| "Before enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water. After enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water." - This is an old Zen Buddhist saying that Bill quotes every chance he gets |
| "When Bill Ectric wants to make a story weirder, he just adds events from his life - a life which is stranger than anything he invents." - Steve Aylett, author of LINT, The Caterer, and Slaughtermatic |
screaming skulls, historical fiction, drug-induced psychosis, pulp sci-fi/horror tribute |
| "I very much enjoyed reading Tamper, an original mix of Fortean insight into the paranormal and a coming-of-age novel." - Adrian Dover, Creator of The Ladder: A Henry James Website |
| "For a book described by the author as The Hardy Boys meet William S. Burroughs, Tamper is a surprisingly tender book about growing up on the edge of magic." - Eric D. Lehman, Professor of English, University of Bridgeport, author of Bridgeport: Tales From the Park City |
| Tamper is about a young man who grows up in the 1960s obsessed with unexplained mysteries, B- movies, and paranormal research; develops a substance abuse problem in the 1970s, and seeks to mend the broken fragments of his life in the 1980s. Tamper was the word used by pulp fiction writer Richard Shaver, who sparked a controversy among the readers of Amazing Stories Magazine in the 1940s when he claimed that an ancient civilization of underground mutants were tormenting his mind with invisible rays, “tampering” with his brain. Tamper, the novel, begins with Roger and Whit, young fans of unexplained mysteries and self- described “paranormal investigators.” The story follows Roger, Whit, and a small group of friends from childhood to young adulthood; from summer treasure hunts and dark autumn secrets, through Whit’s estrangement and drug-induced psychosis, to the island of Malta, where, according to an actual 1940 National Geographic article, a field trip of children and their teacher disappeared while exploring the underground tunnels of the Hypogeum catacombs and were never seen again. |
| Bill with his toy robot |