Horror Spotlight: American Hauntstorian, Allen Sircy (Old Man Dead)

Allen Sircy is an American Hauntstorian and his Southern Ghost Stories, “Ghost Stories & Graveyard Tales” and “Fear and Folklore” are available now on Amazon.

I’ve been writing for various websites since 2005, but my passion for folklore and haunted American history began in 2014. I started creating haunted tour apps for cities like Nashville, New Orleans, and St. Augustine. Over time, I expanded the information in the apps into books. I’ve written nearly 30 books since then. Recently, I’ve been adapting some of the wildest stories from my books into screenplays. During a haunted tour in Gallatin, Tennessee, someone referred to me as a “Hauntstorian.” I adopted that title, tweaked it to “American Hauntstorian,” and had business cards made!

I dabble in a strange gray area. While I don’t really consider myself a horror guy, I deal with some weird stuff like grave robbing and galvansim, which is the study of applying electric current to dead bodies. These two things sound archaic, but they were prevalent and somewhat commonplace in the 19th century. There’s also a lot of true crime and cryptid folklore in my books/screenplays. Murder, sea serpents, Civil War, old Cherokee women with a spear for a finger, I’ve written about a lot of weird and gruesome stuff. One of my favorite screenplays is called, “The Resurrection of Knox Martin” that involves a voo doo priestess and a Frankenstein-like resurrection. In 1869, Half of Nashville, Tennessee was convinced that Knox Martin really had been revived after being executed. It’s nuts!

Currently, I spend most of my time turning stories from my books into scripts. I will put out another book or two next year but I’m knee-deep in scripts right now. I’ve had some meetings with producers about a grave robbing feature called, “Old Man Dead”, about the life of notorious grave robber William Cunningham. I’m really encouraged. Within two or three years, I’m confident “Old Man Dead” or another one of the scripts will get made.

Allen Sircy Books on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Allen-Sircy/author/B0B192C43S

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