Author Maxwell Price wrote “The Culvert” which is a selection from Pseudopod the sound of horror as one of their October audio stories.
Maxwell Price is an ex-music journalist living somewhere in the deep south of the United States.
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Paul: tell me a little bit about “The Culvert”?
Maxwell: “The Culvert” is an older story of mine, and I think at the time I was aiming for a dark fairy tale, probably after reading some of Neil Gaimen’s stuff along those lines. The ending, to me, is pure EC comics (GOOD LORD!! *Choke*).
Paul: *laughing* love it! What about you? Who are you or where did you get your start?
Maxwell: I started writing fiction to escape. Or more accurately, I started writing again; when I was a kid I loved short stories, especially pulp horror and fantasy anthologies, and I used to try to write something I imagined would fit in them. I picked up the habit after setting it down for about 10-15 years. Like I said, I think it’s mostly an escape, but it’s maybe also to deal with the parts of life that are hard to escape from.
Paul: What’s happening with your writing, in addition to having me narrate this piece of course?
Maxwell: I’m talking with a publisher right now about putting out a short novel. It takes place in the 1950s and blends the slow-burn type of weird fiction (think Arthur Machen, or maybe TED Klein) with the fever of early rock-and-roll, and the kinds of disreputable characters that played it. I’m immensely proud of it and hope to have details soon.