Michigan authors team up to write quartet of scary stories | The Metro

, October 29, 2026

Local author and actor Andrew Lark joins The Metro to discuss the book and insight on the horror genre.

The cover of a book called Devil's Quill with a white paperback cover and an image of an inkwell and other ephemera on it.

Devil's Quill: A Quarter of Halloween Stories was co-authored by Andrew Charles Lark and Donald Levin

Zombies and skeletons have taken over people’s front yards with Halloween just days away. While scary movies are no doubt getting a lot of play this week, there are also horror books to get you in the mood.

From classics like Dracula, anything by Stephen King, and of course, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. What makes reading or seeing our fears so appealing?

Andrew Lark is a Michigan author and actor. He teamed up with another Michigan author, Don Levy to write “The Devil’s Quill: A Quartet of Halloween Stories.”

Lark joins The Metro to talk with Alex McLenon about writing in horror genre, popular horror pieces and why people like to be scared.

Hear the full conversation using the media player above.

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Authors

  • Alex McLenon is a Reporter with 101.9 WDET. McLenon is a graduate of Wayne State University, where he studied Media Arts & Production and Broadcast Journalism.

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  • David Leins is the senior producer of WDET’s daily news and culture program, The Metro. He has produced several award-winning podcasts and multimedia series at WDET including Tracked and Traced, Science of Grief and COVID Diaries, which earned a National Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation. He previously led WDET’s StoryMakers program. David has an M.A. in Media Arts and Studies from Wayne State University, and a B.A. in anthropology from Grand Valley State University with a minor in Arabic. David teaches podcasting at Wayne State University and is an alumnus of the Transom Audio Storytelling Workshop.

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