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.

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 was the founder and Chief Creative Officer of the late Stealth Press, 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's novel UNDERGROUND won Le Prix Masterton for best foreign novel of horror for 2008.

Spector divides his time between Richmond, VA and Los Angeles, CA. You can reach him on facebook, reverbnation.com, myspace, twitter, and even in the real world.

"UNDERGROUND is the kind of novel that will remind readers -- or show them for the first time -- why horror became so popular, and why it's a genre that will not go away. Spector uses the supernatural elements here to externalize all the internal ugliness that underlies our ability to edit history into something we can tolerate... Don't think for a moment, however that you're going to get a lecture here. Spector keeps the focus tight and the plot tighter. If horror were to have a hard-boiled subgenre, then UNDERGROUND would be a prime example. But what readers will find is that the gore, while fairly substantial, is not the draw. Spector's rock-and-roll prose, his you-know-them characters, his bullet-to-the-brain plot are what's important. As it happens, storytelling skills, characterization and good prose are what make UNDERGROUND compelling reading."
--Rick Kleffel

"In TO BURY THE DEAD, Craig Spector has achieved a mature, hard-won narrative authority that will be deeply gratifying to all, as well as to the many thousands of readers who have enjoyed his earlier work. The novel moves its protagonist from believable heroism into an equally convincing moral darkness terrible to behold, and it carries us with it every step along the way. This is what horror wants to be when it grows up, a vision of tragic inevitability rooted in character, ruthless and inexorably unfolding, yet shot through with the possibility of grace."
--Peter Straub

"Spector (THE LIGHT AT THE END) is a strong writer who convincingly re-creates the dark, often gruesome world of paramedics and firefighters. Most impressive is his exploration into Paul's character and how ordinary people cope with extraordinary grief and horror. Not for the faint of heart, Spector's latest is for lovers of the best psychological thrillers, along the lines of Ruth Rendell's."
--Publishers Weekly

"Craig Spector's untamed talent continues to soar; sophisticated, scathing, effortlessly complex. His newest novel UNDERGROUND is a formidable trance of poetry and dread. This is the territory of fear taken to unforgivable truth."
--Richard Christian Matheson

"Craig Spector's UNDERGROUND does that rarest of deeds: it scares deliciously. It sounds a dark musical note of danger that resonates long after the book is done. Beautifully written, it takes you through the mirror and by the hand... and I do mean by the hand."
-- Whitley Strieber

"UNDERGROUND is a really satisfying, frightening, and classically structured tale which pleasantly surprised me because so much of today's horror literature isn't scary. Spector's writing is impressive and effective because his characters jump off the page, making you genuinely care about them, and that's the key ingredient to horror. When you find his characters in peril you share every heart-pounding moment with them and experience a truly visceral sense of dread."
--Stan Winston, Academy Award-winning Special Creature Effects Creator (Interview with A Vampire, Predator, The Terminator)

"Craig Spector is a modern master of the supernatural thriller. In UNDERGROUND he takes us, literally and metaphorically, through America's looking-glass to confront the dark heart of its secret history. Exciting, moving, and deeply disturbing, UNDERGROUND is both troubled meditation and non-stop thrill ride. It may be Spector's finest achievement yet."
--Peter Atkins (Morningstar, the HELLRAISER series, WISHMASTER)

"A festering supernatural scourge provides a group of aging Gen X-ers with one last opportunity to revive the idealism of their youth in Spector's horror redux of The Big Chill... Spector writes with the brio and energy of his splatterpunk heyday to yank readers in and keep their attention."
--Publishers Weekly

"Craig Spector waltzes back into the literary scene with another tale in which the innocent are savaged and the guilty are set free from the bonds of restraint, to replace law and order with the flawed and sordid. And fortunately for readers who like violent, actually scary horror novels, Craig Spector is one of those things... Let the prices rise, let the rich rot in splendor while the poor starve on their doorstep. Craig Spector will enflesh the deformities of our spirit with blood-slicked prose. He's always willing to cut to the chase, no matter how gory and violent the path may be. It's good bloody fun."
--The Agony Column Book Reviews and Commentary

"This haunted house thriller grips the audience from the moment that Justin splits from the tour to enter the mirror and never slows down until the final altercation with the evil on the other side... ghost story fans will gladly journey through the portal with the UNDERGROUND."
-- Harriet Klausner