Ask the Author: Lewis Stanek
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Lewis Stanek
I am just starting on a supernatural horror novel about a castle. This will be my NANOWWRIMO projects this year. Here is a little taste:
If someone asked you describe the library where would you begin? The musty scent of decaying books wafting across the room upon a sea of dust hanging still in the stale air. Or would you tell of the walls of books surrounding you, the darkness that seemed to be everywhere, darkness that even overpowered the sunlight coming from the paned windows in protest to the gloom of the long abandoned room. The library is dark and intimidating. It is as if the darkness oozed from the ornately carved mahogany shelves like puss from an gangrenous sore. The theme of the carvings along the shelves worked to draw ones eyes to the tin tile ceiling that long ago lost its luster and gleam, but the interlocking floral pattern could still be discerned and barely beneath that pattern seemed to hide grotesque faces each in torment, all staring down from above.
If someone asked you describe the library where would you begin? The musty scent of decaying books wafting across the room upon a sea of dust hanging still in the stale air. Or would you tell of the walls of books surrounding you, the darkness that seemed to be everywhere, darkness that even overpowered the sunlight coming from the paned windows in protest to the gloom of the long abandoned room. The library is dark and intimidating. It is as if the darkness oozed from the ornately carved mahogany shelves like puss from an gangrenous sore. The theme of the carvings along the shelves worked to draw ones eyes to the tin tile ceiling that long ago lost its luster and gleam, but the interlocking floral pattern could still be discerned and barely beneath that pattern seemed to hide grotesque faces each in torment, all staring down from above.
Lewis Stanek
My wife asked me to write it. She gave me the subject, I did the research and wrote the book. I lost it three times due to computer problems and had to start over each time. I am glad it is done.
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