Fueling Curiosity For the Next Dimension

Fueling Curiosity For the Next Dimension

Perhaps for people who are missing television shows like Angel, The Night Stalker and, Buffy the Vampire Slayer will find satisfaction in Fosters’ horror tales.

Port Dover is best known to motorcycle enthusiasts for Friday the 13th celebrations. Like most legends, the actual origin is lost to history, but lost origin or not, there is a scientific name for it- triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13, or paraslevidekatriaphobia, an actual fear of Friday-the-13th itself.

With this natural backdrop, how could you not use it as a setting for Horror books? Vollmer's Hollow a.k.a. Port Dover- was first inhabited by the Neutral First Nations . For more than 200 years, Port Dover was host to European explorers and missionaries, who enjoyed a humble existence along the shores of Lake Erie.

For James W Foster, these interesting facts only begged to be twisted slightly in a macabre fiction kind-a way, and who better to do so than a lifelong fan of the bizarre.

“I don't really know how I wound up being so interested in the macabre," says James. "I do remember however, that even at a young age I was always fascinated by tales of ghosts, vampires, psychopaths, and the like."

It is also rumored that he once died for a short period of time fueling his curiosity about the possible circumstances of the next dimension.

Proven by book sales of authors such as Stephen King, James is hardly alone in this rather morbid sort of curiosity. "Maybe what draws us to this sort of fiction is that it speculates on the possibility that ghosts and other supernatural phenomenon really do exist. This in turn could be conceived as a means of reinforcing our belief that there is a life after death. I truly believe that there are many aspects of our existence that we, as humans, are simply unequipped to understand and horror/dark fiction helps us to open our minds to some of these possibilities.” Says James.

All of Fosters' short stories and novels intertwine with one another. Many of his characters make appearances in several tales. Something akin to Stephen King's 'Derry,” but uniquely branded with his own morbid sense of humor and wit.

The best part of Foster’s creations are what they don’t have- predictability. He draws from a variety of sources while writing dark fiction. In Dianne Hollander he used the maliciousness of a deranged woman for appalling potential. In Canyon a tribe of cannibalistic Indians that have kept themselves hidden for centuries provide the terror, and in his short story collections, Tales of Vollmer's Hollow books 1 & 2 he uses a combination of man's own potential for evil to spin his webs of wickedness.

Fosters creations of the horror fiction can be found at select bookstores. For more information visit http://www.rainbooks.com/

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