Macabre Mansion, in a recent review of "Funereal Diseases of the Mind":
….The author of this book has definite talent. His skillful use of language meant that there were places in this book that I was disgusted, creeped out, amused, and even horrified…I will be on the look out for Mr. Beal's work in the future….”
Read the entire review by clicking here
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Author Bio
NY native Anthony Beal enjoys writing, wines, and cooking spicy food. He has published in over one hundred print and online publications, and collects books and music like they've been outlawed. His other interests include anime, Food Network programming, graphic novels, studying the Japanese language, the poetry of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and web authoring. His writing is influenced by Marquez and Dunbar, as well as by Poe, Brite, Equiano, and Lovecraft. He also enjoys maintaining his website at www.TheOfficialAnthonyBeal.com where he regularly posts excerpts of his dark erotica.
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Print: $15.00 Download: $4.50 **EROTICA: ADULTS ONLY** The fifteen tales of horror erotica gathered here and written by dark erotica writer Anthony Beal will bring you face to face with gods and vampires, psychotics and witches, shapeshifters and demons, and strip them bare for your delight and theirs. These stories they will tell huddled in crumbling dive motels and moonlit lakeside cabins where life and death are equally fleeting. They will bring you along on 2 a.m. pub crawls and sex club excursions that know their darkest sins. Most importantly, these offerings will awaken both character and reader to the fact that while love may or may not make the world go ‘round, lust conquers all.
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Print: $9.85 Download: $2.50 **EROTICA: ADULTS ONLY** A work of fifty-two erotic poems from Dark Erotica Writer Anthony Beal, a writer equally adept at commanding passion’s romantic subtleties and its animal rawness. Beal expresses these in lurid language that is elegant and laden with imagery that makes this an ideal read for couples to enjoy together. Anyone that enjoys erotic poetry should find much to savor amidst the pages of this book of Anthony Beal’s collected poetic erotica.
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What did you first read? How did you begin to write? Who were the first to read what you wrote?
Reading was always a big part of my household growing up, my parents both being avid readers. When I entered my teens and came of sufficient age to purchase my own reading material, I tended toward horror novels, not discovering erotica until some years later. “The Light at the End” by John Skipp and Craig Spector was the first novel I ever read that blended these two genres to my satisfaction, and is the piece I credit with tempting me to try my own hand at writing. I began writing horror stories in my teens; terrible things that will never again see the light of day. When I did try my hand at writing erotica, it was poetry, then fiction. The first people to read my dark erotica were my friends at the time. My parents read my horror creations (those stories without any erotic elements,) and aside from looking at me funny for a while after having read them, were mostly supportive. What is your favorite genre? Can you provide a link to a site where we can read some of your work or learn something about it?
I can’t say I have one favorite genre. As to what I most enjoy reading, I distribute my interests across the following (in no particular order): horror, graphic novels, biography, erotica, nonfiction. The following link, at which excerpts of my work and links to complete works can be found, leads to my website: http://www.theofficialanthonybeal.com. What type of reading inspires you to write
I read what I most enjoy writing, because I believe that this is the best way to improve one’s craft, not to mention, avoid writing redundant things that too closely resemble existing works. That is to say that I make a point of reading as much erotica and horror as I can, that my style of writing should undergo constant evolution.
Read the full interview here.
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