William Cook

Here is a list of my favorite literary works. The list is not complete and is totally subjective in that the books listed are my personal favorites - the books that I go back to for whatever reason and read again and again. This is NOT a list of books I think have the most literary merit, this IS a list of books I have enjoyed reading the most for whatever reason. My friend and peer, Vincenzo Bilof has done a similar list you may find of interest here , in response to a challenge I made to him. This, of course, being my response to said challenge.  My Favorite Books (to date) - Recommended Reading Fiction (Novels) Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk Big Sur – Jack Kerouac Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad Infinite jest – David Foster Wallace The Killer – Colin Wilson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson The Stranger –...

Very pleased to be in such esteemed company alongside writers  John Paul Allen, William Meikle, Sandy DeLuca and Mark Allan Gunnell. The wonderful Horror Novel Reviews.Com website has just posted reviewer Drake Morgan's top 5 picks for the best recent Horror Novellas and graciously decided to include my ebook 'Devil Inside' on the list. Without further ado, here is the post in its entirety.  ********************************* The Five Best (Recent) Horror Novellas Posted by Matt Molgaard on July 22, 2013 in Featured Articles   Written by: Drake Morgan This list is by no means complete. There are so many fantastic novellas out there that one loses track fast. I don’t hold hard and fast to any literary rules on “novella.” Some of these pieces are short, but they’re published as independent releases. They count in my book. Rather than do a “best of” and try to search through decades of great work,  I’m passing along the fi...

As a self-confessed Jack Ketchum fan, I like reading interviews about what makes him tick as a writer and as a person. For those of you out there who like Jack Ketchum and his work, I figure you would probably enjoy them as well. Jack Bantry from the fabulous Splatterpunk zine , gave me permission to post this recent interview he did with Jack so without further ado here it is, plus all the available online links I could find to good text/audio/video interviews with the man himself. Enjoy. Jack Ketchum interview by Jack Bantry from Splatterpunk Zine   The following is an interview I did with Jack Ketchum for the first issue of SPLATTERPUNK . How did you come about collaborating with Lucky McKee on THE WOMAN? Who approached who with the initial idea? Was it always going to be a film as well as a novel? Did the novel come before the script? Andrew Van den Houten, who produced and directed my script for OFFSPRING, made an executive decisi...

News, views and reviews. First of all, apologies for the lack of posts lately. I have been extremely busy with my other projects and have been neglecting poor old poetry a bit! You can see what I've been up to at my main website http://williamcookwriter.com. I will be migrating this site to the main one above shortly but will leave a forwarding address so to speak. I recently received the best critique of my poetry that I have ever received. Please check it out below and make sure to visit Anthony Servante's excellent site about Literary Darkness - always something interesting and well-written to consider there. Enjoy! ************* Click here to purchase. William Cook joins the Modernism School of Poetry. From Wiki: “For the modernists, it was essential to move away from the merely personal towards an intellectual statement that poetry could make about the world.” Thus William combines a writing style of prose and poetry to weave an intelle...