Withersin’s Damned Interview with:

 

Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc

Best selling, triple award winning Horror Sinisteria/Dark Eclectic author, and owner of Twisted Dreams and Worlds Within Worlds Beyond Magazines.

 

List published works/accomplishments:

Titles:

The Two

A Man of Two Worlds

Michael

Twilight Innocent (slated for re-release 2009)

Left To The Night Alone

The Legacy – The Grounds of Nachmasheeghan

Poison’s Treasures

Olde Worlde Magic – Superstitions and Lore

A Walk In the Moonlight  - True Tales of Hauntings and Strange Coincidences

Calloused – The Tombstone Tales

 

Accomplishments:

June 2005 – Bestseller – Borders for The Two

2005 Preditors & Editors Horror Novel of The year for A Man of Two Worlds

2006 2nd place finisher – Horror Category P & E for Michael

2007 – 3rd place finisher – Author of 2007 P & E fan vote

 

List website:  http://thelosttheforgottenthedamned.com/

 

How can we contact you? murgaine@yahoo.com

 

 

In your own words, define Withersin.

I’m going to be completely technical in my answer. It might sound stupid but this is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of you. Wither…like to fade away to shrivel and die and sin…committing sin. Your souls have withered from sin. According to Dante’s Inferno test, I’m doomed to Level 5 – Styx. You can come hang out with me.

 

If you were a sideshow act, what would you be?

Bah…sideshows bore me. I’d like to walk the tightrope.

 

What is your greatest non-literary influence?

Storms, old and ruined castles and cemeteries.

 

Describe your most irrational fear.

That JAWS is waiting for me in the ocean.

 

How about your most guilty pleasure?

Chocolate ice cream with huge chunks of peanut butter in it.

 

Name the most disturbing nursery rhyme/fairy tale you can recall.

None of them bothered me, but I find nurseries in general, creepy.

 

Do you eat meat?

Carnivore all the way. I tried to be a veggie but I hate beans so no can do.

 

What were the skies like when you were young?

Dark, roiling and threatening…just as I like them to be all the time.  

 

Name your favorite garden tool.

Small shovel

 

Name your least favorite color, first job and worst job.

Beige…that color needs to be obliterated. Teaching baton was my first job and worst job… pick just one???

 

Favorite:  Author, Movie, Music Group, Song, and Quote.

Author… me of course! But if I had to choose someone other than me, I’d choose Sherrilyn Kenyon. But that sounds biased I know because I actually know her. I am also very fond of Angela Ashe. Her works are fabulous.

 

Movie: The original Dawn of The Dead or Matilda. Yeah, I’m all over the place.

 

Music group: The Eternal Fall or Funeral Dusk. I also like Der Verbantenn (I can never spell it right) Eva’s Kinder, as well as Neo Classical and dark ambient music. 

 

Song: Wildfire, Rocky Mountain High, Love Song For A Vampire, Save a Prayer. My music tastes are all over the place.

 

Quote: There never was night that had no morn…

 

If you were a loaf of bread what kind would you be?

Potato

 

Weirdest news you have read in your local newspaper:

If you knew my local paper, all of it seems weird in my view.

 

Why horror?

It’s as natural to me as breathing. I have always had a penchant for the dark, the morbid and the strange. Yet to look at me, you’d never know. I am one of those people that can walk the streets and people may or may not recognize me because I don’t look like “how I write” and I am constantly changing my hair.

 

Here's a photo. (seen on Interview main page)

“INEDIBLE NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN FOOD”

You have 112 words. Go.

Thank goodness because metal doesn’t taste good. Oh and I have to ask…have they had a real problem with this that they actually needed to put that warning on the truck? Is there a metal monster somewhere that we’ve never heard of?

 

 

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