{"id":36892,"date":"2024-04-16T17:39:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/?p=36892"},"modified":"2024-04-16T17:39:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T21:39:03","slug":"north-campus-professor-publishes-psychological-thriller-i-disappeared-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/north-campus-professor-publishes-psychological-thriller-i-disappeared-them\/","title":{"rendered":"North Campus Professor Publishes Psychological Thriller, I Disappeared Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1983, <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/professor-inspires-students-with-his-writing\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Preston L. Allen<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had a peculiar encounter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the freshman returned to his dorm at the University of Florida, a stranger struck up a conversation. Then, the man started following him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Allen turned left, the man turned left; if he turned right, the man turned right.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe was hot on my heels,\u201d Allen recalls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the nervous teenager entered his dorm, he was met by his roommate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo who\u2019s your friend?\u201d his roommate asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The man took off, never to be seen again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Years later, when a<\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/picture-gallery\/news\/2022\/10\/31\/danny-rolling-serial-killer-executed-university-florida-students-gainesville\/10652295002\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> serial killer murdered five people in Gainesville<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Allen\u2019s roommate pondered: &#8220;Do you think it\u2019s that weird guy?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three decades later, Allen, now an English and creative writing professor at North Campus, used the ominous encounter as the genesis for his latest book, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Disappeared-Them-Preston-L-Allen\/dp\/1636141617\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I Disappeared Them: A Novel<\/span><\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The psychological thriller, published on April 2, follows Poe, a hardworking family man who was bullied\u00a0 as a child for being overweight and an orphan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now he protects kids from sadistic criminals\u2014by killing them himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I Disappeared Them<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> seeks to answer the question: is a serial killer born or is he made by his surroundings?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am not the anti-hero type. I don\u2019t like them; I never root for them. And yet, I found myself being very sympathetic to this particular character,\u201d said Ellen Milmed, the assistant to the chair of the English Department at North Campus. \u201cReaders are going to see all kinds of people that they know.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allen\u2019s colleague, English professor Matthew Sagorski, who has read two of Allen\u2019s eight novels, believes <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I Disappeared Them<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> adds a unique perspective to the serial killer genre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a dark and twisted book that\u2019s also touching and funny at times,\u201d Sagorski said. \u201cIt\u2019s a page turner.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To start the creative process,\u00a0 Allen harnesses the voices \u201cliving in [his] head.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I Disappeared Them <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">began as a collection of unpublished short stories in the 1980s called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Unmentionables<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Nearly two decades later, Allen revisited them and realized Poe\u2019s character had potential for something deeper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe wanted to come up,\u201d said Allen of the novel\u2019s main character. \u201cHe was ready to play.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 59-year-old professor began writing the novel in 1999 and completed it last December after submitting multiple \u201cfinal\u201d versions to his publisher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor a writer, writing is more difficult than for everybody else,\u2019\u2019 Allen said. \u201cWe are mindful of every word, every sentence, every phrase we use. Most people can just sit down and write\u2014we can\u2019t. For us, writing is way too important for us to ruin it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allen\u2019s 29-year-old son, Quinn, said his dad\u2019s latest work is not for the faint at heart.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen you read the book, there is a gray area of what is good and what is bad. My father writes in a very gray style. It\u2019s not the typical black and white, good guy bad guy,\u201d Quinn said. \u201cHe understands that real people are flawed and I feel like that\u2019s what really comes to life.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I Disappeared Them <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is available on Amazon, BookShop and at Barnes &amp; Noble.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.us19.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4fc6146412415baee32007fd7&amp;id=b5cd3712dc\"> here<\/a><\/span> to subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter, The Hammerhead. For news tips, contact us at mdc.thereporter@gmail.com.<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1983, Preston L. Allen had a peculiar encounter. As the freshman returned to his dorm at the University of Florida, a stranger struck up a conversation. Then, the man started following him.\u00a0 When Allen turned left, the man turned left; if he turned right, the man turned right.\u00a0 \u201cHe was hot on my heels,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13482627,"featured_media":36891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2748],"tags":[3574],"class_list":{"0":"post-36892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-north-campus","9":"tag-psychological-thriller"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Professor Publishes Psychological Thriller, I Disappeared Them<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Professor Preston L. Allen released I Disappeared Them: A Novel. 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