CRAIG SPECTOR is a 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 Bantam Books,Harper Collins, Pocket Books, Arbor House, and others; 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.
Spector was the founder and Chief Creative Officer of Stealth Press (1999-2002), an Internet-enabled publishing company 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 is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston MA and an alumni of the Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta GA, and currently plays in a number of different projects; you can hear more of his music at www.craigspector.com.
Spector's last novel, UNDERGROUND, was published by St. Martins Press in hardcover and by Tor Books in Paperback; the French edition won Le Prix Masterton for Best Translated Novel of Horror for 2008 (Bragelonne). A limited number of autographed copies can be purchased via his website.
Spector's latest feature film, ANIMALS, is slated for a 2009 release, and stars Marc Blucas (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Nicki Aycox (Jeepers Creepers), Eva Amurri, and Naveen Andrews (from ABC's Lost.)
Spector plays in the band SMASH-CUT with fellow writer/musicians Preston Sturges and Richard Christian Matheson. Their first album, FADE IN, is slated for a 2009 release. Spector is also at work on his album, SO LO, slated for a 2009 release from Serendipity Music. The film and television rights to Spector's graphic novel collabration with Whitley Strieber, THE NYE INCIDENTS (Devils Due, 2008) have been acquired by Dark Castle Entertainment and Warner Bros.
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