If you came here to learn about me, the person and the author known as Nickolaus Pacione you came to the right place. If here thinking that Encyclopeda Dramatica was saying about me was true, then you are here on the wrong reasons. If you believe all of what Girlvinyl has to say about me then you're an ignorant bastard, besides the point she's a shallow misinformed cunt anyway. (A Libel Whore.) All of Chicago will agree with me on this one -- she doesn't even do her research if she's going to be a journalist. Chicago's version of what they call the stalkeratzi. (Those of you whou want to know what kind of person she is, it will be in An Eye In Shadows.) If you want to know more about the guy who is one of the co-writers and main creator behind the novella, House of Spiders 3, the guilty party behind the Tabloid Purposes Anthology series or Ethereal Gazette Magazine -- then welcome to the site. (No the cover isn't even live yet but I am putting my photography to good use on tha t book too.)
      I've been an editor for a few years and a publisher for just as long, but been a writer and photographer much longer than that -- writing since 1990, and doing photography since 1993. So publishing with lulu.com seems like an option for me because I want to showcase both the writing and photography in one place in print. I've been published online since the age of 20, but been published in print since the summer of 2004. I started out writing Gothic Horror with the influences of H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King and Algernon Blackwood -- then got picked up by the now defunct webzine, The House of Pain and later with Temple of Dagon -- since I write Cthulhu Mythos stories too. Since writing those stories I still write horror but now or days I expanded to writing true stories and semi-autobiographical type stories that have darker slants to them, sometimes writing science fiction too since I am rooted in seeing shows such as The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits.
      While running this site for a decade on May 16, 2007,I've even worked on doing webzines of my own from different locations and ran Gothicvault: Industrial Strength Radio with DJ Pulse in 2000 this was the time when my site became the largest and had voice greetings to it. Hell prior to Writings From The Grave had a launch date, I ran Stephen Jarjoura's Firefly venue, Shadow of Darkness up to the day MSN bought them out. My incarnation of it I was looking for the darkest horror stories that could be published in the venue. I tried to do everything in there to see what I could get away with. All the while I remained old school in the sense of knowing how to do coding and all that good shit, and at the same time my work was getting noticed among the Gothic scene here in Chicago and in 1999, my website got linked up by GothicChicago.com when I came back to Illinois from living in Mason City, Iowa. Living there the only thing that let my parents know that I was okay or showed some sign of sanity was that I updated my site. I am diagnosed with Bipolar Type II, and do see a doctor for it. I do have a mental illness, but at the same time I am trying to beat the stigma by doing a full length book about my high school years living in Glendale Heights, Illinois, and started this site originally on a computer at College of DuPage. Shocking enough for a Devote Christian at the time, I was featured on Demoriam with a short story titled Wrong Side of the Tracks -- and that was in 2000 when it happened, it was a quite a shock to me that I was featured there.
      Despite my website having a Gothic following as far as writing dark and menacing horror fiction,musically that I listen to is heavy metal and the kind of heavy metal I listen to is thrash and speed metal because that is what got me reading horror. I listen to speed and industrial when I edit Tabloid Purposes because I want it to help me get the tone right for how I want the series to look. I either bill myself as a Science Fiction writer or a Horror writer when doing signings at events pending on the event and what book I am promoting. I've written two short story collections, five novellas, and edited several books. I am either hated or respected in the industry -- the editor writers in the small press wants to work with because they know they're going to have fun with the project. I became this kind of author because of all the shit that I was dealt over the years, both by peers and by assholes who were in town.
      So when I see someone stealing my work for their sick games, I will get pissed off and sometimes find out where they are and confront them in person about it. I respect people's copyrighted material, hell I don't even download mp3's from bands on file sharing programs because I know what it is like to be ripped off from. Such as what the bitch said on the page about my books being available for "free" well I used to have a diary-x journal and the book came originally from the pages of that journal. I believe that all authors should get their royalities especially self-published writers because we have to work harder to get it.
      I will go more about my politics later on another subpage of this site but I will say I registered to vote as a Republican and because of my vote, George W. Bush is in there for another term as of 2004. I am not a moron as some people would claim me to be, in fact they like to underestimate me more than anything and that is when I get more shit written and done. I felt that the former guidance councilor didn't really do her job so I saw some inspiration from it in the story I wrote titled, Misguidance. Some of the darker stories I wrote have roots from the high school years -- and this is more true with Collectives In A Forsaken Landcape than anything else I've written -- two stories in there alone have roots there. It is hard to be a straight writer in this genre, but when a person as myself -- a single, heterosexual male doing horror that is darker than the counterparts people speculate. My rage is the driving force for some of the stories I write -- the first person stories will have a lot of this in there, and it will come about in ways that will scare even me sometimes. I've dealt with people giving me shit all my life so that basically conditioned me for the career of writing horror. I knew that the crowds will be hostile the further I get in the genre and my career as a published short story writer. In writing the kind of short stories I delivered and my personality, I am not the first to admit that I am quite outspoken. If I don't like you, I will tell you -- and not afraid to tell someone where to fuck off with authority.