Career
His debut, The Red Church, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award. The anthology was a collection of 13 short stories in which Nicholson merges "the macabre with science fiction and fantasy tales loaded with everything from biting satire to fluffy sentamentalism." In a review in The Dispatch, some of Nicholson"s work constituted "a seeming glorification of metaphor". This collection featured the award-winning short story Vampire Shortstop.
Nicholson wrote stories that were included in Eden Studios"s zombie anthologies edited by James Lowder.
Nicholson"s book was his fifth thriller, and was based around his experiences near his home in North Carolina. In an interview with The Times News, Nicholson noted that his fascination with Appalachian religions and goats influenced him in the writing of the book
In the article, Nicholson was quoted as saying:
"Then these weird things start happening because she was into drugs. Because she"s so weird she doesn"t think anyone will believe her when things start happening with the goats.
.. The situation is pulling them apart instead of drawing them together to deal with lieutenant"
In an interview with The Times News Nicholson described the book as "Deliverance with vampires".