THE BEAST

Release Date: December 10, 2023

Location: Baltimore, MD

Ray Van Horn, Jr. is a veteran journalist and the author of Coming of Rage, released through Raw Earth Ink. His new novel, Revolution Calling, will be released in late 2023, also by Raw Earth Ink.  Ray spent 16 years covering music and film for outlets such as Blabbermouth, AMP, Pit, Dee Snider’s House of Hair, Music Dish, DVD Review, Horror News.net, Fangoria Musick, Metal Maniacs, Noisecreep, Unrestrained, Impose, Caustic Truths, Pitriff and many others.  

Ray contributed essays to Neil Daniels’ music biographies on Iron Maiden and ZZ Top .  Ray’s blog, “The Metal Minute” won Metal Hammer magazine ’s “Best Personal Blog” award.  Ray also wrote NHL game analysis for The Hockey Nut and other sports articles for Kid Shtick.  He was a beat reporter and photographer for The Emmitsburg Dispatch and The Northern News.   He was host of the forum “Comic Books” at ReadWave and the 1999 winner of Quantum Muse’s fiction contest.  Ray wrote serialized superhero fiction for Cyber Age Adventures from 1999 to 2001.  His fiction and essays have appeared at Akashic Books, Atomic Flyswatter, The Rubbertop Review, Story Bytes and New Noise , plus the anthologies Axes of Evil and Axes of Evil II.  Ray was recently interviewed at and a guest contributor for Horror Tree.

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www.roadslessertraveled.com
Twitter: @rvanhornjr
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ray.j.vanhorn