From Dead Space to Doctor Who: How Obsidior Came to Life
Hey everybody, so I'm talking about Obsidior, my new book that just came out. I really wanted to focus on this one before getting into Shadow Watcher, which I'll explain more about at a later date. For Obsidior, I really wanted to write a space story. My objective, the image I was seeing, was strongly about the beauty of the vastness of space. As I mentioned in the book's acknowledgments, I drew inspiration from the writers of Doctor Who's "Midnight" episode, and of course Dead Space. I really like that game, not just for its horror genre with the necromorphs and all that, but for the atmosphere of space itself. The suits, the spaceships, all of it really inspired me. That's how I started writing some of my short space stories, and this one grew from that. Obsidior was intended to be less of a straight horror and more of a mystery in a Lovecraftian sense. For those who don't know, I really love how Lovecraft never fully reveals what the real horror i...
