Subject: Consp. Journal.   Part 3.                                   Dec. 
23, 2011.

  This gives an interview with Brad Steiger.

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'Z-mbies, Werewolves, V-mpires, Aliens Oh My... '
By Alexandra H-lzer

In a Supernatural world comes much responsibility like being a
Superhero of a much needed to-be-saved city like Gotham, when
spinning tales and stories of the d-ad, the un-de-d and beyond
taking precedence where validation and explanation are in need.
Let me take you back in my Paranormal time-machine to the early
sixties when author Brad Steiger, was one of the influential
writers of our time for creating stories based off of research
that my father, Dr. Hans Ho-zer had pioneered. Of course simply
not foregoing the plain weirdness factor of getting to the truth
of it and what is divided up to become folklore, myths and/or
creepy tales.

This noted long-time famed spooky veteran author of such said
stories, shares a few intimate moments with me from how he got
started to his latest e-book series where the price is just
right! For around under $- you get sixty gripping and artfully
designed pages depicting the supernatural real to unreal. Grab a
warm bed or chair and blanky, something strong to drink and open
up your mind to Steigerisms envisions beginning circa 1965.

Steiger wrote numerous short stories for such magazines as
Fantastic, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, The Saint,
Exploring the Unknown, and Fate. His first book was Monsters,
Maidens, and Mayhem: A Pictorial History of the Hollywood
Monster Movie, followed by the sequel, Master Movie Monsters,
later that same year. Next was a collection of articles on the
paranormal published as Ghosts, Ghouls, and Other Peculiar
People. He has written more than two thousand articles with
paranormal themes. Many of his fans began reading his work as
youngsters. Steiger left teaching and became a full-time
paranormal researcher and writer. Read why below as it gets
creepier...

The Steiger I-vasion

HOL-ER: What inspired you to write about the Supernatural?

STEIGER: I guess I was born this way.  I grew up in a house
with continuing spectral manifestations; I encountered an
elflike being spying on my parents when I was five; I had a near-
death experience when I was eleven that presented me with an
awesome glimpse of the workings of the mysteries of time and
space.  If only I could remember all that I was shown, but I
recalled enough to set my course as one who would seek to share
the awareness that we humans and our minds are other than
physical things.

AH: As a fellow writer, we write what we know. Is this true of
any of your body of work and if so, which ones?

BS: Of the 170 books that I have authored or co-authored, the
vast majority of them have been in the p-ranormal, m-taphysical,
or UFO areas of research.  Because of my own experiences and my
continuing research, I have always written what I know to be my
area of expertise.  Fortunately, readers have responded to my
sharing for over 50 years now.

AH: Can you describe your most impressionable moment in the
literary field?

BS: When I sold my first articles on the paranormal in 1956 and
in 1966 when I went to New York for the first time and met the
editors and writers with whom I had been corresponding for so
long.

AH: You often times write with your wife, Sherry. How did that
come about?

BS: I have been blessed to have married a woman who is as
bright and creative as she is beautiful.  Sherry had a rich
background of experiences in both the s-iritual and pa-anormal
fields. From our first meeting, I was delighted to discover that
she had researched, written, and lectured about so many of the
same areas that I had and that we shared the same sense of
purpose. She is my muse, as well as my partner.

AH:  A number of reviewers have referred to you as the
"original" Mulder and Scully and suggested that you had well
established your own X-Files long before the television series
began. You were featured in twenty-two episodes of the
television series Could It Be a Miracle?, and together some of
your television appearances and specials include: The Joan
Rivers Show, Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, Hard Copy,
Hollywood Insider, and specials on HBO, USA Network, The
Learning Channel, The History Channel, and Arts and
Entertainment (A&E), among others. Do you think writers of today
get as much attention or has it become to commercialized and
hand-picked as to who gets known for such said work?

BS: Since our earliest childhoods, Sherry and I have been
driven by a sense of mission to share a vision of a greater
reality.  I emphasis "share."  We do not seek to persuade anyone
to accept any of our theories or philosophy.  We only ask that
people keep an open mind to the other worlds of thought and
experiences open to them.  For us, the media simply offered
another opportunity to fulfill another aspect of our mission.
The new eBook series is another new tool that I am using to
reach the contemporary hi-tech generation.

