Craig Spector
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Craig Spector is a bestselling author
and screenwriter
whose eleven books have sold millions of copies and are reprinted in nine languages.
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.
Author
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and screenwriter
Screenwriter
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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.
Anthologies
- Book of the DeadBook of the Dead (anthology)Book of the Dead is an anthology of horror stories first published in 1989, edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector. All the stories in the anthology are united by the same premise seen in the apocalyptic films of George A. Romero, depicting a worldwide outbreak of zombies and various reactions to it...
New York: Bantam, 1989. - Still Dead: Book of the Dead 2Book of the Dead (anthology)Book of the Dead is an anthology of horror stories first published in 1989, edited by John Skipp and Craig Spector. All the stories in the anthology are united by the same premise seen in the apocalyptic films of George A. Romero, depicting a worldwide outbreak of zombies and various reactions to it...
New York: Bantam Falcon, 1992.
Novelizations
- Fright Night New York: Tor, 1985. (with John SkippJohn SkippJohn Skipp is a splatterpunk horror and fantasy author and anthology editor, as well as a songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He collaborated with Craig Spector on the 1989 anthology Book of the Dead, and has also collaborated with Marc Levinthal and Cody Goodfellow...
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Novels
- The Light at the End New York: Bantam, 1986. (with John SkippJohn SkippJohn Skipp is a splatterpunk horror and fantasy author and anthology editor, as well as a songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He collaborated with Craig Spector on the 1989 anthology Book of the Dead, and has also collaborated with Marc Levinthal and Cody Goodfellow...
) - The Cleanup New York: Bantam, 1987. (with John SkippJohn SkippJohn Skipp is a splatterpunk horror and fantasy author and anthology editor, as well as a songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He collaborated with Craig Spector on the 1989 anthology Book of the Dead, and has also collaborated with Marc Levinthal and Cody Goodfellow...
) - The Scream New York: Bantam, 1988. (with John SkippJohn SkippJohn Skipp is a splatterpunk horror and fantasy author and anthology editor, as well as a songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He collaborated with Craig Spector on the 1989 anthology Book of the Dead, and has also collaborated with Marc Levinthal and Cody Goodfellow...
) - Dead Lines New York: Bantam, 1989. (with John SkippJohn SkippJohn Skipp is a splatterpunk horror and fantasy author and anthology editor, as well as a songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He collaborated with Craig Spector on the 1989 anthology Book of the Dead, and has also collaborated with Marc Levinthal and Cody Goodfellow...
) - The Bridge New York: Bantam, 1991. (with John SkippJohn SkippJohn Skipp is a splatterpunk horror and fantasy author and anthology editor, as well as a songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He collaborated with Craig Spector on the 1989 anthology Book of the Dead, and has also collaborated with Marc Levinthal and Cody Goodfellow...
) - Animals New York: Bantam, 1992. (with John SkippJohn SkippJohn Skipp is a splatterpunk horror and fantasy author and anthology editor, as well as a songwriter, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He collaborated with Craig Spector on the 1989 anthology Book of the Dead, and has also collaborated with Marc Levinthal and Cody Goodfellow...
) - To Bury the Dead New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
- Underground New York: Tor, 2005.
Films
- Death Collector (1988) - Actor, "Splatterpunk #2"
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream ChildA Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream ChildA Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child is a 1989 American slasher film and the fifth film in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. It was directed by Stephen Hopkins. The film's general tone is much more gothic and dark than the films before, and used a blue filter lighting technique in most of...
(1989) - Story - NightbreedNightbreedNightbreed is a 1990 American fantasy horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his 1988 novella Cabal. The film features Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby and David Cronenberg. The story centers in a community of mutant outcasts that hides from humanity, known as the...
(1990) - Actor, "Hotel Room Corpse" (uncredited) - Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997) - Teleplay
- AnimalAnimalAnimals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and...
s (2008) - The Nye Incidents (in development)
External links
- http://www.reverbnation.com/craigspector