New York native Anthony Beal enjoys writing, wines, and cooking spicy food. His fiction and poetry have been appearing in print and online publications since 2001. His publishing credits include frequent contributions to The EroticWoman.com as well as to all three volumes of the Dark Dreams horror anthology series edited by award-winning horror novelist Brandon Massey, and to the Chocolate Flava 2: Succulent anthology edited by New York Times best-selling author Zane. He has authored four e-books of erotic shorts, respectively titled Naked Aggression: 2 Tales of Angry Sex, School Lays: 3 Tales of Teacher-Pupil Erotica, At Your Fingertips: 2 Tales of Masturbation Erotica, and Their Flesh So Weak: 3 Erotic Tales of Cheating. These are available now at BarnesandNoble.com, Smashwords.com, Sony eBookstore, and elsewhere.
His other interests include anime, Food Network programming, graphic novels, studying Japanese language and culture, the poetry of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the writings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Olaudah Equiano, Langston Hughes, Henry Miller, and Anais Nin, as well as web authoring, and collecting books and music like they've been outlawed.
His horror writing is influenced by Poppy Z. Brite, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P. Lovecraft, while his erotica writing influences include Miller and Nin, along with Marquez and Dunbar. He also enjoys maintaining his website at www.TheOfficialAnthonyBeal.com where he regularly posts excerpts of his dark erotica.