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Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 18, 20193 min read
How The Man From Taured led to The Revisionists
A lot changed for me when I wrote the novel The Man from Taured. Not only has it slowly, over time, become one of my bestselling novels...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 14, 20191 min read
Happy Valentines Day - here's some gifts
Hey, so, it's Valentine's Day and I have a couple of little gifts for you. First - I dropped a new short story for you Kindle folks and...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Oct 14, 20184 min read
Excerpt: When the Night Comes Out
Just 9 days until my new book When the Night Comes Out arrives. It's a collection of horror short stories (and one novella) and, I think,...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Aug 1, 20181 min read
Author Bryan Alaspa announces release of horror short story collection "When the Night Comes Ou
Chicago horror author Bryan Alaspa announced on his website this week that 2018 will see the release of his latest collection of short...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Jul 30, 20181 min read
Coming Halloween 2018: When the Dark Comes Out
As a writer, sometimes writing a short story is just the thing I need to cleanse my palette and truly come up with some scary stuff. I...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
May 21, 20185 min read
The 'Jaws' Rip-Offs: Orca, the Killer Whale! Review
Spoiler alert: Look, this movie came out in 1977 and if you are a horror fan or nature-goes-amok fan and haven't seen it go watch it....
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Apr 30, 20184 min read
The JAWS Rip-offs: Barracuda - 1978
SPOILER ALERTS: This is a review of the 1978 B-movie and JAWS rip-off Barracuda. If you, for some reason, don't want spoilers about this...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Mar 17, 20183 min read
Upcoming books and freelance writing
Hello everyone. I just wanted to take a moment to thank you all for coming with me on the journey. The release of SPIDAR has been a major...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 27, 20184 min read
The journey to S.P.I.D.A.R.
One of the questions I as an author get asked a lot is - where do you get your story ideas? I have talked about my latest horror book...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 26, 20183 min read
Audiobooks: Listening to the horror
The first time I listened to an audiobook it was way back in the late 80s when my family and I were about to hit the road for a long...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 23, 20181 min read
S.P.I.D.A.R. is out today!
Today is the day! At long last, the hype is over and now it's just time to be terrified. My new horror book, and first book published...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 22, 20183 min read
The Real Life Whittier Alaska
For my new novel, S.P.I.D.A.R., I decided it would be fun to set it in a place cut off from the rest of the world. A place where it would...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 21, 20183 min read
Spider Facts: the Black Widow
There are few spiders in the world with a more fearsome, and undeserved, reputation than the black widow spider. They are just the...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 19, 20183 min read
Scary Insects: The emerald cockroach wasp
The world of insects... so much to truly be afraid of. Of course, most of it is at a very small level and most of the time you, as a...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 16, 20182 min read
Storyland: Now a semi-finalist
Last year I was invited by the wonderful Kara Kohn at the Plainfield Public Library here in Illinois to a local author event. I went...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 16, 20183 min read
Spider Facts: the Brown Recluse Spider
For the most part, we are pretty lucky here in North America when it comes to spiders. If you live in Central or South America or some of...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 14, 20183 min read
Insect Facts: the Tarantula Hawk Wasp
As I have mentioned, the world of insects is far, far more terrifying than anything I could write. It is a brutal world where almost all...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 13, 20183 min read
Zombie insects
The world of insects is a generally terrifying place. As the Jeff Goldblum character in The Fly says - it is a basic and brutal place....
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 12, 20183 min read
Spider facts: the deadliest spider in the world
People have been afraid of spiders for a long time. The term of fear of spiders is known as arachnophobia. Of course, a phobia itself is...
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Bryan W. Alaspa
Feb 11, 20183 min read
Writing Tips: Know when to walk away
This is the story of The Wraith. What the heck is The Wraith? The Wraith is a supernatural suspense/horror novel I wrote about a year or...
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