Steve Doyle is an award-winning writer whose poem “Footprints in my Garden”, coupled with photography by Maria Touchette, won third prize at a juried art show put on by the Hudson Area Arts Alliance (Now the River’s Edge Arts Alliance).
Some of Steve’s other poems have appeared in The Wayfarer’s Journal, Residential Aliens and Flashes in the Dark. His poem “A Leprechaun’s Tale” appeared in Strange Worlds of Lunacy: The Galaxy’s Silliest Anthology. “Attacking the Iron Horse” appeared in the western anthology A Fistful of Hollars.
Steve’s short story “The Waking of the Dead” is included in Light at the Edge of Darkness an anthology of Biblical Speculative Fiction published by The Writers’ Cafe Press. His short story “The Sapphire of Deadly Dreams” featuring the jeweler/detective Bernard Sutton, created by Max Pemberton in 1893, appears in the anthology Sherlock & Friends Eldritch Investigations available in various formats on Amazon.com
Early on, Steve was influenced by the masterful deduction of Arthur Conan Doyle’s great detective Sherlock Holmes, the excitement of Edgar Allan Poe’s horror, and the plot twists inherent in the tales presented by Alfred Hitchcock and Rod Serling.
With his short stories, Steve strives to blend supernatural elements into modern settings, thereby bringing the unbelievable into the realm of the believable.
One of Steve’s collections of short stories has been described by author Chris Jackson as “Sherlock Holmes meets Anne Rice.” He is currently seeking a publisher for The Casebook of the Paranormal Research Institute
He is a member of “The Herscher Project”, an online group of artists and writers from all over the globe.
Steve lives with his wife, Susan, and dog, Aurora, in Marlborough, Massachusetts, where he is currently working on a novel of historical fiction which follows the Hammatt family from Colonial America at the time of the Revolutionary War to the end of the Civil War.
