A Werewolf In Cleveland

About the Book

The inner-beast of one’s subconscious mind, according to Sigmund Freud, however hideous and grotesque, needs, necessarily, to be made more transparent to us, or it will direct our lives and we will, wrongly, call it fate. Fear is the pain arising from the anticipation of evil, be it fear of failure or fear of success. Fear is the enemy of us all. A Werewolf In Cleveland is a tour de force exploring a character who from page one is compelled to cope with an unrelenting inner-beast that ultimately escapes into reality to destroy her life and identity. As a horror aficionado, I have been an unwitting student, for decades, of every variety of inner-beast imaginable, from vampires, rampaging lizards and underwater beasts that rip us apart with iron jaws, to aliens from distant worlds that threaten to steal our planet. I dare say that I am an expert on the inner-beast; that metaphor for fear of the unknown. “Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no lies,” from “13 Ghosts,” 1960, directed by the legendary Mr. William Castle.

About the Author

Ernest Porter grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and graduated from Glenville High School. Ernest soon began studies at Columbia University in New York City. Although he did not graduate from Columbia, he earned Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degrees, at Cleveland’s Tri-C Cuyahoga Community College (Metropolitan Campus) where he was designated a National Dean’s List Scholar by then acting Dean Of Students, Dr. Larry Brisker; a designation that ranked Ernest in the top one-half percent of all college students in the United States for his actions to advance the cause of aspiring Tri-C students who wanted to become physicians. He is a proud member of The Organization of Black Screenwriters, based in California, and still resides in Cleveland. He writes Sci-Fi and horror.