“…and then she lost her mind.”
Far from it.
In response to what looks like a 180 degree about face with my writing:
Popular Substack Writer Antonio Castellaneta
“This doesn’t feel like a sudden turn at all after reading your post. It feels more like you’re finally returning to a part of yourself that was there from the beginning. The phrase “if not now, when” really carries the whole piece.”
I’m a writer and storyteller whose creative DNA has always been steeped in the “uncanny”.
I navigated a complicated relationship with my mother through a shared obsession with re-runs of Dark Shadows (remember that show?), classic vampire, werewolf, mummy, and ghostly lore films and television. Think Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing.
My bond with the ghostly genre continued with my first visit to Walt Disney World. I demanded from my parents to ride THE HAUNTED MANSION over and over again.
That affinity bled onto the stage and screen, leading to meaty acting roles playing iconic figures: the Bride of Frankenstein in Universal Studios’ Beetlejuice Rock Revue, to the opening environmental theatre cast of Jekyll & Hyde in NYC, to a young bride seeking cryogenic preservation for her much older husband so she can go on their honeymoon in the cult mad scientist, southern gothic series Morgus the Magnificent.
NOW I’m writing atmospheric supernatural, Victorian tinged, quiet, psychological fiction and horror stories, some featuring my love of animals as pivotal characters. I’ll continue to have the stories published in book form and also written into short film screenplays.
Quick Peak Into My History:
For decades, my journey took place in studios and on stages as an award-winning performer, writer and producer. I poured myself into the life of an actor, singer, dancer, voice-over artist, stunt person, circus artist, professional water skier, and dancer.
I became a published poet at 14 and continued by writing for television, the stage, as a songwriter, in books, print and online magazines, articles, and much more. I also edited quite a few screenplays for a film and tv production company and screenwriters.
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