L. Andrew Cooper specializes in the provocative, scary, and strange. He owns and serves as publisher and primary editor for fiction imprint Horrific Scribblings, which, among other things, publishes Horrific Scribes, a web archive of dark fiction (and some poetry). His works include novels and novellas The Skinner Effect, Father Is Pleased, The Middle Reaches (a series), Alex’s Escape, Noir Falling, Records of the Hightower Massacre [with Maeva Wunn], Crazy Time, Burning the Middle Ground, and Descending Lines; short story collections Stains of Atrocity, Peritoneum, and Leaping at Thorns; poetry collection The Great Sonnet Plot of Anton Tick; non-fiction Dario Argento and Gothic Realities; co-edited fiction anthologies Reel Dark and Imagination Reimagined; and the co-edited textbook Monsters. He has also written 35 award-winning screenplays. After studying literature and film at Princeton and Harvard, he used his Ph.D. to teach about favorite topics from coast to coast in the United States. He now focuses on writing and lives with his husband and cat in North Hollywood, California.
