Looking for something freaky to read for Halloween? My short story “The Fate of Dr. Fincher” and the prologue to my novel Burning the Middle Ground are now available on this website’s fiction page! Please encourage anyone with an interest in the macabre to have a look at https://landrewcooper.com/fiction/
The two pieces now available are what I read on Saturday, October 27. For “The Fate of Dr. Fincher,” I read alongside BlackWyrm authors Michael Williams and William Levy at A Reader’s Corner.
Left to right: William Levy, Michael Williams, and L. Andrew Cooper (the latter with beginnings of the long-promised Beard that Heralds the First Novel)
The crowd was small but enthusiastic. Later, we rocked the mic at The Bard’s Town–more readers, more listeners, more wine and beer. Listeners gasped audibly when I reached the climax of Burning the Middle Ground‘s prologue. Afterward, people told me I have a sick mind. That’s a good thing, right?
L. Andrew Cooper specializes in the provocative, scary, and strange. He owns and serves as publisher and primary editor for fiction imprint Horrific Scribblings, which, among other things, publishes Horrific Scribes, a web archive of dark fiction (and some poetry). His works include novels and novellas The Skinner Effect, Father Is Pleased, The Middle Reaches (a series), Alex’s Escape, Noir Falling, Records of the Hightower Massacre [with Maeva Wunn], Crazy Time, Burning the Middle Ground, and Descending Lines; short story collections Stains of Atrocity, Peritoneum, and Leaping at Thorns; poetry collection The Great Sonnet Plot of Anton Tick; non-fiction Dario Argento and Gothic Realities; co-edited fiction anthologies Reel Dark and Imagination Reimagined; and the co-edited textbook Monsters. He has also written 35 award-winning screenplays. After studying literature and film at Princeton and Harvard, he used his Ph.D. to teach about favorite topics from coast to coast in the United States. He now focuses on writing and lives with his husband and cat in North Hollywood, California.
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