Explore the dark worlds of mystery and horror from an award-winning author of psychological thrillers.
Discover My BooksBud Bane is a product of rural southwestern Pennsylvania. He has an unnatural fear of the living and an unnerving intimacy with the unknown.
Growing up among the blue collar working class of the suburbs and boroughs around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bud learned first hand how people faced adversities. It was a time when the region was nearly losing its character through the collapse of the steel industry and manufacturing. That shift had wide reaching tentacles and affected everyone in the area.
Bud remembers a time as a teenager, when he bagged groceries at a local chain store, along side of a former steel worker as well as a former vice-president of a major financial institution. In other words, during this time nobody was safe from the horrors of the shifting economy.
Watching so many face so much, and find ways to reinvent themselves left an indelible impression on Bud, along with a healthy respect for the human spirit.
This is reflected in the tales Bud writes. Regardless the outcome of a tale, as in life we sometimes win and sometimes lose, the stories Bud writes are about the struggle of the character from beginning to end, stripping away the thin veils we all wear to spotlight the nobility of humanity when facing great odds.
First published in 1995, Bud Bane was named one of the best new writers for his introductory tale, Seriatim, of a serial killer who enjoyed taunting law enforcement.