New Taboos (13 page)

Darkness Divided
(Lancaster, PA: Stealth Press, March 2001)

Living Shadows: Stories: New and Pre-Owned
(Rockville, MD: Prime Books, 2007)

In Extremis: The Most Extreme Stories of John Shirley
(Portland: Underland Press, 2011)

Selected Screenplays:

The Crow
- first writer, shares screenplay credit

The Specialist
- movie was based on novel written under a pseudonym

Primal Scream/Twists of Terror
- TV movie for the Showtime Channel

Mysterium
- TV movie for Fox Channel based on the novel by Robert Charles Wilson

Hunter Prime
- based on novels by Robert Sheckley (sold to Pressman/Jeff Most productions)

J
OHN
S
HIRLEY IS AN
author, screenwriter, and songwriter. The author of more than thirty science fiction, horror, urban fantasy, and dark crime novels, he has garnered praise from many directions including the
New York Times Book Review,
Clive Barker, Peter Straub, William Gibson, the
Washington Post,
and
Publishers Weekly.

He won the Bram Stoker Award for his story collection
Black Butterflies.
He was co-screenwriter of
The Crow
and has written for television shows such as
Deep Space Nine.
He has written one nonfiction book,
Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas
(Penguin Tarcher). His cyberpunk trilogy,
A Song Called Youth,
is known for its sharp geopolitical predictions and progressive point of view. His newest novel
Everything Is Broken,
is a near-future crime novel showing how “Tea Party” thinking could lead to social disaster.

Shirley has cowritten eighteen songs for the Blue Öyster Cult and his own bands. Black October Records has
recently brought out a double CD,
Broken Mirror Glass,
a selection of his recordings from 1978 to 2012.

He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife.

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