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John Farris (b. 1936) was born in Jefferson City, Missouri. He began writing at the age of fifteen and has persevered through his adult years which have, inevitably, become numerous. He began his writing career in the late 1950s with a series of young adult books published under the pseudonym “Steve Brackeen.” Described by Stephen King as “America’s premier novelist of terror,” Farris is best known as the author of the 1976 novel The Fury (filmed by Brian De Palma in 1978, starring Kirk Douglas and Amy Irving). He followed it with the belated sequels The Fury and the Terror, The Fury and the Power and Avenging Fury. His more than thirty books also include When Michael Calls (filmed as television movie in 1971), All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes B, (which David J. Schow wrote on in Horror: 100 Best Books), Catacombs, Son of the Endless Night, Wildwood, Nightfall, Fiends, Soon She Will Be Gone, and Phantom Nights. The author of twenty screenplays (including Dear, Dead Delilah, 1972, which he also directed), poetry and a book-length collection of aphorisms, his horror short stories have been collected in Scare Tactics and Elvisland. He is a recipient of the Horror Writers Association Grand Master Award.

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