Peacham resident Bob Ryan recently self-published his second novel, Dracula Lives, at Amazon. On Tuesday, August 23rd, 7pm Bob will be talking about that experience -- what to do and what not to do – at Peacham Library. In addition to talking about the publishing experience, Bob is sure to talk about his book.
Bob has this to say about how he got into writing "I was born and raised in D.C. and lived directly behind the neighborhood movie theater. As a kid I couldn’t wait for the Saturday creature features. Atomic mutants running amok, the monsters of Ray Harryhausen, Roger Corman’s Poe films, and the unabashed frightfests of William Castle were among the early influences that warped my writer’s muse into a breeding ground for—to borrow a line from Morbius in Forbidden Planet—my “Monsters from the Id.” In Castle’s The Tingler, when Vincent Price told us all to scream because the Tingler was loose in the theater, you better believe I screamed. On the literary front I followed the trail Edgar Allan Poe blazed into the “ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.” And yet, I also dabbled in standup comedy for a year way back when, which proves that funny and scary can (more or less) peacefully co-exist in the same brain. Just be sure to keep the garlic and wolfbane handy...”
Peacham Library programs are free and open to the public. The Community Center Theater was supported by the Vermont Arts Council and the State of Vermont. For further information, contact Peacham Library at 592-3216 or peachamlib@fairpoint.net