When I was in high school back in the 1970s, I weaned on Dracula and Dark Shadows, and have always enjoyed a good horror or science fiction flick. I did not begin writing until 1990, when a college professor encouraged me to try writing to process my grief over my mother’s death. A Stephen King fan, I began with horror fiction.
My first novel, Twilight Healer, has gone through three printings. After that, I collaborated with Tom Johnson on a three year project a short story collection, Blood Moons and Nightscapes. We also collaborated on Alien Worlds and Starship Invasions. Hopefully, my zombie-revenant anthology City of Brotherly Death will come this May.
I’ve worked full time as a respiratory therapist over twenty-five years. In Alien Worlds, Dark Side and my other tales, I bring my medical background to the printed page, blending it with supernatural horror. Happily, the hospital where I’ve worked treats patients much better than the ones featured in my stories. That goes for most of the nursing homes too. Sad to say, some of the abuses described have happened, although I’ve taken artistic license to conceal identities.
In 2008, I began publishing books through the Night to Dawn imprint. Novels by Tom Johnson, Neil Benson, Rod Marsden, and a few others have gone to print through the NTD imprint, and most of them enjoyed four-star reviews. I’ve been pretty active in the authors’ online and in-person communities such as Horror Writers Association, www.facebook.com, WorldFictionWriters, and others.
I live in Pennsylvania. When I’m not working on my projects, I’m collecting Mylar balloons or enjoying a great fright flick.
Starship Invasions costs $16.50 plus $3.59 standard shipping. Copies are also available through Amazon, Kindle, and Nook
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Barbara Custer and Tom Johnson bring their respective experiences to the printed page, blending it into tales of intergalactic adventure.
Johnson introduces us to Eddy Edwards, a UFO hunter searching for alien life. In the process he meets Stuanofu, the pilot of a flying saucer! Plus, return to the 1940s, when three young men discover that dinosaurs have found an opening to the world above. Can they be returned to Earth’s hidden pocket?
Custer’s characters live in a world where a person must have a job and health insurance; otherwise they forfeit the right to medical treatment. All of them struggle with painful pasts as they compete in cutthroat work environments. They must seek help from aliens when an exploding star threatens to incinerate the earth. These aliens challenge their world views, and the lessons come hard when they learn that sometimes humans make the worst enemies.
Alien Worlds cost $16.50 plus $8.99 shipping. Copies are available through Amazon, Kindle, Nook, and Barnes & Noble.
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Barbara Custer and Tom Johnson team up to explore the possibilities of intergalactic adventure. The action and suspense in these stories will keep you turning the pages. Does intelligent life exist on other worlds? Some people believe that God didn’t create the vast universe just for humans. Are they gentle friendly beings, or are they monsters that prey on weaker species.
Custer explores heroic aliens bent on rescuing the human race, and evil aliens intending to destroy it. Humans will be in the crossfire! Brothers will also be at odds in their desire to save or destroy mankind.
Johnson gives us two views of the galactic frontier, with his Captain Danger, a superman of the future who keeps law and order among the spaceways, and a master thief, who operates as a future Robin Hood of the star systems.
Together, Custer & Johnson present their fantastic tales of SF in the first of several anthologies from NTD.
Dark Side of the Moon will be coming soon with a new publisher!
Roswell wasn’t the only place where aliens landed. The Kryszka build a city under Philadelphia’s sewers where their leader Eigil secretly plots to show humanity the “dark side” of their moon. He will cannibalize them and kill them all.
Harry and his family become the main targets after his father shoots Eigil’s mother. A recovering alcoholic, Harry learns about blood, death, plasma weapons, and stormy relationships during his torturous swim up from the bottom of a bottle. The disappearance of a close friend and his sister sparks a frantic search through the Kryszka compound where the inhabitants could eat him alive or teach him survival skills.
Harry, his family will come to realize what the dark side really means. Available in most e-book formats for $6.00.
Blood Moons and Nightscapes costs $13.76 plus $8.99 shipping. Copies are available through Amazon, Kindle, Nook, and Barnes & Noble.
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Outside, the moon shines with a reddish haze, and howling winds knock out power lines. Trees scrape the side of your house; something’s scratching the closet door…a big something. Gather your flashlights and suit up for the unspeakable, for you will surely find it in the closets of Blood Moons and Nightscapes: —A little gray man who inspires fear, and with good reason. No one he approaches lives longer than a few days… —And the people living underneath the sewers with blood red eyes, who are seeking retribution and exact their revenge in human flesh… —And nurses whose flair for torturing the elderly make Colin Norris seem like Florence Nightingale. —And grim-faced enemy soldiers who kill by twilight, competing with poisonous snakes and other vermin… —And the computers at Memorial Hospital—impressive and reliable equipment until someone starts using them to delete people… You’ll find it all in Blood Moons and Nightscapes.
Twilight Healer costs $15.94 plus $8.99 shipping. Copies are available through Amazon, Kindle, Nook, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.
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Tragedies beset Leslie, a timid, bullied respiratory therapist — her mother’s suicide, a ruined career, her mistake which costs a patient’s life, and numerous bloody killings near the hospital where she works. Alex, her only friend, conceals a secret — he’s a 100-year-old vampire.
Seeking escape, Leslie stumbles into Adria, an alternate universe ruled by fire, vampires, and the underworld god Hades. Alex finds her near death after a brutal beating; he offers her immortality. Immortality gifts Leslie with love and longed-for healing abilities, but she becomes a target for Hades’ wrath. Hades plots the destruction of all vampires; flesh-eating bats serve as his spies. Leslie confronts Hades, begging him to spare her life and Alex’s…and risks frying in a towering inferno.
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