| Author Info | - Thomas Ligotti has been critically praised as one of the most curious and remarkable figures in horror literature since H. P. Lovecraft. The Washington Post called him the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction, while the New York Times coined the expression philosophical horror to describe his work. Steven J. Mariconda wrote in Necrofile: The Review of Horror Fiction, Ligotti is resoundingly successful in convincing us that everywhere behind the common facade of life are other, sinister realms of entity more real than that through which we so blithely move.Ligotti began his writing career in the early 1980s, gaining instant renown among aficionados of horror fiction. Since that time, numerous collections of his work have been published. These include: Songs of a Dead Dreamer (1989), Grimscribe (1991), Noctuary (1994), The Agonising Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein & Other Gothic Tales (1994), The Nightmare Factory (1996) and The Nightmare Factory: Volume 2 (2008), My Work is Not Yet Done (2002), and Teatro Grottesco (2006). Ligotti is a three-time recipient of the Bram Stoker Award as well as an International Horror Guild Award and a British Fantasy Award. Collapse Joe Harris makes movies and writes comics, skewering the horror genre with tales of superheroes and the supernatural.As a screenwriter, Harris made his feature debut in 2003 with the Sony Pictures release Darkness Falls. Conceived and cowritten by Harris, the hit movie was based on Tooth Fairy, a short horror film he wrote and directed, which presented a dark twist on the children's bedtime myth.The Tripper, the politically-themed slasher film Harris cowrote with actor David Arquette, was released by Fox in 2007. Produced by David and Courtney Cox and directed by Arquette, the movie mixed politics and horror into an outrageous tale of murder, mayhem, and the American way.As a comic book writer, Harris has launched new titles for both Marvel's X-Men and Spider-Man franchises, writing what Wizard Magazine has described as great teen angst. Harris has also penned stories featuring iconic characters such as Batman, Hellboy's B.P.R.D., and other big properties from DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and Wildstorm.In 2007 Harris cowrote The Nightmare Factory, a graphic novel published by Fox Atomic Comics and HarperCollins. The book was honored with an International Horror Guild Award for Best Illustrated Narrative. A second volume of the acclaimed horror collection was released in 2008.Beginning in 2009, Oni Press will publish Harris's first original, creator-owned comics: a supernatural thriller series set in the snowy former Soviet Union, Ghost Projekt, and the humorously drug-addled and politically volatile adventure graphic novel, The Hashishian.Harris's short film, Witchwise, played dozens of horror and genre film festivals in 2007. The cautionary tale of mischief and murder twisted themes of childhood curiosity and lost innocence with dark fantasy, supernatural horror and witchcraft. Called a short masterpiece by The Horror Review, his latest directorial effort continues to be programmed worldwide.Harris was interviewed for Bravo's 2006 television special Even Scarier Movie Moments and was featured in Creative Screenwriting magazine's cover story, "The New Face of Horror."Though he feels like he's in Los Angeles all the time, Harris actually resides in New York City, where he was born and raised.Stuart Moore has been a writer, a book editor, and an award-winning comics editor. His recent writing includes the original science-fiction series PARA (Penny-Farthing Press) and Earthlight (Tokyopop); Wolverine Noir, New Avengers/Transformers, and Iron Man (Marvel); Stargate Atlantis (Avatar); Firestorm and Detective Comics (DC Comics); the multicultural superhero team The 99 (Teshkeel); Star Trek Alien Spotlight: Tribbles and Transformers Spotlight: Ramjet (IDW); the comics adaptation of the bestselling novel Redwall (Philomel/Penguin); two volumes of the award-winning The Nightmare Factory (HarperCollins/Fox Atomic); Lone and The Escapist (Dark Horse); and the prose novels American Meat and Reality Bites (Games Workshop). Upcoming projects include more Wolverine and Iron Man stories, as well as the original science-fiction/conspiracy drama Shadrach Stone (Penny-Farthing Press.)Moore has also served as editor of the Virgin Comics/SciFi Channel comics line and of the bestselling Marvel Knights imprint. At DC Comics, Moore was a founding editor of the acclaimed Vertigo imprint, where he won the Will Eisner award for Best Editor in 1996 and the Don Thompson Award for Favorite Editor in 1999. Moore lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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