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Hi. My name is Del Stone Jr. and if that means nothing to you, which it probably doesn't, let me bring you up to speed. I write "dark fiction," the politically correct term for horror, science fiction and slipstream fiction. Does that make me a geek? Not in the least. I won't be playing poker with Will Wheaton next weekend, but I WILL be trying to think of new ways to scare the living hell out of you with my poetry, short stories, novellas, novels, comic book scripts and movie scripts! So ... what have I done? Well, I began selling my work professionally in the late 1980s, although my writing career didn't take off until 1993, when I sold a script to Marvel/Epic's "Hellraiser" series, based on the Clive Barker stories and movies, and a short story to the premiere SF anthology "Full Spectrum." Since then I've published short stories in numerous anthologies, like "The Year's Best Horror Stories XXIII," edited by Karl Edward Wagner, from DAW; "100 Wicked Little Witch Stories" from Barnes & Noble; "More Phobias" from Pocket Books; "Blood Muse" from Donald I. Fine Books; "100 Astounding Little Alien Stories" from Barnes & Noble; "365 Scary Stories" from Barnes & Noble; "Robert Bloch's Psychos" from Pocket Books; "Sex Macabre" from RhinocEros; the Avon Books anthology "Treachery and Treason"; and the acclaimed SF anthology "Live Without a Net" from Penguin Putnam. My novel "Dead Heat" was published by Mojo. In comics I not only scripted the "Hellraiser" story but wrote a story for the Dark Horse anthology "Andrew Vacchs' Underground," scripted a story for Penthouse Comix, wrote a graphic novel for Caliber and a serial story for their "Thumbscrew" magazine and helped script a graphic novel, "Rail," for Image. My novel "Dead Heat" won the International Horror Guild Award for best first novel and was a finalist for the Bram Stoker award, and my short fiction has appeared in anthologies that have won the World Fantasy Award and the Stoker. I even published a recipe in the Anne McAffrey cookbook "Serve It Up." My novella, "Black Tide" is out now from Telos and has been optioned for a movie! So there you have it - that's me, in a nutshell ... a looong nutshell. Sorry for the inconvenience; I get carried away. I hope you'll stick around for updates of more exciting projects under way. And let me assure you: The future is dark!One last note: This page is restricted to the topic of my writing. If you'd like to join me at my personal MySpace page, browse www.myspace.com/delinatorMy mantra is: "Better to write for yourself and have no readers than to write for the readers and have no self."FAVORITE SITES
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