Welcome to Bone Dust where ravenously deranged homesteads breathe, shape shift, and consume the unwitting, vengeful contagions turn on their makers, afflictions of ancient rituals endure, death refuses to step from your door, and a child’s nursery rhyme unfolds time.      
     Embark on a shadowy journey through alternate realities where the macabre, haunting childhood fears, and ghostly entities await in the author’s newest work. Twisted encounters in these unsettling and frightening personal worlds will seem so familiar, so frighteningly possible, so disturbingly real. Follow the shadows in these tales, step through this portal, and you'll find yourself reflected in the whispering silhouettes that follow you in Bone Dust.

     Bone Dust, a homage to Halloween, is a chilling collection of tales filled with horror, suspense, magical realism, and the supernatural world. Psychological twists and frights highlight the unsettling lives of engaging characters that inhabit eerie and sinister worlds. If you seek the unexpected and relish intriguing plots, you will enjoy the ghostly twists to these tales of horror and suspense. Magic, mystery, and the unexpected manifest in the most otherworldly and horrific ways in these accounts that will disturb, fascinate, and haunt you.

    Conversations on La Playa: A Gringo’s Tales of Medellin recounts the author’s travels and adventures as a university student in Colombia, South America. After a stint in Gettysburg College, the author studied in the University of Bolivariana and the University of Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. He traveled extensively through this Andean country, as well as Ecuador and Peru. His adventures during those years can be found in this memoir. Available through iUniverse and Amazon.  https://www.iuniverse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/371170-Conversations-on-La-Playa

     His work, Pilgrims’ Steps: A Search for Spain’s Santiago and An Examination of His Way, explores the life of Saint James and examines the history of this ancient pilgrimage route. The author’s many trips to Spain inspired him to walk the pilgrimage route and investigate the life of Saint James the Greater. After having traveled the route to Santiago de Compostela, he resolved to provide today’s pilgrims with a clearer understanding of who the namesake of the Spanish pilgrimage route might have been. Available through iUniverse and Amazon.  https://www.iuniverse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/399900-Pilgrims-Steps

     Catching Winds North, a collection of Hodum’s poetry, celebrates the seasons and beauty of Long Island, nature’s mysteries, and the joys and conundrums of life. The author’s paternal grandfather, John Cross, known to draw tales in the air with his many limericks and stories, valued the lyrical and recognized the magic of turning a phrase. The author credits him as well as Jose Asunción Silva and Pablo Neruda, and his many years of teaching Spanish and Latin American literature for his love of poetry. Available through iUniverse and Amazon.  https://www.iuniverse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/758005-Catching-Winds-North

     The author lives near the bluffs, beaches, and farmlands of his youth and paddles the waters of the Long Island Sound.