Todd S. Gallows
Self-proclaimed founder of the land of Gallowmere, freak of nature, part-time lunatic, and aspiring author of black humour fiction. Currently unpublished. Desperate to change that status.

Life

Todd S. Gallows has gone out of his way to make sure that his life remains shrouded in mysteries within mysteries, and enigmas embedded in distorted deceptions. Not much can be found on this elusive and reclusive man's existence. It can't even be determined if he's a man at all, or if he exists. He refuses to say much about himself. He makes it a point to not reveal himself, convinced that in some twisted reverse solipsistic way that if he doesn't believe he exists, no one else will believe he exists either.

Only by rummaging his trash, by sifting through his burnt and tampered records from schools, orphanages, and federal offices and from interviewing the limited people he's encountered (and who survived) can certain extrapolations be made.

Early years

Mr. Gallows hails from Ontario, Canada, where he has stated his childhood was both twisted and uneventful. An emotionally bankrupt middle child he counted on his thoughts and imagination to keep himself from being bored stiff. He was indifferent to the ordinary day to day events of people's lives but always had an affinity for the outré. His earliest and most beloved memories are of his oldest brother finding his lost hamster after it had been missing for weeks buried beneath the cushion of a couch, "a furry pancake," as he called it. Other fond memories include watching B-rated horror movies with his senior brother who would rewind scenes over and over again, telling him "This is real life!" This apparently shaped his humour and fixation on the dark and absurd which he believes to be part of his DNA.

In school, Gallows' marks were mixed, from exceptional to abysmal, depending on his interest or lack-there-of in a subject or assignment. According to classmates, he was always "weird" and "creepy" not liking to play team oriented games, always in a corner drawing ugly pictures or writing weird stories, or reading weird books. Teachers laud him as a quiet and well mannered gentleman, and a moral degenerate.

Young Todd moved around to America, Perdition, and back to Canada in his teens. Not much can be found on these years, and how well he fared. He has stated before that life in America and in Perdition solidified his cynicism and completely stunted him emotionally, but also gave him "oodles" to write about.

Writing Life

Mr. Gallows has been writing stories for as long as he can remember. He had been writing stories before he could even spell. However, it was only in his senior year of high school that he began to take it seriously. For an assignment he had to write a story in his selected genre (black humour, respectively). He also caught wind of a first time author's contest. So, to kill two birds with one stone, he wrote a novella roughly over one-hundred pages long for his assignment which would then send to the contest. To make a long story short, he abandoned the idea of submitting the story because he considered the draft to be shit.

From then on, he has been obsessively polishing that turd, getting the little nuts and bits of corn out, and it is actually becoming something respectable. He plans to submit it to publishers. His aspirations are to become the prime connoisseur and purveyor of all things bizarre, absurd, and blackly humourous.

Personal life

Mr. Gallows proclaims his life story as not being a "kiss and tell" and certainly not a thriller. His life is relatively eventless, and when not writing, he is usually reading fiction or non-fiction, taking class at [Miskatonic] University, or working his little part-time job at [Pages Bookstore].

Death

[Pending]