Wesley L Dingler

I grew up in Central Alabama and began writing poetry and short stories at age ten. I am now the author of several poetry compilation, a song and lyric collection, and a collection of short stories. I also composed a poetry compilation under the pseudonym, Louis McKraker. My major poetic and lyrical influences are: James T. Fields, E.E. Cummings, Felicia Hemans, William Cullen Bryant, Caroline LaVelle and Don McLean. My major storytelling influences are: V.C. Andrews, Ray Bradbury, R.L. Stine, H.P. Lovecraft, Philip K. Dick, Tom Wolfe and Stephen King.


Just for the hell of it, I have listed below some of my favorite poems, short-stories and novels.

Poems:
1 A Man Said to the Universe – Stephen Crane
2 When Serpents Bargain for the Right to Squirm – E.E. Cummings
3 The Brain—is wider than the Sky – Emily Dickinson
4 Evolution – Langdon Smith
5 Home Burial – Robert Frost
6 I Will Put Chaos into Fourteen Lines – Edna St. Vincent Millay
7 The Genius of Death – George Croly
8 When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts, He Thinks Like a King – Fiona Apple
9 Then Laugh – Bertha Adams Backus
10 The Winds of Fate – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Short-Stories:
1 The Rocking-Horse Winner – D.H. Lawrence
2 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
3 The Doom that Came to Sarnath – H.P. Lovecraft
4 The Summer People – Shirley Jackson
5 Sometimes They Come Back – Stephen King
6 Only the Dead Know Brooklyn – Thomas Wolfe
7 The Laughing Man – J.D. Salinger
8 Heartburn – Hortense Calisher
9 The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles – Idris Seabright
10 The Book of the Grotesque – Sherwood Anderson

Novels:
1 Something Wicked this Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
2 The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
3 We Have Always Lived in the Castle – Shirley Jackson
4 Needful Things – Stephen King
5 Parlor Games – Robert Marasco
6 No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
7 Animal Farm – George Orwell
8 Prozac Nation – Elizabeth Wurtzel
9 Flowers in the Attic – V.C. Andrews
10 The Time Machine – H.G. Wells