Why I died in Bed of Nails by Michael Slade!

Lou_Sytsma

How I ended up being killed and mutilated in Bed of Nails -- a tale recounted in tweets by Special X series author Michael Slade:

In 2001, an invitation to be guest of honor at the World Horror Convention drew me to my 1st genre gathering. One look at the Con and I thought, "What better place to turn cannibal killers loose than the World Horror Convention? Now all I need is a victim." A writer can bestow no greater thanks on a reader than killing him off in a plot. Lovecraft offed Bloch in "Haunter of the Dark."



The Dead Dog Party is the final blow-out at a World Horror Convention. All the leftover booze and food is gathered in a room so the hangers-on can have a last gab-fest before their flights home are called. That's how I found myself sitting beside arguably "the smartest man in the room." Not for nothing is @BevVincent (PhD crystallography) top chronicler of all things Stephen King but he writes fine fiction too.



As GoH, a writer hears nice things. But when Bev said to me, "What I like about Special X is..." He went on to analyze "Mountie Noir" with more insight than I had read in any review, including subconscious stuff that I didn't realize myself (but have since gone on to take full credit for building in from the start <g>). I had found my victim! So what would be an outrageous way to kill Bev Vincent? The 13 Steps to Hell? Ted Bundy's House? Why not both?

http://www.specialx.net/specialxdotnet/e-books-bed-of-nails.html

Lou_Sytsma

Wickedly sweet story.

BevVincent

The funny follow-up to it is that he couldn't decide where to kill me in the book, so he wrote several murder passages. His daughter, who is his co-author and editor, read the first draft and saw so much mayhem committed against me. "But I thought you LIKED Bev," she said.