Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #20 November 2015 | Page 22

Interview with Mason Burgess
Mason Burgess (aka Stone Wallace) has worked as a professional writer for over 30 years. He has published
18 books (novels and non-fiction), written numerous articles for North American publications and conducted
celebrity interviews with such legendary performers as Coleen Gray, Lloyd Nolan, Robert Stack and 50s horror director Herbert L. Strock (I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, Blood of Dracula, How to Make a Monster). He
attended Red River College, The National Institute of Broadcasting and Robertson Broadcast Academy.
He has had a lifelong fascination with the paranormal and the macabre, his early interest stimulated by the tales
of Poe, Lovecraft and M.R. James. Later he discovered contemporary masters such as Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson. And then came his discovery of Stephen King and that was when Burgess determined that writing horror fiction was what he wanted to do. After college he wrote his first supernatural novel,
the well-received CHILD OF DEMONS. This book was followed by the national bestseller BLOOD MOON
and later GRAVEYARD. He returned to the horror genre this year with his latest work, which he calls his most
terrifying story yet:
. . . skinned babies

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