Authors A to Z - T M Wright

T M Wright says, 'Without the dead, where would we writers be?' To large extent, that's been the guiding theme of his literary output for the past nearly 30 years – beginning with his first novel, Strange Seed (Everest House, 1978), on half a dozen 'Best of the Genre' lists, and culminating in his recently-released novella, I am the Bird, for PS Publishing (UK), and, earlier this year, his novella, A Spider on my Tongue, for NYX Books (which is also publishing 'The T M Wright Library,' once-every-three-months hardcover releases of 12 of Wright's previously published novels, plus one new 'Ryerson Biergarten, Psychic Detective' novel, by subscription, through many online bookstores, including www.shocklines.com).

During those decades, he's also written such gems as the novel you now hold in your hands, which spawned a whole new approach to the ghost story, both in movies and in literature, a sequel to this novel (The Waiting Room, TOR, 1986), The Eyes of the Carp (Cemetery Dance, 2005), which a reviewer for Fangoria magazine deemed 'The weirdest book I've ever reviewed,' Sleepeasy (Victor Gollancz, 1993, Leisure Books, 2001), The School (TOR Books, 1990): 'This eerie novel maintains a mood as ominous as a low rumble of thunder. Highly recommended,' said Library Journal, and Cold House (Catalyst Press, 2003), about which novelist Jack Ketchum wrote, 'Cold House exemplifies what T M Wright is capable of when he's working at his own singular level of full-tilt boogie – when Wright Gets It Exactly Right, so to speak – when the spell he casts is not just a spell but a goddamn net.'

Wright paints, builds paper houses and music boxes out of old manuscripts, and writes in Honeoye, NY (for the time being). His first (and best) editor and critic is his wife, Roxane White-Wright; both she and T M are owned by a pug named Galway, a Labrador retriever named Myrrdin, and a Jack Russell terrier named Fionn (look at him cross-eyed and he'll tear your knee off).