William Cook

William Cook ‘Blood Related’ Review Posted by Matt Molgaard on June 5, 2013 in Authors A-L   Written by: Drake Morgan William Cook’s Blood Related delves into the mind and dark psychology of a serial killer named Caleb Cunningham. The story centers around Cunningham and his family who have all been connected to a series of brutal murders over a number of years. The story begins with a psychiatric overview and then progresses to Caleb’s version of events. The format of the narrative is interesting in that it makes not two shifts, but several. The first chapter is a first-person perspective from a court appointed psychiatrist. Through her, we get a very rough overview of the Cunninghams. We learn that there are twin brothers, both deeply psychotic and sinister. The psychiatrist examines Charlie during the course of a trial, but then becomes heavily involved with Caleb. We learn that Caleb is the true monster and the bulk of the narrative then...

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In researching my new novel, 'Blood Related,' I started out with a mission to read the majority of first person accounts of serial homicide, stream of consciousness-style fiction. Not for material, more for inspiration and admiration - just like those crazy books, quite glad my tastes are slowly shifting to a more classical appreciation of the dark arts! Not a soft option by any means! Here is my list. 1. Killer on The Road by James Ellroy 2. A Special Place: the heart of a dark matter by Peter Straub 3. The Killer by Colin Wilson 4. Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite 5. Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates 6. The Girls he Adored by Jonathan Nasaw 7. Head Hunter by Michael Slade 8. Stray Bullets (series) by David Lapham 9. The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson 10. I AM Not a Serial Killer (John Cleaver) by Dan Wells 11. Frenzy by Rex Miller 12. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks 13. American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis 14. Slob by Rex Miller 15. Psycho by...

Hi, it's been a while as I have been working frantically to complete my novel before Christmas time. It has been a 'work in progress' for the past four years and i'm pleased to say that the end is nigh. I am editing the last draft and will have it ready for submission to publishers in the New Year. As you can probably guess from the book cover mock-up (by yours truly) and the working title, it is a novel about a killer. Actually about a family of killers to be exact, told through the journals of a budding serial killer whose twin brother is also afflicted with the same unfortunate disposition. I guess you could place this novel under the genre banner of 'Serial Killer Fiction,' or crime fiction. I realise that this field is littered with cliched monsters all trying to replicate the success of Harris's Hannibal Lecter trilogy +, hopefully I might have succeeded in providing a new twist to the genre - or at least to the smaller sub-genre of 'First-person S...