Nickolaus Pacione is the author of seven books and the editor of nine anthologies, then 13 issues of a magazine called The Ethereal Gazette. He's been published across the board for his short stories in Gothic Horror and some of his Science Fiction. The work Pacione done in science fiction he can count on his fingers but the horror stories are numerous within the genres of Gothic Horror and other styles of horror.  
            He will not touch erotic horror with a ten foot pole; nor will he publish that sort of thing either. Credited this to his Christian beliefs, avoids homoerotic content in horror and believes there is no room for that in the horror genre especially in the kind of horror fiction he writes. His influences in horror are H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King  and  been compared to any of them as well at any time.  He proved to hold his own with Lovecraft and Poe. 
           His work had been recently had found its way into the Edgar Allan Poe Museum because of the anthology he edited called Nickolaus Albert Pacione Delivers: A Library of Unknown Horrors which is published in a website he did have  a working relationship with until Legend Keeper was written and emerged -- Pacione tells the story about the lies that went around about the story in the article "Boycotting Truth"(See his pinterest for location change.) Pacione had proved he is more than being self-published as an author but also got published with Tales of the Talisman twice, and with Withersin Magazine. He appears as the closing writer twice on anthologies New Writers of The Purple Page and Darkened Horizons: Issue 3.   His second namesake, his first collection and third book joined the first one in the museum.  He's with three new publishers.   Introducing two of his darkest issues of the magazine, his namesakes, and a chapbook in vein of The Cabbie Homicide.

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Issue Five: http://thebp.net/68266