Well, I was born in the wagon of a traveling show and my mother used to dance for the money they’d throw. My dad? Well, he’d do whatever he could. He’d —
WAIT! That’s a Cher song!
OK, here are three things about my life that I find amusing:
1. I once helped carry the casket of a friend and one of the other pallbearers was the actor who played Newman on Seinfeld.
2. I was in a band in the late 1980s called Safety in Numbers and we appeared on Star Search, which was sort of the predecessor of shows like American Idol and America’s Got Talent. We lost to a band called The Zippers. It was at that moment we knew that Fate hated us.
3. My Mom thought I would become a mortician because, when I was young and already fascinated by horror movies, I’d cry when I watched the Saturday night creature features – but only at the end when the monsters died.
Other than that, I grew up in Texas and live in Connecticut with my very funny and pretty wife Eileen. We are joined by the latest in our succession of excellent rescue dogs, Virgil and Mabel, who were nobly preceded by Puppy Brown, Moosie and Gumbo. I spent 14 years as a rock musician (see Safety in Numbers, above) and have subsequently worked for The Day newspaper as an arts/dining writer and columnist since the Carter Administration.
horror literature.”
New Orleans and the dark side of the supernatural. Rick Koster is an exciting new voice in
the field of supernatural thrillers.”