Wayne Spitzer

Wayne Kyle Spitzer (born July 15, 1966) is an American author, illustrator, and low-budget horror filmmaker¹ from Spokane, Washington,² and founding editor of the publications Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction, Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder, and Mobius Blvd Magazine. He is the author of countless books, stories, and other works, including Flashback,³ The Ferryman Pentalogy (comprising Comes a Ferryman, The Tempter and the Taker, The Pierced Veil, Black Hole, White Fountain, and To the End of Ursathrax⁴), X-Ray Rider and 7 Other Dark Rites of Passage, Legends of the Flashback: The Finished Saga, The Devil Drives a '66 and Other Stories, The Witch-Doctor Diaries and Other Dystopias, The Place and 10 Other Stories from the Region Between, as well as a film (Shadows in the Garden¹) and a screenplay (Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows⁵). His work has appeared in MetaStellar—Speculative fiction and beyond, subTerrain Magazine: Strong Words for a Polite Nation⁶ and Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History,⁷ among others. His recent fiction includes The War-torn Hills of Earth and The Wine-Dark Passage.

Spitzer was involved in Spokane's underground filmmaking scene from 1994 to 2005.⁸ His notable projects include Dead of Night,⁹ a Spokane-area (cable TV) broadcast venture, Don't Look Up, and a feature-length compilation, Monstersdotcom,¹⁰ including Shadows in the Garden¹ and Last Stop Station,¹¹ most of which are available through Vinegar Syndrome Cult Film Preservation and Releasing, as well as Portland-based Black Vvideo, Brimstone LLC, and Seattle-based IndieFlix.

Spitzer has taught creative writing at Corbin Art Center¹² and Airway Heights Corrections Center.¹³ He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in writing from Eastern Washington University, a Bachelor of English from Gonzaga University, and an Associate in Applied Science degree in Television Production from Spokane Falls Community College.