Fred Adams, Jr. is a former Penn State University English Instructor and journalist whose first fiction was published in 1971. Since his retirement in 2011, he has written over twenty novels and at least as many short stories and novellas published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain and edited other people’s work.
His supernatural novels include the Hitwolf series, the Six Gun Terrors novels, the C.O. Jones series, and the Dead Sheriff novel Holster Full of Death.
Fred’s mystery novels include the Sam Dunne series, the Ike Mars series, and the fin de siecle San Francisco novel The Eye of Quang Chi. Anthologies include The Adventure of the Chronic Argonaut, a pair of Sherlock Holmes novellas, and The Left Hand of Justice, a collection of stories featuring Old West bounty hunter Deacon Beck.
When he’s not writing, Fred continues to pursue his other lifelong passion, playing the guitar and performing as a singer-songwriter solo and with local bands. The sum of his performing experience is found in his book 20 Frets, No Nets: Advice for the Solo Guitarist.
When asked which is the real Fred, author or musician, he will say, “It all depends on what time of day it is.” He also has recently taken on the role of Cedric the Butler in the horror-host TV show Terror Night Theatre on The Monster Channel and You Tube.
Fred sums himself up simply: “I live in perpetual terror of boredom.”
His website is http:\drphreddee.com