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he supernatural has always had the allure of forbidden fruit, ever since my mother refused to allow me, as a boy, to watch creature features on late night TV. She caved-in. (Well, not literally!)
Uncaged welcomes Robert Herold
As a child, fresh snow provided me the opportunity to walk out onto neighbor’s lawns halfway and make paw prints with my fingers as far as I could stretch. I would retrace the paw and boot prints, then fetch the neighbor kids and point out that someone turned into a werewolf on their front lawn! (They were skeptical.) I have pursued many interests over the years, but the supernatural always called to me. You could say that I was haunted. Finally, following the siren’s call, I wrote The Eidola Project, based on a germ of an idea I had as a teenager
Eidola means phantoms or apparitions, so it describes the nature of this 19th Century team of ghost hunters who investigate all things that go bump in the night— or worse! Imagine Stephen King, Caleb Carr, and Sherlock Holmes thrown in a blender and whipped up to a bloody froth.
Ultimately, I hope my book gives you the creeps, and I mean that in the best way possible! (Book two involves a werewolf and is titled, Moonlight Becomes You. It will be out later this year and I’m busy writing the third installment of the series. The Eidola Project has won several awards—see my social media links.) BTW: Eidola is pronounced “eye-do-la” and it’s a Greek word for ghosts, phantoms, and apparitions 58 | UncagedBooks.com
Uncaged: Welcome to Uncaged! Can you tell readers more about your novel The Eidola Project?
Uncaged: What inspired you to write in the supernatural and paranormal genres? I’ve always loved these genres. It may have been because they were forbidden fruit as a child when my mom refused to let me watch creature features on latenight TV. I wore her down and she relented. At that point, I couldn’t get enough of the supernatural, reading and watching whatever I could. I even wanted to be a werewolf! (See my bio for more on this.) As an adult, I began novel writing a few years ago and for inspiration harkened back to a short story I wrote for my one of my junior high English classes. The teacher loved it and had me read it to the class. All you teachers out there: Know you are planting seeds that may grow and bear fruit long after your classes!
