Dr. Rich Logsdon is an English professor teaching in a community college in southern Nevada. Among the classes he has taught for over twenty years is Introduction to the Short Story. Dr. Logsdon, who received his Ph. D. in Eighteenth Century English Literature from the University of Oregon in 1976, claims Poe and Hawthorne as his greatest influences.
Dr. Logsdon is editor-in-chief of the small but presitgious literary magazine Red Rock Review, available only in hard copy. Additionally, he has published extensively on and off the internet. He has written three college text books and one book on coaching youth soccer. Currently, he is working on an anthology of short fiction, to be published by the University of Nevada Press. On-line, his works may be read in San Francisco Salvo, Thunder Sandwich, Writer's Choice, Dynamic Patters, Alchemy, Curiousity's Escape, Duct Tape Press, Nocturne, Bloody Muse, Shallow End, Sinister Element, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and Rosewart, just to name a few. As well, he has plans of publishing a book of ficiton, to be titled Blood Fiction, though House of Pain/Halloween On-line in 2001.
"These stories are apocalyptic, some focusing on a rather dark indivual who has a life-changing, or potentially life-chainging, experience. While many of the characters of this collection respond correctly and intelligently to these experiences promising enlightenment to receptive heart, others characters in this collection do not, only adding to their isolation and despair and occasionally away giving in to the basest of human passions." "The stories, while having everything to do with the spiritual warfare that Paul mentions in his book on Ephesisians, show the seedy, dark, dirty side of the city known to be 'the entertainment capital of the world'. Judgment, redemption, and evil hang like a dark cloud over the always troubled, slightly dysfunctional characters.. Indeed, these stories move beyond the glitz and glitter of the lights and reveal another dimension of Las Vegas."
