Legend Keeper — Nickolaus Pacione

Legend Keeper is a late 1980s Alt History Gothic story which is metafictional. Where the author's home of Glendale Heights, Illinois, is the main character of the story. This is what happens when someone had denied history - all the horrors upon the world they denied and history had denied them. Nickolaus Pacione as he was then a Boy Scout. His then troop is now known as Three Fires Council (DuPage Area Council in 1988-1989; the story the council is already in place.)
He had did a dark and really frightening re-imagining of his old hometown and mentioned history as he seen it unfold and the horror that referenced it.
Makes references to Richard Matheson when he was in World War II and nods to other Dystopian stories. This is at the root, a Gothic Horror Tale with traits of Dystopian fiction except it is set in the 1980s and makes social commentary of the modern era as future history. This is the dark side of The Information Age, and mentioned his contemporaries only by their hometowns and one by their middle school. As the one had stifled him for years and with his blog he weighed in on the small towns in detail - they knew nothing and are the damned know-it-alls about their competition. In truth they are the fools who claim there is no God. Pacione had revealed that one of them appeared on The House of Pain E-Zine two years before he did with "The Clause" -- but just as Pacione made waves with "The Cabbie Homicide: October 13, 1993."
This one is recommended for fans of Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, George Orwell's 1984, Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, Ray R. Wise's Hunter A, Pacione's Cyber: Terror: Machine and The Girl Who Owned The City ("an author who lived in the next town over from Pacione set the story in neighboring Glen Ellyn, Illinois.") Meant to be written as a short story for a tribute project he was working on like Cyber: Terror: Machine. It also started as a test story then he had elements of Gothic Science Fiction within the pages of this.
Reed saw the Cyberpunk elements creep in as Pacione mentioned the painting that he used to combat Lulu.com. This gave him some serious muscle and brazen traits that became even more brazen when Brian Keene fabricated an e-mail saying Pacione "published" his e-mail address in what the Japanese call a Light Novel (1980s e-mail wasn't there.) The novella has traits of Nostradamus in there as he also references Quatrains where everyone is linked to a particular day. That has yet to happen but took place as he wrote about it in "An Eye In Shadows" -- Pacione with the author of Enlightened By Darkness and a member of A Hill To Die Upon as the think tank. The first time Pacione had used a think tank with his own material -- writing about a generation unborn like Matheson did. Brace yourself for the darkest depths of Pacione's imagination with this one -- as the industry saw him as a monster. Put your head between your legs and kiss your ass farewell.
Pacione darkly taunts, "You want monster motherf***er, you won't like monster when I give you monster." Pacione wrote this in 44 days. The fastest of his longer stories he's written -- it was faster than House of Spiders 3. No Holds Barred novella for a young adult set -- meaning they get to enjoy an adult tinged horror story. He originally came up with the idea for Damon Derleth] to toy with but he thought, "this is too tempting to try this one myself." Pacione toyed around with an idea that was also a device for a show that came out from his 20s -- Early Edition also set in the Chicago area. Pacione aside from writing Cyber: Terror: Machine always went for challenging subject matter. This was too challenging for Lulu.com as Pacione laid into Lulu.com on July