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About the Author

Dan Cziraky

DAN CZIRAKY’s interest in science-fiction and horror began at an early age. He remembers seeing 1931’s Dracula on TV when he was only three years old! He fondly remembers watching original, first-run episodes of STAR TREK, DARK SHADOWS, and KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER. Cziraky has amassed a vast collection of science-fiction, horror, fantasy, and mystery books and videos. He has turned this knowledge into a career as a horror/sci-fi movie expert, writing reviews and articles for Cinefantastique, Imagi-Movies, Toxic Horror, The Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope, HORROR: The Newsmagazine of the Horror & Dark Fantasy Fields, Anime-Fantastique, Castle Rock: The Official Stephen King Newsletter, Visions, Draculina, Dark Muse, SPFX, Horror Biz, and Scream Queens Illustrated. He was associate editor for the first four issues of Femme Fatales magazine, and a creative consultant on A.J. Ryan’s The Electric Witch: Thoughts & Prayers. He was a member of the Joe Bob Briggs Board of Drive-In Experts: Horror Committee, from 1995-97. He was a columnist and critic for both Fandom.com and Cinescape Online. Recently, his short stories “None of Your Business” and “Tim Burton’s Red Reign” were posted at Vampress.net. Today, Cziraky makes his home in the southern Piedmont region of North Carolina, about fifteen miles from Charlotte. He is currently collaborating on a horror/parody novel, Of Skeletons in the Closet, with noted fantasy artist Jon Zuchowski. He also writes action figure reviews and the “Darth Zirock’s Interrogation Droid” column on collecting Star Wars memorabilia and toys for swCollector.com.