ALL-N-1 Presents | 05 Stay Spooky 4 Horror Authors and a store owner

And welcome back to the Stay Spooky podcast.

Today, we have a bunch of horror authors.

They're right now at meet and greet and book signing.

So that's what they are doing today.

And we're going to ask them a few questions.

So why don't you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your background.

Sure.

My name is Christopher Micklos, and I am a filmmaker and an author.

I recently started to do the whole filmmaking and writing thing full-time after about a 25-year career in politics and media.

I was involved in electoral politics and advocacy and was a partner in a media consulting firm and about...

I guess it's been about eight or nine years ago.

My partners at my media firm and I decided, you know, we love movies.

We've got all the equipment.

We've been doing media for 20 years.

Let's try and make a movie.

And so we set out to see if we could make our own little indie horror film.

And the result was a ghost story that we shot here in Wisconsin called The Nursery.

We had some luck.

finding a distributor and getting an international distribution.

And so we tried it again a few years later with a movie called The Headmistress, which is another ghost story that we shot here in Wisconsin at an abandoned nunnery here in Wisconsin.

The filmmakers and the cast and the crew all moved in and and lived together for about 12 days in an abandoned nunnery in the wilds of Wisconsin and shot our movie.

Had a blast.

Loved doing it.

But in the middle of post-production, COVID hit, and it just became a lot harder to do this sort of thing for a while.

And so...