Autumn in the Abyss

When enigmatic poet Henry Coronado disappears six months after the New Year’s Eve, 1959, Welcoming Chaos event, he takes with him a profound secret wrapped within the words of his poem, Autumn In The Abyss. Fifty years later, an ill man’s research into Coronado’s work and life reveals that poetry can indeed change the world, or leave it in ruins. The Word is a living thing…and often with lethal intentions.Reality is the strangest mirror...

About the Author

John Claude Smith originally wanted to be a horror writer; now he s not sure what it is he writes, he just knows it is dark, and he's the one holding a flashlight, shining light on those places most people would want to avoid, scribbling notes. He has written fiction, poetry and bad lyrics for as long as he can remember. At a point when he decided to get serious with fiction, sending out stories and getting a few acceptances in the early 1990s, he was side-tracked for many years by music journalism (as JC Smith), including stints as the industrial, experimental, gothic, metal, and all fringe categories reviewer for a variety of magazines including Outburn, Industrial Nation, Side-Line, and Alternative Press. He believes the over 1,100 reviews, articles, profiles, etc., he wrote helped hone his skills for the fiction gig. Finally back on the fiction path, he s had over 60 short stories and 15 poems published, as well as a debut collection of not your average horror, The Dark Is Light Enough For Me. He is presently writing his third novel, while shopping around the other two. Busy is good. He splits his time between the East Bay of northern California, across from San Francisco, and Rome, Italy, where his heart resides always.

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