Tim Lucas

TIM LUCAS is the author of four well-received novels: Throat Sprockets (1994), The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula (2005, revised 2023), The Secret Life of Love Songs (2021) and The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes (2022). Throat Sprockets, which is included in Jones & Newman's Horror: Another 100 Best Books and was selected by Rue Morgue as one of 50 essential alternative horror novels, is set to be published in an expanded 30th anniversary edition by Valancourt Books. The revised edition of...See more

TIM LUCAS is the author of four well-received novels: Throat Sprockets (1994), The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula (2005, revised 2023), The Secret Life of Love Songs (2021) and The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes (2022). Throat Sprockets, which is included in Jones & Newman's Horror: Another 100 Best Books and was selected by Rue Morgue as one of 50 essential alternative horror novels, is set to be published in an expanded 30th anniversary edition by Valancourt Books. The revised edition of The Book of Renfield, published by Riverdale Avenue Books, won the 2023 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Classic Monster Fiction.Tim is now in the fifth decade of his career as a film critic, essayist and journalist specializing in horror/fantasy cinema, which began when his first publication appeared in Cinefantastique magazine at the age of 15. He and his wife Donna (who passed away in 2022) published the much honored and influential Video Watchdog magazine from 1990 to 2018. His writings on film have appeared in other publications around the world, including Sight & Sound (where his "NoZone" column ran for almost ten years), Film Comment, American Cinematographer, Cahiers du Cinéma, Starfix, Metro, Little Shoppe of Horrors, Eyeball and Fear, as well as his long-running blog Video WatchBlog.He has also written two movie monographs, Videodrome (2008) and Spirits of the Dead (2018). A third monograph, focused on Franco's film Succubus (aka Necronomicon), is awaiting publication. He is also the author of Mario Bava - All the Colors of the Dark (2007), a monolithic critical biography on the life and works of the Italian filmmaker heralded as the "Maestro of the Macabre".Well-known as a prolific audio commentator, Tim has produced more than 150 lecture tracks released on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray discs all over the world.His work has been honored with two Saturn Awards (for Mario Bava - All the Colors of the Dark and his commentary for Kino Lorber's Blu-ray release of Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat), the Independent Publishers Bronze Medal Award and the International Horror Guild Award. He additionally holds a record 22 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Film Awards, including their Legacy Award; in 2011, he and Donna were inducted into their Monster Kid Hall of Fame. Tim is presently working on a number of new book projects, including an intensive study of the Adults Only films of Joe Sarno. See less