John Skipp
| John Skipp | |
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| Born | John Mason Skipp May 20, 1957 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States |
| Pen name | Gina McQueen, Maxwell Hart |
| Occupation | Author, Screenwriter, Editor, Songwriter, Filmmaker |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1982– |
| Genre | Horror fiction, Fantasy, Splatterpunk, Bizarro fiction, Erotica, Porn, Satire, Social criticism, Comedy |
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John 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. He worked as editor-in-chief of both Fungasm Press and Ravenous Shadows.
Skipp has also been a past contributor to liner notes for cult film distributors Grindhouse Releasing/Box Office Spectaculars on the North American Blu-ray/DVD release of An American Hippie in Israel.
Skipp's first published short story was in "The Twilight Zone Magazine" in 1982, called "The Long Ride." He co-authored with Craig Spector his first novel, The Light at the End, which was purchased by Bantam Books in 1984 and published in 1986. It sold over a million copies worldwide. He co-wrote five more original horror novels with Spector over the next six years as well as a novelization of the 1985 cult film Fright Night (based on Tom Holland's script) which managed to be published before their previously sold novel The Light at the End.
Skipp and Spector published their modern post-Romero zombie anthology, Book of the Dead, in 1989 through Bantam. The anthology featured Stephen King (the first printing of his short story "Home Delivery"), Joe R. Lansdale, Ramsey Campbell, Richard Laymon, David J. Schow, Robert R. McCammon, and many other top names in the horror genre.
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