Levi is overly nostalgic for 80’s Spielberg movies like Back to the Future, quick to debate the originator of home video game consoles (Ralph Baer or Shigeru Miyamoto?!), and adamant his Dungeons & Dragons group meets every week, no matter what. He also collects old EC comics like Weird Science and The Haunt of Fear, wears black-on-black Converse All-Stars, and cranks Lithium on his way to school every morning.
As a writer who has lived near Bangor, Maine for most of his life, Levi has always existed in the dark shadow of one of the biggest literary names in the world. He couldn’t help but be influenced ever since childhood, but not so much as he’s been influenced by the state itself. While Maine is known for picturesque rocky coastlines, blueberries, lobsters, and excellent craft beer, a dark undercurrent is certainly part of the landscape for those who seek it out.
Creepy forests? Check. Abandoned rail yards? Of course. Not to mention haunted downtowns, desolate lakes, and old, lumpy graveyards, where pale white mushrooms grow with tops the size of dinner plates. Are the “interesting characters” found in his home state merely victims of rampant drug abuse or cruel mental disease? Perhaps. But maybe they’re possessed by demons or infected with spores, which have drifted for millennia from some distant abandoned planet. Levi can’t say for sure, but the guy beating his head off the stop sign by the trailer park gives him pause.
In any case, Levi is compelled to deliver tales which explore the darker explanations of what may just be mundane observations . . . or could be something far more sinister. He writes spooky stories, sci-fi stories, and sometimes creepy sci-fi stories, which pay homage to classic sci-fi conventions and integrate contemporary tropes. But most of all, he likes to share his thoughts about what might be lurking under the surface of a seemingly picturesque rocky coastline, and he wonders—do you think about those things, too?
Haunting Speculative Thoughts 