J. EARL BURKE, HORROR SCI-FI WRITER

"In pavor, sapientia. In terrorem, veritas."

J. Earl Burke - better known as "Earl" - is a veteran, academician, historian, writer, and artist. A child of "the summer of love", Earl came of age during the time (the 1980's) of some of the greatest horror novels and movies ever. That type of fiction - the horrors of the unknown, the dangers of a hostile cosmos, and the resilience of heroes against such horror and danger - is what motivates Earl's own writing.

Earl is a generally happy guy, but he's also realistic enough to know that the world is not always the happy place that it should be. He writes not to showcase the horrors of this world, but instead to show humanity overcoming these horrors. Not being a fan of "slasher" human serial-killer horror (there's way too much of that horror in the real world; any amount is obviously way too much), Earl writes compelling and empathetic characters fighting against imaginary monsters to make their world a better place, serving as a metaphor for how we can do the same in our world against the real monsters.