Brian James Freeman is the author of Walking with Ghosts, The Painted Darkness, Blue November Storms, The Echo of Memory, The Halloween Children (with Norman Prentiss), Darkness Whispers (with Richard Chizmar), More Than Midnight, Weak and Wounded, Dreamlike States, Lost and Lonely, and Seven Stories, an Amazon eBook exclusive short story collection that was the #1 bestselling story collection in the US, UK, Germany, Spain, and France, and #2 bestseller in Italy. His work has been translated into more than a dozen languages throughout the world.

Brian is the editor of Dark Screams (with Richard Chizmar), Detours, The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book (with Bev Vincent), The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book (with Kevin Quigley and Hans-Ake Lilja), Reading Stephen King, and Halloween Carnival.

He has also written two children’s books: The Zombie Who Cried Human, illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne, and The Girl Who Builds Monsters, illustrated by Vincent Chong.

Freeman sold his first short story when he was fourteen years old and his first novel when he was twenty-four. His novels, novellas, anthologies, short stories, essays, and interviews have been published by Grand Central Publishing, Random House, Cemetery Dance Publications, Borderlands Press, Book-of-the-Month Club, Leisure, and many others.

His novella, The Painted Darkness, took the Internet by storm as an eBook during the summer of 2010, reaching more than 30,000 readers in the first three months after publication. The book was published in hardcover in December 2010 by Cemetery Dance Publications, with the signed editions selling out in just 24 hours. Due to overwhelming demand from booksellers, the first printing of the trade edition went out of print on the day of publication and Cemetery Dance rushed a second printing.

Brian’s short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies since 1994 including From the Borderlands (Warner Books), Borderlands 5 (Borderlands Press), Corpse Blossoms (Creeping Hemlock Press), Shocklines (Cemetery Dance Publications), and eight volumes of the acclaimed Shivers anthology series (Cemetery Dance Publications).

He’s well-known in the Stephen King fan community for his two well-regarded books of Stephen King trivia: The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book (with Bev Vincent) and The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book (with Kevin Quigley and Hans-Ake Lilja), both of which featured copious amounts of artwork by acclaimed horror artist Glenn Chadbourne.

His essays, columns, and interviews have been published in The Stephen King Library Desk Calendar (Book of the Month Club), Jobs in Hell, Hellnotes, and Cemetery Dance. His non-fiction has been translated into French.

For nearly twenty years, he was the managing editor of Cemetery Dance Publications and the publisher of Lonely Road Books, and he’s now the owner of Lividian Publications. In these positions he has published the works of Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Gillian Flynn, Scott Smith, Frank Darabont, Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, Max Brooks, Michael Koryta, Justin Cronin, Joe R. Lansdale, Michael Slade, Frank Darabont, Mick Garris, Stewart O’Nan, and many other acclaimed authors.

Brian James Freeman lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, their kids, a German Shorthaired Pointer, and an English Pointer.

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Brian James Freeman is the author of Walking with Ghosts, The Painted Darkness, Blue November Storms, The Echo of Memory, The Halloween Children (with Norman Prentiss), Darkness Whispers (with Richard Chizmar), and four mini-collections of his short fiction. He has written two children’s books: The Zombie Who Cried Human, illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne, and The Girl Who Builds Monsters, illustrated by Vincent Chong. He’s also the editor of Midnight Under the Big Top, Dark Screams (with Richard Chizmar), Detours, Reading Stephen King, and the Halloween Carnival anthology series. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, their kids, a German Shorthaired Pointer, and an English Pointer.