Horror Author Fred Wiehe's News and Updates

Horror Author Fred Wiehe

News and Updates

Welcome to horror novelist and creative writing instructor Fred Wiehe's news and updates page. Keep up with all the groundbreaking publication news on Fred's new books, read free short stories, follow his public appearances and calendar of events, and hear or read his public interviews.

Fred is the author of the short story Trick or Treat; It's the Puppet People. His novels include Strange Days, The Burning, Night Songs, and Starkville, and he has a new non-fiction book CREATIVE WRITING; Get Started Writing Fiction.

NEWS

October 8, 2007 Fred signed with literary manager Brendan Deneen of Objective Entertainment in New York. Brendan will be representing Fred's new novel ALERIC, Monster Hunter. Brendan is formally an Executive of Production and Development for Dimensions Films, working on such movies as Sin City and 1408. Brendan also writes the comic book series Scatterbrain with artist Szymon Kudranski. Recently, he returned to his literary roots, joining Objective Entertainment in New York. Besides Fred and others, Brendan also represents Amber Benson of Buffy the Vampire fame. To read more about Brendan and Objective Entertainment click the link below. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i89e4f40c1678880cd3c580db6a1363bb

October 2007 Fred's short story TRICK OR TREAT; IT'S THE PUPPET PEOPLE will be appearing in the Halloween edition of Sinister Tales, a magazine of dark fiction. This edition is scheduled for release and shipping on October 25, 2007. To read this story, buy your copy in October at http://www.darknessproductions.com/orderst.htm.

November 2007 On October 31 Fred unveiled his Halloween story TRICK OR TROLL. Click the title to read that story with the original ending. Thanks to his older brother Steve’s honest opinion that the ending was predictable (like Hide and Seek, Secret Window, and Angel Heart) Fred’s now offering the story with an alternate ending (yeah, just like a DVD movie). Click TRICK OR TROLL 2 to read the story with the new ending. And yes, you can vote for your favorite ending by emailing Fred at fwiehe@fredwiehe.com. Put Trick or Troll in the subject line and the ending you like best—one or two—in the body of the email. The ending with the most votes will be the one Fred sends out for publication.

November 24, 2007; midnight to 2am Fred will appear on 91.5 FM, KKUP, with host Jim McMillen. This all-volunteer, public radio station is having a Talk Marathon to raise operating funds. Fred and Jim will be talking about real GHOSTS STORIES. They'll share their own stories and take call-ins from people who want to share stories about their own brush with the ghostly world. Tune in. Call in. For phone numbers click KKUP.

December 9, 2007 Listen to Fred read his Christmas tale, A Gremlin for Christmas on You Tube.

December 19, 2007; 8am PST: Fred will be doing his annual Christmas/Horror show on KKUP, 91.5FM. This is definitely and officially a tradition. For the fourth consecutive year, Fred has written a Christmas/Horror story for Jim McMillen's "One from the Heart" audience. This year's story is entitled RUN, RUN RUDY; A ZOMBIE'S NOT TOO FAR BEHIND. Tune in to hear Fred read this original short story that spoofs the Christmas classic, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Read it for FREE now by clicking on the title. Fred's stories from year's past include A Gremlin for Christmas (2004), Holiday Madness (2005), and The Three Wolf Men (2006).

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World Horror Convention 2006 San Francisco, CA

Fred Wiehe returned from the World Horror Convention 2006 in San Francisco, where he hob-knobbed with fellow horror authors, publishers, celebrities, and horror fans from around the world. On Saturday night, Fred took part in a panel discussion; "Where are the new masters of horror." Joining him were Paula Guran, Chesya Burke, John Everson, and Michael Laimo. To see a pictorial of the four-day celebration of horror with such people as the great Peter Straub, Koji Suzuki author of THE RING, Nicholas Grabowsky author of HALLOWEEN IV, Angelina Robinson author of LOST HUNGER, and Bill Moseley star of House of 1000 Corpses CLICK HERE.

SiliCon 2006 DoubleTree Hotel San Jose, CA

Fred just returned from SiliCon 2006, non-profit convention run by fans of science fiction, fantasy, and horror for fans of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Proceeds benefited the Diabtetes Society of Santa Clara Valley. Fred participated in Meet the Guests, he donated books to the charity auction, and he participated on 3 panels: A Shiver or a Splatter, Genre or Pigeonhole, and Horror Literature and Society. To see a pictorial CLICK HERE.

UPDATES

Fred's just finished BOOK 1 of his new series titled ALERIC, MONSTER HUNTER. He also signed with literary manager Brendan Deneen of Objective Entertainment in New York to represent him. Brendan is formally an Executive of Production and Development for Dimensions Films, working on such movies as Sin City and 1408. Brendan also writes the comic book series Scatterbrain with artist Szymon Kudranski. Recently, he returned to his literary roots, joining Objective Entertainment in New York. Besides Fred and others, Brendan also represents Amber Benson of Buffy the Vampire fame. To read more about Brendan and Objective Entertainment click the link below. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i89e4f40c1678880cd3c580db6a1363bb

SYNOPSIS, ALERIC, Monster Hunter

Say hello to Aleric Toma Bimbai, a two-hundred-year-old Rom, Gypsy. He hunts monsters for bounty, a gun for hire, with secrets as dark as midnight in a graveyard. He is a hero and rogue rolled into one, with preternatural powers of his own, only slightly better than the supernatural creatures he hunts. His exploits border on the mythical and the legendary. His is a land where good versus evil in a never-ending battle for supremacy, and in his world a very thin line separates the two. He walks that line every night, in a constant struggle to remain on the side of good. But he must often cross over to the side of evil and meet his adversaries on their ground. Defeat is not an option. He is a hero who believes that the end does justify the means.

In BOOK 1, Aleric’s task is to save a zombie rather than exterminate it. But Wasso Wonko is no ordinary zombie. He’s different. He can still think. He can talk. Besides, Wasso is also Gypsy. Aleric soon uncovers an immoral alliance between local doctor, Wilhelm Ratterman, and the self-proclaimed King of the Gypsies, Carranza Tene. Tene is supplying his own people as guinea pigs for Ratterman’s bizarre experiments. Ratterman is in search of a serum that will not only give him strength and courage but also immortality. But he’s foolishly using the zombie virus as a catalyst in his serum. Under the guise of free flu shots, the doctor’s testing that undeadly serum on the Gypsies that King Tene supplies him. The results are devastating to the Gypsy community and to Ratterman himself. It’s up to Aleric to find an antidote if it exists and stop Doctor Ratterman at all costs, for he is the world’s best hope and last line of defense against evil. He is ALERIC, Monster Hunter.

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SHORT STORIES

A GREMLIN FOR CHRISTMAS (Christmas 2004) Read it FREE! Click on the title!

HOLIDAY MADNESS (Christmas 2005)

THE THREE WOLF MEN (Christmas 2006)

TRICK OR TREAT; IT'S THE PUPPET PEOPLE (Appearing in the 2007 Halloween edition of Sinister Tales, a dark fiction magazine. To read this story, buy your copy in October at http://www.darknessproductions.com/orderst.htm.)

RAVEN MOCKER (June 2007)

TRICK OR TROLL (Halloween 2007) TRICK OR TROLL 2 (Alternate Ending) Read both FREE. Click on the titles.

RUN, RUN RUDY; A ZOMBIE'S NOT TOO FAR BEHIND (Christmas 2007) Read it FREE! Click on the Title.

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INTERVIEWS

Global Talk Radio, A Story To Tell (audio interview) October 3, 2005

Page ONE Literary Website (written interview) 2003

BOOKS