<p>Joseph has been a horror fan since the age 12, when his mother bought him a copy of Stephen King's The Dead Zone, so we have her to blame. His first novel, written at the age of 13, was a direct ripoff of this book but he has since found his own voice. He says his greatest moment as a writer was giving his mother nightmares when she read the opening chapters of a novel he wrote at the age of 15.<br/><br/>Joseph's first published story was called As in Life, So in Death and since then his short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies such as Masters of Horror - The Anthology, Dark Things II, Death Be Not Proud, Christmas in Hell, and Dangers Untold, among others.</p>
