If you came here looking for deep poetry or for a mysterious story, you came to the right place. "Love Lies Bleeding" is my first collection of poems, and "The Mansion at Valkyrie" is my first book, and I hope you will discover something new about your life by reading them. Besides writing, I enjoy listening to metal and industrial music. I play the electric guitar, and aspire to form a metal band one day. I own a red Fender Stratocaster and a black ESP LTD FB 200 Baritone, with which I "cover" (play by ear) songs from my favorite bands. I am also a pencil artist. I'm still only 18, and am obsessed with God, exercise, vegetarianism, mimes, harlequins, masquerade masks, marionettes, roses, black, dark subjects, horror, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Scissorhands, birds, wolves, and spiders.