The App

Admission of a Vampire: Did you know I can identify every vampire slayer by their individual stake? Like collecting forensic evidence, every stake has a particular style. Each point carries the DNA of its creator. This stake, for example, has considerable provenance, and the creator is clear. Your grandmother carved this, if I'm not mistaken.
The impetus to become a slayer is always strongest in women. I suspect you couldn't help yourself. The call to be a slayer is strong with you. I sense it.
She died well, fighting tooth and nail for hours. Who knew a human that old could put up that kind of a fight? I had to bring an entire building down on top of her to finish her off. Had she been younger she might have won.
Now I get to kill her grandchild. How delicious is that?

My name is Bryan Nowak, the author of the books No Name, The Dramatic Dead, and Riapoke.
I grew up in Steger, Illinois, a South Suburb of Chicago and spent lots of summers in Indiana. Many of my relatives still live in the Midwest and it's a frequent destination for summer vacations.
I was born in the summer of 1973. I had the good fortune of attending Eastview Elementary School. There I learned the value of a good library through our local librarian. Exhausting the library of ghost stories, and tales of monsters, I re-read some of my favorites. One in particular I remember was the tale of the restless spirits of dead pirates. It was supposedly a true story. Years later, after the advent of the internet, I would find out that the story was well known, and the location of the story is presently a bed and breakfast in South Carolina. Reading those stories are what gave me a firm foundation of suspense and the paranormal.
Having moved to Minnesota as a teenager, I soon joined the US Army Reserves and the National Guard. I am a proud veteran of seventeen years. I went to college in Minnesota and met my wife there. Our first son was born in Minnesota. It's safe to say that I will always have a soft spot in my life for the state that I once called home.
It was during my time in the U.S. Army that I was ordered to the state of Virginia, to fill in with an active duty unit who needed some extra help. Returning to that same unit over the next three summers, I learned to really love the state of Virginia. Many years later, my wife and I moved our family here and we still reside in Northern Virginia today.
I generally prefer horror to other genera, but I am not necessarily a purist. I like a good solid mystery to go along with it to keep you turning the pages or flicking the screen of your e-reader. I prefer a story line that doesn't ooze blood, but I want it saturated in tension and dread. I'm a firm believer that if I can entertain you while scaring you a little, I have done my job.
-Your Humble Servant,
Bryan the Writer