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Lee Allen Howard writes dark fiction: horror, LGBTQ+ horror, supernatural crime, dark crime, and psychological thrillers. And technical manuals. All terribly horrifying.
I’ve been a technical writer in the software industry since 1985. (Why do fiction writers pretend like they don’t have day jobs? I like to eat just like everyone else!) I also edit fiction and non-fiction projects. I’ve done book layout and publishing consultancy.
A long time ago I earned a bachelor’s in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. I also earned a master’s in Biblical Studies from CI School of Theology and a master’s in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.
Press and Interviews
- A Point of Pride: Interview with Lee Allen Howard (The Horror Writers Association)
- Horror Writer Makes Childhood Dream Come True (The Los Angeles Tribune)
- Exploring the Strengths of a Creative Mind (VENTS Magazine)
- Introducing Lee Allen Howard, American Author and Entrepreneur (Reader’s Digest, UK)
- Transitioning from Tech Writing to Fiction Writing (The Hype Magazine)
- Mastering the Art of Fiction Writing (Tech Times)
- Dark Fiction: An Interview with Lee Allen Howard (Jamestown, NY, Post-Journal)
- From Books to Business (The Asian Age)
- Author of the Month (June 2021) – Lee Allen Howard (LiteraryRetreat.com)
- Addressing the Thoughts of Concerned Heterosexual Christians (Big News Network)
- Lee Allen Howard on Being a Socially Responsible Writer (Yahoo!life)
- Horror with Sir Sturdy Episode 161 Interview with Lee (YouTube)
- The Bedwetter by Lee Allen Howard (Genre Junkies on Spotify)
- Lee Allen Howard, Author of Death Perception (Cursed Morsels on Spotify)
- Chained featuring Lee Allen Howard (Watch No Evil on Spotify)
Publications
Early poetry and short fiction were published in Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s New Growth Arts Revue.- My first novel, When the Music Stops, was published in 2000 (now out of print).
- I’ve written and published numerous biblical teachings books; check my Lee A. Howard Amazon author page. I write ministry-related material for LGBTQ Pentecostal Christians at https://leeallenhoward.org.
- “The Summer House” appeared in Cemetery Sonata anthology.
- I wrote an article in Pittsburgh’s Out Magazine.
- I played editor-for-hire for Tom Venuto’s The Body Fat Solution and
Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle. - I contributed “Savoir-Faire,” edited, and published the Thou Shalt Not… anthology (Dark Cloud Press).
- “Your Very First Editor,” a non-fiction piece on self-editing, appeared in Many Genres, One Craft.
- The Sixth Seed is available in a variety of formats.
- Severed Relations, a duo of pulp horror shorts, is available for Kindle.
- “Mama Said” is published for Kindle.
- “Stray” is published for Kindle.
- “Poor Old Soul” appeared in the anthology Mirages: Tales from Authors of the Macabre, edited by Trent Zelazny.
- Desperate Spirits, two supernatural crime shorts, is published for Kindle.
- Night Monsters, four short stories, is published for Kindle and Nook.
- Death Perception is available in a variety of formats.
- Perpetual Nightmares, my collected short fiction as of 2016, is available in a variety of formats.
- The Adamson Family, a YA gothic, is available in a variety of formats.
- Tales of Blood and Squalor (Dark Cloud Press) is available in a variety of formats.
- The Bedwetter: Journal of a Budding Psychopath is available in a variety of formats from many sites.
- “The Elixir” is available on Amazon.
- “The Night Creatures” is available on Amazon.
- “Keeping Cool” was published in Books of Horror, vol.3, pt. 2.
- “The Summer House” was published in Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers’ Erie Tales #14: Secrets. I was the only contributor paid professional rates. The issue contains a special congratulations to me.
I’m also the founder, editor, and publisher at Dark Cloud Press (http://www.darkcloudpress.com), publisher of horror, dark crime, and psychological thrillers. (Closed to submissions.)
I live in western New York state. I’m available to edit dark fiction.
