Southern Fried and Horrified - Paperback

by Ronald Kelly (Author)

In Southern-Fried & Horrified, Splatterpunk Award- winning author Ronald Kelly expounds on a lifetime shaped by his love of horror and the macabre, as well as a thirty-six-year career as a Southern storyteller. His early influences, the long road to publication, success as a Zebra Horror author, the devastating collapse of mass market publishing in the mid-1990s, and his ten-year hiatus from writing and horror... it is all here, between two covers, as well as his triumphant return to the genre and a fresh, new resurgence of his creativity and popularity. Sprinkled generously throughout are essays, writing advice, and lists of Kelly's favorite books and movies, as well as his most cherished heroes, villains, and creatures from the RK mythos. Hunter Shea, author of Creature and To the Devil, A Cryptid, says, " This will sit on my shelf right next to King's On Writing. A treasure to be rediscovered over and over."

Author Biography

Ronald Kelly was born and raised in the hills and hollows of Middle Tennessee. He became interested in horror as a child, watching the local " Creature Feature" on Saturday nights and " The Big Show" -- a Nashville-based TV show that presented every old monster movie ever made -- in the afternoons after school. In high school, his interest turned to horror literature and he read such writers as Poe, Lovecraft, Matheson, and King. He originally had dreams of becoming a comic book artist and created many of his own super heroes. But during his junior year, the writing bug bit him.