F. PAUL WILSON is an award-winning, NY Times bestselling author of over 60 books spanning science fiction, horror, adventure, medical thrillers, young adult, and virtually everything between. He’s best known as creator of the urban mercenary Repairman Jack who is featured in his latest novel The Last Christmas and in the graphic novel Scar-Lip Redux from Dynamite Comics.
He sold his first story to John W. Campbell for Analog in 1970 and never looked back. 2021 marks Paul’s golden anniversary as a published author – since Startling Mystery Stories #18 in March, 1971.
The Keep, The Tomb, Harbingers, By the Sword, The Dark at the End, and Nightworld were New York Times Bestsellers. The Tomb received the 1984 Porgie Award from The West Coast Review of Books. Wheels within Wheels won the first Prometheus Award in 1979; Sims took the 2004 Prometheus. His novels Healer and An Enemy of the State were elected to the Prometheus Hall of Fame. Dydeetown World was on the young adult recommended reading lists of the American Library Association and the New York Public Library, among others. “Aftershock” won the 1999 Stoker Award. He received the prestigious Inkpot Award from San Diego ComiCon, the Grand Master Award from the World Horror Convention, and the Horror Writers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Romantic Times awarded him their Pioneer Award for Urban Fantasy and their Thriller Lifetime Achievement Award. He is listed in the 50th anniversary edition of Who’s Who in America.
Starting in 2021, Borderlands Press with be collecting all his short fiction into a 3 volume set titled The Compendium of F. All his many pastiches are collected in Other Sandboxes. He has edited two original anthologies: Freak Show and Diagnosis: Terminal. He is proud to have edited (with Pierce Watters) the only complete collection of Henry Kuttner’s Hogben stories, The Hogben Chronicles. All his non-fiction has been collected in Ephemerata.
Other Media:
His novel The Keep was made into a visually striking but otherwise incomprehensible movie (screenplay and direction by Michael Mann) for Paramount in 1983.
His original teleplay “Glim-Glim” aired on Monsters in 1989.
With Matt Costello he created and scripted FTL Newsfeed for the Sci-Fi Channel, running from 1994 to 1996.
Again with Costello, script and design for Mathquest with Aladdin (Disney Interactive – 1997) with voices by Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters.
An adaptation of his short story “Menage a Trois” was part of the pilot for The Hunger series that debuted on Showtime in 1997 with Karen Black, Daniel Craig, and Lena Headly.
Dario Argento adapted his story “Pelts” for Masters of Horror in 2006.
The Tomb (along with its hero, Repairman Jack) has been in development hell at Beacon Films for a quarter century now.
Over nine million copies of his books are in print in the US; his work has been translated into twenty-four foreign languages.
His latest books are The Compendium of F and Double Threat. He resides at the Jersey Shore with his wife Mary where he continues to write his butt off. In his spare time he haunts eBay for strange clocks and Daddy Warbucks memorabilia.