Craig Spector

Author, screenwriter, and musician Craig Spector developed an interest in the macabre at a very early age: he was severely burned in a tragic household accident when he was only ten months old and did drawings of skeletons and severed heads when he was a little boy. Spector graduated cum laude in 1982 with a B.A. in Professional Music from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and went on to attend the Atlanta College of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. He moved to New York City, New York and worked as a street messenger before getting his writing career off the ground. Spector co-wrote the acclaimed horror novels "The Light at the End," "The Cleanup," "The Scream," "Dead Lines," "The Bridge," and "Animals" with former writing partner John Skipp. (The duo also penned the novelization of the 1985 horror picture Fright Night (1985)) Skipp and Spector were two of the key writers involved in the "splatterpunk" horror fiction movement of the 80's. They served as the editors for th