monologue, near verbatim. At the same time, was introduced to Alien and Aliens. was at a very impressionable age, and some of those episodes (and the classic comics) really shaped take on horror.
Squidman horror series#
fell in love with HBO’s Tales from the Crypt series back in 1989 when it still aired. While, the Squidman is as biological an entity as the story’s protagonist.” How does it differ from my typical writing? Generally, the “evil” in my stories deal with forces than transcend flesh, blood, and bone (or cartilage). It’s territory where I haven’t really tread before, but I had a great time with the experience. “The Squidman is strictly a monster story, certainly inspired by some of the iconic classics. I asked Phil what it was like to write the story, compared the type of stories he usually writes. It’s a love story on several different levels. The tide drags in a little more than shells and sea weed. “ The story is about a father and daughter who are vacationing in the Outer Banks while a persistent low pressure system churns up the waters off the North Carolina coast. The name of his story just happens to be Squid Man. This time around I was able to interview Phil Rossi for Horror Addicts.Įpisode 45: Squidman, is his first appearance on Horror Addicts.