Rick Hautala

Rick Hautala
Born Richard Andrew Hautala
February 3, 1949 (1949-02-03) (age 63)
Rockport, Massachusetts
Pen name A. J. Matthews
Occupation Writer, screenwriter
Nationality American
Period 1980 -
Genres Horror fiction, speculative fiction
www.rickhautala.com

Rick Hautala is best known as a speculative fiction and horror writer. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1974 where he received a Master of Art in English Literature.[1] Rick arrived on the horror scene in 1980 with many of his early novels published by Zebra books.[2] He has written and published over 90 novels and short stories since the early 1980s. Many of his books have been translated to other languages and sold internationally. Cold Whisper, published in October, 1991 by Zebra Books, Inc. was also published in Finnish as Haamu by Werner Soderstrom Oy, Helsinki, Finland, in August, 1994.[3] Recently he has published many of his works with specialty press and small press publishers like Cemetery Dance Publications and Dark Harvest. His novel The Wildman (2008), was chosen to be Full Moon Press' debut limited edition title.

Rick Hautala's third novel, 1986's Night Stone[1], was one of the first books to feature a holographic cover and it became an international best-seller, selling well over one million copies.[4] "Knocking" was a part of the Bram Stoker Award winning anthology 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense ("Best Anthology of 1999"). His short story collection, Bedbugs (1999) was selected by Barnes & Noble as one of the most distinguished horror publications of the year 2000.

Rick Hautala also writes screenplays. His most recent 2008 adaptation of award winning author Kealan Patrick Burke's "Peekers" is currently on the film festival circuit. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2007 short film Dead@17 based on Josh Howard's graphic novel series of the same name, and The Ugly File, directed by Mark Steensland, based on the short story by Ed Gorman.

Contents

Selected bibliography

Novels and novellas

Chapbooks

Body of Evidence series

All books in the Body of Evidence series are co-authroed with Christopher Golden

  1. Skin Deep (Pocket Books, 2000)
  2. Burning Bones (Pocket, 2001) ISBN 0-671-77584-7
  3. Brain Trust (Pocket, 2001)
  4. Last Breath (Pocket, 2004)
  5. Throat Culture (Pocket, 2005)

As A. J. Matthews

Books published under the pseudonym A. J. Matthews:

Screenplays

Collections

  • Also released as Untcigahunk: The Complete Little Brothers in e-book format from Ghostwriter Publications in 2010.
  • Also released in e-book format from Ghostwriter Publications in 2010.

Anthology appearances

Links and references

  1. ^ Rick's Biography
  2. ^ http://www.neconebooks.com/winterwake.htm
  3. ^ http://www.rickhautala.com/bibliography.html
  4. ^ Shroud article