Award-Winning Horror Writer A Libertarian
Thomas F. Monteleone is a critically-acclaimed, award-winning
horror/suspense/thriller writer. He is author of numerous novels including
"The Blood of the Lamb," which won a 1993 Bram Stoker Award, "Lyrica," "The
Ressurectionist" and "Night of
Broken Souls." He is also publisher of the widely-praised "Borderlands"
horror anthology series, about which writer Harlan Ellison said: "This
series puts every other anthology and its editor to shame. This is what
imaginative fiction should be."
Monteleone also writes a column for Cemetery Dance Magazine, and in that
column often mixes political observations with thoughts on writing horror
fiction. Here are two recent examples:
"Now just because I'm not into the drug scene doesn't mean I'm any less of a
good Libertarian. I think all drugs should be legalized for several reasons:
one, we'll never win the 'war' on drugs and the billions we've pissed away
trying is an embarrassment; two, we should dismantle the phantom economy that
creates millionaire-morons with Lamborghinis and Glocks; and three, it's none
of the government's business if an individual wants to be high..."
"Look at just about any 'program' the government gets involved in and you
could find a private
company (that must account for its actions and expenditures) being able to
do it better. There are
literally thousands of examples of this..."
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