Craig Spector

Craig Spector is a bestselling author and screenwriter whose eleven books have sold millions of copies and are reprinted in nine languages.

Biography

CRAIG SPECTOR is an award-winning and bestselling author, editor, screenwriter, and musician, with eleven books published, millions of copies sold, and reprints in nine languages. His fiction has been published by Tor/St. Martins Press, Bragelonne, Bantam Books, Harper Collins, Pocket Books, Arbor House, and others; his film and television work includes A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5: THE DREAM CHILD and projects for TNC Pictures, Anonymous Content, ABC, NBC, Fox Television, Hearst Entertainment, Davis Entertainment Television, New Line Cinema, Beacon Pictures, and Wonderful World of Disney. His feature film adaptation of ANIMALS was a 2010 release from TNC Pictures and Anonymous Content (distributed by Maverick Entertainment)and stars Marc Blucas, Nicky Aycox, Eva Amurri, and Naveen Andrews. Spector's graphic novel THE NYE INCIDENTS (co-created with Whitley Streiber) was a June 2008 release from Devils Due Publishing and has been optioned by RKO Pictures with Todd Lincoln [The Apparition, Warner Bros.] attached to direct.

Spector is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston MA and an alumnus of the Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta GA, and was the founder and Chief Creative Officer of the late Stealth Press [1999-2002] an Internet-enabled publishing company based on Spector's original business model that specialized in quality hardcover reprints of titles by such authors as Peter Straub, Ray Bradbury, Clive Barker, Peter Atkins, William Nolan, Dennis Etchison, John Shirley, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.

Spector's novel UNDERGROUND [St. Martins Press/Tor Books] won Le Prix Masterton for Best Foreign Novel of Horror for 2008 [fr. edition, Bragelonne Press.] In 2010 Spector released his first solo original music eCD, craig spector: so lo, from Http://www.crossroadpress.com.

He is currently at work on a new novel, a 2nd music CD -- craig spector: raw/war -- and various film, television, and new media projects.

Bibliography

Anthologies

• Book of the Dead New York: Bantam, 1989.
• Still Dead: Book of the Dead 2 New York: Bantam Falcon, 1992.

Novelizations

• Fright Night New York: Tor, 1985. (with John Skipp, based upon the screenplay by Tom Holland)

Novels

• The Light at the End New York: Bantam, 1986. (with John Skipp)
• The Cleanup New York: Bantam, 1987. (with John Skipp)
• The Scream New York: Bantam, 1988. (with John Skipp)
• Dead Lines New York: Bantam, 1989. (with John Skipp)
• The Bridge New York: Bantam, 1991. (with John Skipp)
• Animals New York: Bantam, 1992. (with John Skipp)
• To Bury the Dead New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
• Underground New York: Tor, 2005.

Graphic novels

• The Nye Incidents Devil's Due Publishing, 2008.

Films

• Death Collector (1988) - Actor, "Splatterpunk #2"
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child (1989) - Story
• Nightbreed (1990) - Actor, "Hotel Room Corpse" (uncredited)
• Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997) - Teleplay
• Animals (2008)^[1]
• The Nye Incidents (in development)

References

1. ^ Buchanan, Jason. "Overview: Animals". Allmovie. http://www.allmovie.com/work/animals-513097. Retrieved 30 August 2010. 

External links

• Official website
• Craig Spector on Myspace
• http://www.reverbnation.com/craigspector
• Craig Spector at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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