Anthony Beal
Anthony Beal is a 31-year-old New Mexico transplant, a New York native whose passions include aged tequila, cajun food done right, and writing dark horror poetry and short stories as well as regularly contributing non-fiction articles to such publications as Haunted Times Magazine. A passionate fan of Edgar Allen Poe, Poppy Z. Brite, Lovecraft, Piers Anthony, John Skipp and Craig Spector, he feels that Brite, Poe, and Lovecraft have had the greatest influence on his writing style. Anthony enjoys
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February 20, 2006
One could almost forget that mere months ago, its streets had lain ruined by toppled trees and shattered windowpanes.
In testament to the kind of courage in the face of uncertain times that has long defined it, New Orleans saw its first major Mardi Gras parades roll on Saturday, February 18 beneat...
February 03, 2006
I was pleased to read the thoughts of the RedState.org poster calling himself TheSophist in a recent response to my American Chronicle article entitled “Dine, Young Cannibals - Pop cultural influence and African-American accountability face off”, as posts such as his are what compelling conversation...
January 19, 2006
For fifty-seven years, every January nineteenth, the mystery man known as the ?Poe Toaster? has paid tribute to the gravesite of famed author Edgar Allen Poe. On each occasion leaving a bottle of cognac and a trio of roses believed to represent Poe, his wife Virginia, and his mother, the ?Toaster? ...
December 20, 2005
I once made the mistake of sharing with an Internet email-pal during an auspiciously blossoming acquaintanceship that I was a writer by passion, holding particular affinity for penning horror stories. What surprised me even more than her reactionary declaration that she was a Christian and inasmuch...