BRAM STOKER AWARD WINNERThere has never been a book like this before....Dark Dreamers: Facing the Masters of Fear is a unique collection of images celebrating over one hundred of the greatest authors, artists and filmmakers in the world! With each and every amazing photograph—coupled with insightful commentary by (or about) each subject—the photographer and the journalist fearlessly illuminate those who work on the dark side of the arts.Among the authors: Stephen Ki...

(Originally published as Night Visions 7)• A jazz musician whose powerful music just might wake the dead.• A sleepy Wisconsin town harbors an evil that has waited generations to exact its revenge.• A young couple struggles for survival amid the ruins of civilization after a devastating biological world war.• A member of the clergy who gives a whole new literal interpretation of the phrase "eat of my flesh".• A demented babysitter is taught a grizzly less...

Edited by Brian Lumley and multiple Bram Stoker Award winner Stanley Wiater, The Brian Lumley Companion is an indispensable guide to the life and works of Brian Lumley. The Companion is illustrated with photographs from the author's private collection and full-color reproductions of Hugo Award–winning artist Bob Eggleton's eye-catching cover art for Lumley's works.Contributors to The Brian Lumley Companion include some of today's most noted experts on hor...

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-fictionTHE DREAMSPINNERS WHO WEAVE NIGHTMARESThey lead us through wondrous doors to the dark side of imagination—exposing our most carefully hidden fantasies … and our deepest fears. Now twenty-six of the world's premier Maestros of the Macabre share their secrets, their goals, their creative terrors … and reveal the voices that called them into a shadowworld of demons and devils.Contains interviews wit...

THE MAESTROS OF CELLULOID TERRORThe lights dim. The giant screen flickers. And suddenly our most gruesome and ghastly nightmares come to blood-chilling life before our eyes. From filmmakers whose macabre images haunt our dreams to actors and make-up artists who conspire to create monsters, twenty-two brilliant purveyors of cinematic dread usher us into their unique world of shadows and terror-sharing with us the secrets of their remarkable craft: the visual art of fear.Feat...

There has never been a book like this before....Dark Dreamers: Facing the Masters of Fear is a unique collection of images celebrating over one hundred of the greatest authors, artists and filmmakers in the world! With each and every amazing photograph—coupled with insightful commentary by (or about) each subject—the photographer and the journalist fearlessly illuminate those who work on the dark side of the arts.Among the authors: Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Clive ...

Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in Non-FictionDark Dreamers on Writing contains quotes from dozens of authors in the horror genre including Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Clive Barker, Dean R. Koontz, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, Jack Ketchum, Richard Matheson, Peter Straub, and many other masters of the genre. The authors discuss their influences, creative visions, how they handle fame and fortune, personal fears, where they get their ideas, and their...

THE MAESTROS OF CELLULOID TERRORThe lights dim. The giant screen flickers. And suddenly our most gruesome and ghastly nightmares come to blood-chilling life before our eyes. From filmmakers whose macabre images haunt our dreams to actors and make-up artists who conspire to create monsters, twenty-two brilliant purveyors of cinematic dread usher us into their unique world of shadows and terror-sharing with us the secrets of their remarkable craft: the visual art of fear.Feat...

THE DREAMSPINNERS WHO WEAVE NIGHTMARESThey lead us through wondrous doors to the dark side of imagination—exposing our most carefully hidden fantasies … and our deepest fears. Now twenty-six of the world's premier Maestros of the Macabre share their secrets, their goals, their creative terrors … and reveal the voices that called them into a shadowworld of demons and devils.Contains interviews with the following:Clive BarkerRobert BlochGary Brandner

Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in Non-FictionDark Dreamers on Writing contains interviews of several prominent authors in the horror genre including Stephen King, Robert McCammon, Clive Barker, Dean R. Koontz, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, Jack Ketchum, Richard Matheson, Peter Straub, and many other masters of the genre. The authors discuss their influences, creative visions, how they handle fame and fortune, personal fears, where they get their ideas,...

"The Stephen King companion to end all Stephen King companions . . . An indispensable insider's guide" to his influences, stories, adaptations, and more ( Publishers Weekly).The Stephen King Universe is a vast expanse of grotesque horror, dark magic, and fearsome wonder. Conjured from on man's imagination, it is an ever-expanding kingdom of twisting, dark pathways—a place where one might easily get lost without guidance.The Complete Stephen King ...