About

Although born and raised the son of a preacher, Lee Allen Howard knew since second grade he wanted to be a horror writer. He loved all things creepy and was terrorized by a recurring nightmare in which Dracula, the Wolfman, and the Mummy chased him all around the house. This led to telling stories on the dark side of reality.

Since then, he’s written five novels—The Sixth Seed, Death Perception, The Adamson Family, The Bedwetter: Journal of a Budding Psychopath, Dead Cemetery—and a collection of early short stories, Perpetual Nightmares. His dark fiction spans the genres of horror, LGBTQ horror, dark mystery, supernatural crime, and psychological thrillers.

Howard earned his bachelor’s in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a master’s in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University. He’s been a professional writer in the software industry since 1985 and also edits dark fiction (https://leeallenhoward.com/dark-fiction-editing/).

Howard is the founder and editor at Dark Cloud Press, which has published the horror and dark crime anthologies Thou Shalt Not... and Tales of Blood and Squalor. He resides in western New York with a lot of books.

Visit him online at https://leeallenhoward.com, Lee Allen Howard, author on Facebook, and @LeeAllenHoward on Twitter. Sign up for his private email newsletter at https://bit.ly/3u4nSVH.

Featured Work

The Bedwetter: Journal of a Budding Psychopath

2019

Russell Pisarek is twenty-six years old and still wets the bed. He grew up different from other young men because his vicious mother punished him for wetting by shaving his head. When he confided this to his girlfriend Tina, she betrayed him by advertising his problem to all their high school classmates. He took out his frustration by skinning neighborhood cats.

Now Russell fantasizes about finding the right woman—so he can shave her bald. He struggles to overcome his dark tendencies, but when his sister discovers he’s wetting again, she puts him in dire straits.

During this time of stress, the mythical Piss Fairy appears in his dreams, and Russell is driven to satisfy his twisted desires with an innocent coworker.

When his plans go awry, the Piss Fairy commissions him for a much darker task that graduates him from shaving to scalping—and worse…

Armed with electric hair trimmers and a military fighting knife, Russell accepts his dark commission.

Other Works

  • The Adamson Family

    2017

  • Tales of Blood and Squalor: 14 Stories of Squalid Horror

    2017

  • Tongues Are For You!: How to Release Your Prayer Language

    2017

  • Perpetual Nightmares: The Collected Short Fiction of Lee Allen Howard

    2016

  • How to Tell If Your House Is Haunted: And What to Do If It Is

    2015

  • Response to a Concerned Heterosexual Christian

    2015

  • Lonnie Frisbee, Catalyst for Revival: The New Move of the Holy Spirit, from Hippies to Homosexuals

    2015

  • Death Perception

    2013

  • The Sixth Seed

    2012

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