Carson Peal

Halloween, 1974: Four teenagers desecrate a West Virginia graveyard... Disinterring and stealing from the bodies of two mining moguls, a jazz singer and an infant... What follows are a lifetime of brutal consequences... Can we ever escape the choices we make when we are young?

As a kid I watched movies like Alien, Independence Day, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and the series V. A familiar episode of the Twilight Zone comes to mind where the aliens have a book called “How to Serve Man…” which turned out to be a cookbook....

The Bachmeyer family struggles to move forward following loss, and while operating a funeral home. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the story documents the erratic nature of life and death, as it relates to us all....

While the dust settles, a quiet horror unfolds. Abbreviated lives consumed by fire remain. A terrific tale of heartbreak, betrayal, love, violence, and those imprisoned by circumstance and time. A tragedy told in reverse....

After the publishing my 6th book, I move to New England to seek my next project... What I find is the century and a half old obsession of a the long-deceased spirit of a physician who performs vampire autopsies in the basement of my farmhouse....

June 1, 1919: Julius Alfonso is brutally murdered. Soon after his family opens a bar nearby. As Prohibition begins, what follows is a shocking tale of debauchery and wasted lives...