Joseph M. Monks

Joseph M. Monks made his first professional horror sale to GRUE magazine at the age of 16, and kept on keepin’ on. After losing his sight in 2002 to diabetic retinopathy, he went freelance, and after getting his first film property optioned, wrote the screenplay to The Bunker, the first, and only, feature ever directed by a blind filmmaker. His fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Second-Hand Creeps, Monsterthology, The Big Book of Horror Stories, and Sex Crimes,   as well as comic books including Cry For Dawn, The Night Terrors, and Zacherley’s Midnight Terrors. David J. Schow once introduced him to convention guests as, “One of the godfathers of splatterpunk.”