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Paul Zunckel was born in 1957 in Zimbabwe, then known as Rhodesia. His family moved to South Africa in 1966, where he completed his schooling at Kingsway Senior High School in Amanzimtoti.
He did his two years National service in the South African Defence Force as an Ops Medic, wanting to follow his heart and study medicine, but life got in the way.
Paul was employed in Air Traffic Control for twenty years, and has been involved in Management positions for over twenty-five years. He has a Human Resource Management Diploma, and is an accredited Facilitator.
He started to write full time in August 2014, about something that is close to his heart... Africa. The mysteries, the superstitions, and all the beauty and treachery of the land. He holds his wife responsible for the road he is now traveling, as she was the driving force behind him in his Debut novel, Blood Moon over Africa. Since then, the stories line up to be told.
Paul loves to write as it takes him into another world, and he enjoys the reaction that he receives from readers.
Apart from writing novels, he also plays the guitar and writes his own material, although he is unable to read music. Music forms a big part of his life, and he can lay claim to having cut one CD, although he does say, āIām too old to be an idol.ā
Reviewed by Janelle Fila for Readers' Favorite
I loved the opening lines of Blood Moon Over Africa by Paul Zunckel that said, "nothing is safe when the moon is full." That sums up this story's premise very well. Piet van Zyl, safari owner, finds himself drawn into a world of witchcraft, and face to face with a horror returned from the grave. An unspeakable evil is unleashed with a curse and awaits under the blood moon. In Africa, witchcraft, voodoo, curses, and superstition are so ingrained in society that everyone believes the magical, evil powers of things like the blood moon. The beliefs are so ancient that people can't go against them. And so many mysterious and wicked things happen that people continue to blame it on the evils of the blood moon.
One of the keys to this story is that in order to have hoodoo affect you, you have to believe in its magic. They didn't want outsiders coming in as the magic wouldn't affect them because they didn't believe in the creepy powers that the magic held. But there is something about this setting, about the mystery of Africa and the witchcraft and the chanting that really pulled this story together. I believed that the blood moon was out to get me, and I was worried that it couldn't be stopped. Very creepy, original story that should be read during the day (unless you are very brave).
