
Name: J.L. Tillinghast
Age: 21
Influences: H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King, August Derleth, Piers Anthony, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Robert Bloch, and various horror movies and media.
About Me: I've been writing on and off again for eight years. I wrote mostly doggerel while in middle school. Crafting short poems and alike. In high school, I joined a band and I like to think that I dabbled as a lyricist creating dark lyrics with a Black/Death Metal theme. It wasn't until I joined a creative writing class that I began a genuine interest in writing. Once I was fully committed and had plenty of muses I began to work on my better poems with more real and mature themes. After graduating high school, I began to create outlines for a grander scheme and I've written Lovecraftian horror fiction to begin my new devotion.