Fear Fest was released last year and did very well so I am super excited to share the release of the follow-up to Fear Fest – Demon’s Gate!

Adam Frankenstein and his partner Rebecca shut down the gate with the help of Eli Van Helsing, Bram Stoker, and Victor Dracula. Not everyone they fought with or for lived. But, the gate was closed. The key was destroyed. Or was it? The final page of Fear Fest had our heroes discussing how the battle had been won, but if you look very close at the back of Rebecca’s neck you see the key was somehow transferred to her.

Now, our heroes are back and this time the villain Trillion wants that key no matter what it takes or who he has to kill.

I am still working on the comic script and hope to see Demon’s Gate finished by the end of February.

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Writing the comic book for Mary Shelley’s League of Supernatural Hunters I always knew Adam Frankenstein, the creature, would get his origin story. Not just the story of how the creature was created, which loosely follows the novel written by Shelley, but where the body parts came from.

In the novel, we know the creature is disfigured. He’s made from different parts of dead bodies and then animated to life.  In my comic book I tell the story of how those body parts came into the possession of Dr. Frankenstein and how those people lived before they became parts to create the whole of Adam.

I hint at his story in the comic book cover. And you get the feel of the comic on how Mary and Adam are together. Mary is a strong figure, a fighter. And you can clearly see she’s not fearful of the brutish Adam who stands behind her.

I hope people will enjoy the extra details of the creature’s life and how it came to be!

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Most people know who Mary Shelley is or at least they’ve heard of her book – Frankenstein. But, fewer people know who she actually was. She was an amazing woman who had so many hardships in her life.  She was a real-life heroine who did so many things most women would never have even imagined back in the early 1800s.

Researching Mary Shelley I’ve found so many interesting things about her life. She was a pregnant teenage runaway who fell in love with married man. She lost three children in her lifetime, all of whom were with that same married man – Percy Shelley.

Mary retained Percy’s calcified heart in brown wrap paper until the day she died.

Mary helped a couple, a transgender married couple, escape persecution.

She was romantically interested in Washington Irving (Sleep Hollow author),

She overcame tragedy and adversity holding strong to her convictions. All of that is true.

Making her a monster hunter wasn’t actually much of a stretch.

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I’m thrilled that my first comic book, Adam Frankenstein: Dog Fight has done so well! I credit so much of its success to my illustrator Evan Scale who I think is brilliant!

The comic book was a #1 New Release on Amazon the day it debuted and has been a reader favorite at signings. Now, not only did Reader’s Favorite give it an incredible 5-star review, it went on to win the book award in the Graphic Novel/Comic genre category! Of the thousands who submitted all over the world, my comic was one of the four that won! I’m so proud of this work.

I’ve been very fortunate in that my Adam books have all done well. My first book of Adam Frankenstein short stories won Suspense Magazine’s Best of 2016 in the horror category and it was chosen by Screencraft as a finalist in their Short Story contest.

The second book of Adam short stories – Adam Frankenstein: Search for a Soul just won the Gold Book Award from Literary Titan, which I’m also very excited about.

I am so grateful to everyone who gave Adam a try and especially to those who shared their excitement about his stories and left reviews!

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