About Me

Meet the Undead Rat

Hello and welcome to my website . . . With Intent to Commit Horror.

My name is Greg Fisher but I also answer to the name Undead Rat — every once in a while one of my co-workers will call me Undead Rat or some variant of that name and I’m comfortable answering to it. I am the owner of this website.

By day I’m a librarian assistant in the Heights Libraries serving Cleveland Hts., and University Hts., Ohio. I’ve worked here since 1990. I was a charter member of the Readers’ Advisory Team Services (RATS) in 1993 and I’m still a RAT. It was this group that gave me the alias of Undead Rat because of my love of horror fiction.

My Love of Horror

As a librarian and readers’ advisor, my speciality is horror fiction. When I was in high school I was introduced to Stephen King when my teacher and some students started talking about Salem’s Lot. Intrigued, because I knew that I love horror movies, I purchased a paperback copy of Firestarter. After that I read everything he wrote and from him I went to Peter Straub where Ghost Story became on of the few novels to truly scare me and remains to this day one of my favorite stories. Danse Macabre turned me on to other horror writers like Ramsey Campbell and James Herbert.

Still I was dismayed by the glut of horror paperbacks that seemed to promise chills and delivered nothing much. A few writers I discovered from that period rose out of the morass and made an impression on me like Whitley Strieber, J. N. Williams, Dean R. Koontz and Karl Edward Wagner’s Year’s Best Horror series.

By the time the 1990s rolled around I was reading fantasy and some science fiction but no horror. Participation in the readers’ advisory group and buying paperback books for the branch library where I worked led me to realize that there was a quiet resurgence of horror fiction. The more I looked into it, the more I discovered. There is plenty of horror to read but most of it falls below the radar of the ordinary reader.

That was one of my motivations to start . . . With Intent to Commit Horror — to bring the small press horror to the awareness of the average horror enthusiast like me, who love the genre but saw very little being published.

About the Website

. . . With Intent to Commit Horror is your place to discover the rich world of horror fiction published by small and large presses . . . or to put it another way, I want to help the horror enthusiast find the next good horror book to read.

One of the easiest ways to communicate with me is by using the Contact Me page. I’ve fixed it up so it no longer sends e-mails to a dead e-mail address (my bad) and I’ll do my level best to respond in a timely fashion.

For more information about me, including a list of blogs and social media sites where I have put up stakes, click on this link and visit my more personal blog, So Saith The Undead Rat.

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