Brett McBean - Tales of Sin and Madness

I grinned back.

Yes, it was good having another movie buff by my side.

It’ll come as no surprise to many people, but I’m a massive film-nerd. So when I was asked to contribute a story to the wonderful website the Horror Drive-In, I knew I wanted to write something that dealt with movies. After all, the site is primarily a place where other movie-buffs get together and chat about everything from Fellini to John Waters (we talk about other things besides movies, such as books and music, but movies — especially those of the horror and exploitation variety — is the main topic of discussion). I soon hit upon the idea of movie obsession; people, like me, who not only love to watch movies, but love to collect movies as well. I knew the folks at the Horror Drive-In would dig a story about movie obsession (as a lot of them are as obsessed about movies and collecting as I am), and so I took the notion of movies as a drug and ran with it.

Brett McBean was born and raised in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. A child of the ’80s, he grew up on a steady diet of He-Man cartoons, Steven Spielberg movies and audio tapes such as Summer Hits ’88. And yet, somehow he managed to turn out normal (well kinda…). He started playing drums at age ten and after high school, studied music at Box Hill College, one of Victoria’s most renowned music schools, where he earned an Advanced Diploma. Shortly after completing the music degree, he turned his attention towards writing, and he now prefers to pound the keyboard rather than the drums.

His books have been published in Australia, the US, and Germany, and he’s been nominated for the Aurealis, Ditmar, and Ned Kelly awards. He is a member of the Australian Horror Writers Association, where he has been a member of the judging panel for the Australian Shadows Award (2008), the AHWA Flash & Short Story competition (2010) and a mentor in their mentor program. He still lives in the wilds of Melbourne with his wife and German shepherd. Visit him on the web at brettmcbean.com.

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Copyright © 2010 Brett McBean

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isbn: 978-0-9870496-4-3

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