Wayne Mallows'
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Wayne in front of his 1965 Cadillac
Hearse
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Bio:
Born in Toronto, Ontario Canada in
1963, I have lived in and around the Toronto area my entire life. I
currently reside in Niagara Falls, Ontario, with my girlfriend and
one son.
I have been writing since I was in high
school, some twenty years ago, and enjoy storytelling, especially
when expressed through the written word, public speaking and
drama.
I was published through most of the
1990's when I had my own column, 'Sonics Workshop', in The Canadian
Motorcycle Guide. The magazine was published once a month and in it
I wrote about the funnier side of motorcycle mechanics. Readers
could contact me through email with their questions and I had quite
a fan base. Some of those readers still contact me now through my
home email. The Canadian Motorcycle Guide can now be accessed on
line at: www.cmgonline.com and my stories are still available in the
archived pages. I have also written four mechanical training courses
for motorcycle repair while I was teaching at Centennial College in
Ontario, Canada, early in 2000 through 2004, all of which are still
currently in use.
Even though I enjoyed my time creating
these educational and non-fiction works I always had a strong desire
to write a fictional story, one that would have elements of historic
reality worked in for realism.
The story Whitechapel Road, or more
accurately, the main character Aremis Eilbeck, was originally a
creation for a theatrical idea.
I had starting
telling the tale of Aremis sometime in 1992 when I needed to create
a believable vampire character for a business called Scream Works, a
haunted house complete with grounds, for Halloween. This was very
successful and I quickly expanded that idea into a web based
business called Scary Man Productions.
It was over the following ten years
that I was able to polish this character into such a believable
creation that I thought I would write a book based on his life and
how he came into being.
I have been working on this project for
the last 3 plus years. In that time I not only wrote the fiction
that I had created, but I had also researched the murders committed
by Jack the Ripper so that I would be able to effectively build the
fiction around the facts. I have spent literally dozens of hours
spanning several months going over police reports, autopsies,
vintage maps, the routes taken by the constables on duty those
nights and have read the over 200 letters alleged to have been
written by the serial killer. There was, and still is, much
controversy over the case and the handling of it, and to be frank, I
found much of the evidence could easily point the finger of guilt
towards a mentally unstable female and not that of a man. It wasn't
a far stretch for me to then have that person be a
vampire.
In addition to writing I have also been
involved in special effects make-up both for theatre and film, my
speciality being that of graphic looking wounds.
I was brought in to consult on a film,
Blood Bank, a short film created for the California Film Festival in
2002. I worked with the writer and producer to create realistic
vampire bites rather than the familiar two holes that has become the
trademark of Hollywood-style vampire bite.
In 2004 I was asked to provide
assistance to a Cedar Fair theme park, Canada's Wonderland, in the
creation of Fear Fest/Halloween Haunt. This quickly turned into an
annual commitment, creating the vampire host that became the famous
attraction at the parks front gate during the month of
October.
I have always had a fondness for
vampires and a love of history, combining the two has allowed me to
tell a story about one of the most famous, and yet unknown, vampires
in history.
Learn more
through live interviews: Wayne's YouTube Channel
