David J. Skal

David J. Skal (Garfield Heights, Ohio; 1952) is one of the leading scholars of horror culture. The author of many short stories since his university years, in the 1980s, he published three science fiction novels: Scavengers (1980), When We Were Good (1981) and Antibodies (1987). In 1990, his interest in Dracula and its multiple film and theatre adaptations film drove him to write his first essay: Hollywood gótico: la enmarañada historia de Drácula (Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen) (Es Pop, 2015). This was the start of a brilliant career as a nonfiction author, with prominent works like the biography of Bram Stoker Algo en la sangre (Something in the Blood), Halloween and his classic that was just reissued after years of waiting, The Monster Show (Es Pop, 2023). He has also written and directed around a dozen documentaries, some of which can be seen in Spanish as extras on the DVD and Blu-Ray editions of the classic monster films from Universal.