AH: You were a high school and college English teacher. What
was that like?

BS: I taught high school in the golden Fifties.  I loved
getting the kids excited about learning and literature.  David
Drake, the highly successful science fiction author who is on
his way to write as many books as I have, was one of my high
school students.  A few years ago when Sherry and I were
autographing books at the American Booksellers Association, I
had the pleasure of sitting just a few tables away from another
of my high school students who was autographing her book .

AH: You've written many gripping stories in the Supernatural
genre, yet you also wrote 'Real M-racles, D-vine Intervention
and Feats of Incredible Survival.' Can you tell us what inspired
this story as it is very different from your other body of works.

BS: What can be more "supernatural" than men and women pushed
beyond their limits to survive seemingly impossible conditions?
Individuals who have survived falls out of airplanes at high
altitudes; men and women who have survived floods, tornados,
tsunamis, wild animal attacks, and ostensible fatal d-seases.  On
one level, the supernatural is simply the world we all live in
but do not yet fully comprehend.  On another level, it would
appear that benevolent beings from other dimensions of reality
are genuinely concerned about our future as a species.

AH: Have you any interest and/or aspirations for Hollywood so-
to-speak in turning any of your books into teleplays for
television/film or do you feel comfortable to keep writing the
way you have for so long?

BS: I respect screen writing as another form of artistic
expression.  I am pleased to continue to practice the craft of
writing in my own style of communication.

AH: As a child what did you feel to be when you were to grow
up, if indeed you have?

BS: Ha!  Yes, I guess I am what you would identify as someone
who strives to remember the enthusiasm of the child-self that
still exists in my psyche.  The only thing I ever wanted to be
was a writer, sharing the insights and experiences that I hoped
would be of interest to others.

AH: You have begun a new series of short stories in e-book
format 'Real Nightmares' which I had the pleasure of reading.
One's called 'Real Nightmares: True and Truly Scary Unexplained
Phenomena'. This is the new thing is it not, e-books?

BS: For years I have been a steadfast disciple of linear type,
but now I must pay heed to one of my guiding mottos: "In the
beginning was the word, and the word was 'adjust.'"

AH:  In closing, I have to say I love the new Z-mbie book,
'Real Zo-bies, The Living De-d And Creatures Of The Apocalypse'.
Brilliant! You certainly have something for everyone in your
writing library I must say! What's next on the horizon for you
and Sherry?

BS: We are currently working on the Second Edition of our
Consp-racies and Sec-et So-ieties, then I will be engaged in the
Second Edition of my Real Ghosts, Restless Spir-ts, and Haunted
Places.

Steiger's books are printed by Visible Ink Press at
www.visibleinkpress.com
Brad and Sherry Steiger can be found at
www.bradandsherry.com

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Source: The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexandra-holzer/brad-steiger-
interview_b_1077990.html

- BOOK REVIEW DEPARTMENT -

Author Steve Pearse Presents A New Theory Of The Aliens' Point
Of Origin
By Sean Ca-teel

In a new book called "Set Your Phaser To Stun," lay scientist
Steve P-arse challenges what he calls the "sa-red cow" of the
star map first drawn by abductee Betty Hill in the early 1960s.
When that same map was later verified by amateur astronomer
Marjorie Fish, it was heralded by even the mainstream
publication "Astronomy Magazine" as a significant contribution
to the understanding of nearby stars.

But let's go back to the beginning. Betty, along with her
husband Barney, were the unwitting passersby chosen to be
abducted by the usual gray aliens in 1961. Their abduction case
is the first to be thoroughly documented and has stood the test
of time in the 50 years since it first occurred. The Hills
worked through their experience with a Boston psychiatrist named
Benjamin Simon, who specialized in treating victims of shell
shock, what we would today call Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Simon's efforts with the Hills established what would become the
familiar pattern of abduction memories being retrieved sometime
after the actual events through the use of hypnotic regression.

During one of her sessions with Dr. Simon, Betty relived the
moment when she asked the alien leader where he was from. In
what seems like a comic bit of understatement, she says, "I know
you're not from around here."

Part 3.

John Winston.  johnfw@mlode.com