About Killer-Works
Killer-works.com is a unique online recommendation site for the best dark and disturbing books, films, television, art, artifacts, events, both new and old.
The eternal quest for quality horrifying, disturbing, and dark entertainment has not always been easy. Whether it is books, movies or art, searching solely under the ubiquitous label of "horror" unfortunately does not always reveal the cream of the crop. It has also been the experience of those of us who revel in well crafted gore and disturbing content that we often stumble upon many gems in other walks of life under "general fiction" or "biography" or "action thriller", in the back room of a downtown art gallery, friend's bookshelves, even in unlikely design shops. Killer-works.com is here to help make that search infinitely easier. We will be providing weekly articles on our website and emailed directly to subscribers to point you in the right twisted, blood encrusted direction!
We're based in Canada (Toronto) and the U.S. (Chicago), and our intention is for our scope to be international. We always welcome recommendations, comments, suggestions and questions. Just drop us a line at comments@killer-works.com. And don't miss out, click "FREE newsletter" under "Join Us" to get our warped articles as they happen in your inbox.
Twisted minds of Killer-works.com:
Jill Cooper, Publisher and Founder
Jill has been an avid reader of all things disturbing from the tender age of three in Newfoundland, Canada when she was exposed to Dr. Seuss. Obviously a "gateway" author to more serious books, Jill developed a prepubescent obsession with Agatha Christie and Stephen King. Soon came the late night cramming of Anne Rice and Dean Koontz and surreptitious viewings of "Hellraiser" while in university, and after moving to Toronto scaring her friends with true crime titles like Women who Kill. With the accumulation of a B.Sc. in Computers (that she never uses), and Bachelors and Masters degrees in Architecture, Jill currently makes extra money to pay for her alarming book habit by being a set designer for television.
Drop her a line at jill@killer-works.com and check out her daily jillkill twitterings!
Jude W. Mire, Editor and Contributor
Jude has been daydreaming and writing about monsters since he's been old enough to scrawl with crayons underneath the dining room chairs. He's an author specializing in genre fiction and a strategy game designer (Check out his Killer-card game demo images). His horror fiction has been published in The Book of Dead Things, Flashes in the Dark, and Horrorbound. Jude's horror radio play "The Dust Gods of Dr. Gaul" is one of the 5 finalists for WildClaw Theatre's DEATHSCRIBE 09 competition. Besides being Editor of Killer-works Flash Fiction and regular contributor of Killer recommendation articles, Jude fills his time posing as a zombie and being the current C.E.O. of the Chicago Twilight Tales writers group and reading series.Write Jude at jude@killer-works.com and check out his Fan Page!
Mike Martinez, Assistant Editor
Our NEW assistant editor! Bio blurb coming soon.
Mike's Killer-works home is: mike@killer-works.com
Contributing Killer-article writers:
Jude W Mire: Flesh Eating Fun (Artifacts), Twilight in the Windy City (Events), A Shock to the System (Media), The Colorful Apocalypses of Clive Barker (Artifacts), Rampage in "Cloverfield" (Media), WildClaws Play With God (Events), The Rapture of "Bioshock" (Media), Vagina Dentata...The Movie (Media), "The Jigsaw Man" is a Puzzle Worth Piecing Together (Words), Take a Ride on the "Midnight Meat Train" (Media), The Season of Fear (Events), Repo! The Genetic Opera (Media), Take a Shot at Machine Girl (Media), The Revenants (Events)
Michael Penkas: The Legacy of "Cannibal Holocaust" (Media), A Second Serving of "Dumplings" (Media), Love from War: "Night Porter" (Media), Starting With "Susperia" (Media), Dream "Inferno" (Media), Cry Laughing With "Mother of Tears" (Media), "The Collector": Capturing the Book on Film (Media), Kissed (Media), The Seventh Victim (1943) (Media), Banned "Imprint" (Media)
Miguel Gallego: London Haunt with Springheeled Jack (Events), Carnivale Diablo - Sideshow Renaissance (Events), Zombies Walk On! (Events), Passing Through the Empire of Death (Events), Beware the Playdead Cult (Artifacts), The Paranormal Show - A Victorian Venture into the Unknown (Events)
C.S. E. Cooney: Datlow's Inferno (Words), Red Noses in Chicago (Events), Dreams in the Witch House (Events), SKRIKER: The Horrible World of Faerie (Events)
Brad Witzel: Scott Sigler's "Infected" (Words), Trailblazing Dr. Phibes (Media), Call of Cthulhu Video Game (Media)
Gracie Hagen: Check in to "District 9" (Media), Dead Nazi Snow (Media)
Grant Allen: Tokyo Gore Police (Media)
Rosie Fernandez: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Words)
Joshua Doetsch: "The Nightmare Before Christmas" Tradition (Media)
Lisa MacDonald: Halloween Horror Nights XVIII (Events)
Karen LaRocca: Running Really Wild (Words)
Jill Cooper: penned the rest of the articles on site not listed above!
