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C. Dean Andersson welcomes you, traveler, to the worlds of Dracula, Frankenstein, and the warrior woman Bloodsong!
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Links to pages 2 and 3 of my site are at the bottom of this page.
My new story, "Mama Strangelove's Remedies for Afterlife Disorders or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mother Death," appears in issue #52 of The Brutarian magazine, along with an illustration I drew of Mama as a raging Gorgon Goddess and an interview with me conducted by Michael McCarty. "Mama Strangelove's Remedies..." explores a new manifestation of the Death Wagon introduced in my 2007 Stoker Award Finalist story, "The Death Wagon Rolls On By." Several Horror Writers Association members have recommended "Mama..." for a 2008 Bram Stoker Award.
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HWA members who wish to read "Mama..." for Stoker consideration should contact me at my email address below. Anyone interested in ordering the "Mama..." issue of The Brutarian from the publisher can email me at the same email address for information. Please put "HWA" and/or "Mama" in the subject line when emailing me about the issue. Click on the link at the bottom of this page to read a different interview with me. See page 2 for new information about my short story in The Many Faces of Van Helsing anthology.
I write horror novels such as I AM DRACULA and RAW PAIN MAX (see pages 2 and 3), Viking Heroic Fantasy (my Bloodsong Saga on this page), and a variety of short stories. The artists who created the cover paintings for my books deserve acknowledgement and praise.
The strong, heroic images of my Viking warrior woman Bloodsong created by fantasy art legend BORIS VALLEJO were later used in his calendars and trading card sets. Prints are also available from www.imaginistix.com (his official website).
ILIA VORONIN painted the covers for Bloodsong's Russian hardback editions (Alpha-Kniga, 2002). The Russian editions also feature excellent endpaper and frontispiece art for each book by KONSTANTIN PRAVITSKIY.
The Bloodsong Saga takes place in Old Scandinavia, home to the Gods and Goddesses known to the Vikings, such as Odin (All-Father, Sky Father, God of Runes, Magic, Poetry, and Victory, whose Valhalla is the home of slain heroes), Thor (God of Thunder, Friend of Humans, Defender of His Mother and ours, Mother Earth), Skadi (Jotun Huntress-Goddess from whom Scandinavia took its name), Freyja (Vanir Goddess of Love and War who leads Odin's Valkyries and claims half the slain heroes), and the Death Goddess Hel (half alive and beautiful, half dead and decaying, Who has power over the Dead in Helheim). Hail Odin and Thor and Freya and Skadi and Hel and all the other Gods and Goddess of the ancient Northland! Bloodsong Lives! Bloodsong and Freedom!
The Mythos and Old Religion of Scandinavia, the Poetic and Prose Eddas and Sagas upon which they are based, the ancestral culture of Northern Europe in general and the Viking Age in particular are subjects that have long drawn my interest because my father, Albert Andersson, was born in Sweden. He came to America alone as a boy of fifteen, joined relatives waiting in south central Kansas near Windom, soon taught himself to speak English without any trace of an accent, taught me to hunt (shades of Skadi!) with skill as a boy, showed me how on frigid days to see a rabbit hiding in a snowy hedgerow when only its eye was peering out, made friends with every dog he ever met (except for my best friend's dog Cuddles!), could talk to a stranger and find something in common with them within minutes, gave me unconditional love and patient support, strength, and (obviously) inspiration. On his tombstone in the cemetery north of Little River, Kansas, I had carved the following, "Born in Sweden, Rests in Vinland." Hail Albert Ander's Son!
Click on the links below to read my interview, check out Bloodsong on Amazon, and to discover an excellent resource for creativity in general and writers in particular, Way of the Writer.
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