Brian Keene is the author of The Rising, Fear of Gravity, and Terminal. He was the fiction editor at Horrorfind.com and has just been named a co-editor for Cemetery Dance Publications Grave Tales comic. When he got these 20 questions I assumed he was still bald but at his last signing he had grown some hair so the bald questions may be dated. But they are funny. Visit Brian at his website.

He is awaiting the release of the sequal to The Rising entiltled City of the Dead from both Delirum Books as a limited signed edition (which has sold out) and a mass market paperback from Leisure Books. He lives in Pennsylvania where his wife gives him an allowance to buy comics.

**This 20 Questions was originally published back in 2005.  I don't exactly remember the date.  But it was in 2005.  I know that because, well, Brian's baldness goes in waves.  Much like a sine wave, and much like judging distance in the universe by the pulsations of a Cepheid Variable star, you can gauge the passage of time by his fluctuating baldness.

I like horror. I like Dean R. Koontz, Stephen King, Clive Barker, and any number of best selling horror authors (and even Frank Perretti! Damnit!). I like my books to go fast and not let up throughout the entire story. I like that I don't have to really think about the book after I turn that last page. I like that I don't have to think about the characters and the themes and anything else about what the author is trying to say other than those visceral scenes of monster on man, monster on oak tree, oak tree on man rape and liters of blood.

I like Dixie cup horror. I am proud to admit that.