Michael Boatman
By day, Michael Boatman is also an actor. For six seasons he played ‘Carter’ on the ABC comedy Spin City (for which he was nominated for three NAACP Image Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series) and for seven seasons he played ‘Stanley’ on the HBO series Arli$$ (and received four Image Award nominations).
Other notable television performances include ‘Beckett’, in the Vietnam drama China Beach, and ‘Attorney Dave Seaver’, on NBC’s Law and Order and Law and Order S.V.U.
He appears in the feature films, Woman Thou Art Loosed, The Glass Shield, The Peacemaker, Hamburger Hill and many others and in 2003, he co-starred in the Broadway production of Athol Fugard’s drama, Master Harold…and the boys.
His short stories and novellas appear in Weird Tales (Oct 2007); Lords of Justice (Carnifexpress. 2007); Until Someone Loses An Eye…Tales of Disturbing Humor (Bradford House/Twisted Publishing); Dark Dreams II: Voices From The Other Side, and Dark Dreams III: Whispers in The Night (Kensington Books). He is the author of the short story collection, God Laughs When You Die. (Dybbuk Press Oct. 2007). His horror- comedy film, Evil Woman, is scheduled to begin pre-production in Fall of 2007, (Guardian Entertainment).
Michael Boatman lives in New York with his wife, Myrna, and their four children.
The Revenant Road
Obadiah Grudge is tall, dark, and handsome. He dresses well and has a taste for the finer things, so it’s a good thing that the bad mysteries he writes consistently hit the top of the bestseller lists. The critics hate him; his public loves him. He’s got everything he wants. Then one day he gets a call. His estranged father is dead, and it’s time for the family funeral.
And then things get worse.
While his mother, his father’s partner, and finally his father’s ghost work to convince Obadiah that he’s special, he’s discovering that for himself. He barely escapes death by deranged killers, not all of whom are human.
It seems his father’s death has put his feet on The Revenant Road, and there’s no escape from that.
