Look and Listen

Biography

Nicholas Alan Tillemans is a humorist and writer of extreme adult horror fiction. His provocative short horror stories have appeared online and in two print anthologies. His first published novella Hard Ball is a dark comedy with a large cast of crazed characters wading through an absurdist landscape where life is cheap. It stands in contrast with his horror stories, where the horror is more graphic and the humor less obvious. Returning from hiatus, he recently released Acetone Enema: A Morbid Collection of Short Stories & Poetry to keep some previously published short stories in circulation. He added two previously unreleased stories to the collection, one written in collaboration with UK surrealist author Mike Philbin. He promises his first full-length extreme adult sci-fi/horror novel The Torture of Girth is nearing completion.

He studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Minnesota and has lived to tell many tales about his harrowing adventures with the odd company he has kept.

When not writing, Nicholas works a soul-sucking day job; and, in what little time remains, he enjoys brewing beer, keeping fish, building things around the house and spending time with his wife and son.

Visit him at: MuscularFiction.com

Inspiration

Nicholas has found inspiration from studies of 20th Century philosophy of logic, language and mind, esp. Quine, Carnap, Schlick, and Ayer. He is passionate about visually stunning horror movies: Italian Slashers (Argento, Bava), and anything bizarre, think David Cronenberg Videodrome or John Carpenter's The Thing. He has been influenced greatly by the writings of Poe, King, and Lovecraft. He has most recently enjoyed reading "John Dies at the End" and "The House of Leaves". He enjoys reading about modern technology, politics and real crime.