Author Guest of Honour
DAVID CASE was born in upstate New York in 1937. Since the early 1960s he has lived in London, as well as spending time
in Greece and Spain. His acclaimed collection The Cell: Three Tales of Horror appeared in 1969, and included
the classic werewolf novella of the title. It was followed by the books Fengriffen: A Chilling Tale, Wolf
Tracks and The Third Grave, the latter appearing from Arkham House in 1981.
More recently, a collection entitled Brotherly Love and Other Tales of Faith and Knowledge was published by Pumpkin Books with dust-jacket artwork by Les Edwards, and a new collection is currently forthcoming from PS Publishing. A regular contributor to the legendary Pan Book of Horror Stories during the 1970s and early '80s, his powerful zombie novella "Pelican Cay" in Dark Terrors 5 was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2001.
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Outside the horror genre, Case has written more than three hundred books under at least seventeen pseudonyms, ranging from porn to Westerns. His first Western, Plumb Drillin', was originally set to be a movie starring the late Steve McQueen. Two of his horror stories, "Fengriffen" and the werewolf thriller "The Hunter", were filmed as —And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973) and Scream of the Wolf (1974), respectively.
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External Links
Fantastic Fiction Bibliography: David Case