Will Viharo
Will Viharo is an East Bay/Seattle based author who has published nine novels. Seven of his novels are neo-noir (or neo-pulp ) works which blend elements of surrealism, gore, violent sex, and horror.
His body of writing includes the Vic Valentine series (Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me, Fate Is My Pimp/Romance Takes A Raincheck, and I Lost My Heart In Hollywood/Diary of a Dick), Lavender Blonde, and Down A Dark Alley. Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me, originally published by Wild Card Press in 1993, was republished in August 2013 by Gutter Press, in anticipation of the movie adaption, which Christian Slater will direct and star in.[1]
Viharo, who was born in New York City on April 2, 1963, has also written two supernatural horror works: A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge and Freaks That Carry Your Luggage Up To Your Room.
From 1997 to 2012, Viharo, under the name Will the Thrill, regularly hosted Thrillville, a series of B-movie showings, with his wife Monica "the Tiki Goddess" Cortes Viharo.[2] The locations of these stagings included the Parkway Speakeasy Theater in Oakland, California, which closed in 2009; the Cerrito Theater in El Cerrito, California (now operating under different management); and the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.[3][4]
Viharo's parents named him after William Shakespeare. His mother is a former beauty queen, and his father, Robert Viharo, a B-movie actor.[5]
In a March 2014 interview, Viharo stated that he is working on short stories - "an unusual form" for him - and would soon be finishing his sixth Vic Valentine novel, then (publicly) untitled.[6] In several Facebook posts in December 2014, Viharo announced that the book's title would be Hard Boiled Heart and that it would be published by Gutter Press, sometime in 2015.
Works
- Chumpy Walnut (a fable "about a foot-tall boy lost in a world of macabre make-believe" that Viharo wrote when he was sixteen years old[3])
- It Came From Hangar 18, an erotic science fiction work, co-authored with Scott Fulks
- "Behind the Bar" (story), from the 2014 anthology Long Distance Drunks: A Tribute to Charles Bukowski, edited by Max Booth III
- "People Bug Me" (story), published in the fifth issue of Nightmare Illustrated magazine in April 2014
- "Short and Choppy" (story), published in the Vol. 1 Issue 1/Fall 2014 issue of Dark Corners in October 2014 (Editors: CT McNeely, Emily J. McNeely and Steve Gallagher)
- "The Lost Sock" (story), published in the Vol. 1 Issue 2/Winter 2014 issue of Dark Corners in December 2014 (Editors: CT McNeely, Emily J. McNeely and Steve Gallagher)
References
- ↑ Tony DuShane (23 October 2013). "Christian Slater rescues Will Viharo's pulpy novel". SFGate. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ↑ Laura Casey (10 April 2007). "B movies on the A list with Will Viharo". Inside Bay Area.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sean McCourt, "Write what you know," San Francisco Bay Guardian, September 13, 2011
- ↑ Peter Harlaub, Thrillville's Will Viharo takes act to Alameda, SF Gate , July 31, 2010
- ↑ Stefanie Kalem, "Faster, Parkway Guy! Write! Write!", East Bay Express, November 23, 2011
- ↑ Evan Karp, "The Write Stuff: Will Viharo on Self Therapy and Throwing Out Notes in Bottles", SF Weekly, March 20, 2014