A Gothic Horror at War

Dracula awakes from slumber in 1942 to find the Nazis storming across Europe, his brides drenched in dreams of destroying the patriarchal war-sickness of men, and an ancient, cursed relic in the hands of a newborn Polish vampire.

DRACULA 1942 is a 92,000-word adult horror novel blending Dracula’s gothic dread with a bloody sip or two of Inglourious Basterds. It’s Nosferatu meets the braided, dual-perspective war tale of Katherine Arden’s The Warm Hands of Ghosts by way of the operatic savagery of Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Vampire.

That one quote from Kafka always comes to me when I think about writing:

“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”

I’ve been writing for twenty years, honing my craft and slowly letting those lines sink in.

I run a business that specializes in turning up the excitement in websites, writing, or online content. I live to code, write, and build things by telling stories. Anything creative is the axe that breaks my frozen sea.

I’ve recently started a YouTube channel and socials for my creative endeavors and I’m loving the chance to engage with audiences and make my own content. I also just got married to a librarian, so it’s a household of book lovers here. I have no formal training other than writing classes in college. I’m currently looking forward to another beautiful Wisconsin summer with all my friends and family.