Michael Claine

Oork! Originally from Colchester, UK and Lower Hutt/Dunedin, NZ, I’ve been working as a freelancer for 9 years. I write lyrics, novels, novellas, short fiction, TV, theatre, screenplays, games, non-fiction, comics, design manuscripts and documentation and ebooks. post-modernism, minimalism, bleak drama; grim-dark; urban or suburban techno-fantasy with caustic/absurd humour, terminally introverted characters, cerebral drama and transcendental/psychedelic psychology; horror comedy; epic horror; and sci-fi-leaning action drama with the occasional nostalgia homage and often in a fantasy setting. Also troma-influenced quirky gore stories with religiously intellectual hella-deep characters and bleak humour/terminal introversion/comprehensive worlds and invention. Influences include: Stephen King, Spalding Gray, Stephen Chiodo, Lars Von Trier, Larry Clark, Rik Mayall, Greg Egan, Andy Weir, Roald Dahl, Henry Selick, Jim Henson, Julian Schnabel, Jeunet, Ronald Searle, Anna Mantzaris, Eric Chahi/Richard Garfield, Jhonen Vasquez and Bill Gaines, Don Hertzfeldt, Joe Penhall/Park Chan-wook, David Cronenberg, Bruce Timm, Emiko Yamamoto, Christian Alvart, Brendon Small, David Scott Jones, Glen Duncan, Shane Carruth, Hal Hartley, Albert Pyun, John Carl Buechler, Jack Cole, Ken Reid, David Feiss, David Webb Peoples, Israel Horovitz.

I write mostly about what I know, what I'm passionate about, and/or what I'm curious about. for example: sexuality, women, dreams, utopianism, economics and trade, horror, study, magic in ritual or lore, chemistry, how the mind works, how societies form, micro-organisms, how languages form, primitive man, outer space, exotic creatures, deep water, inventions, brains under the influence, toxic relationships, violence and introversion, design, meta theatre, etc...