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Author Description Andi Brooks is an Anglo-Irish writer and anthologist based in Tokyo. He began writing on vintage horror and science fiction films in 1991 for UK and American magazines such as Scary Monsters, Cult Movies, and Bits and Pieces. <br /><br />With Frank J. Dello Stritto, he co-wrote Vampire Over London: Bela Lugosi in Britain (Cult Movies Press 2000), a critically acclaimed biography of the Hollywood legend forever associated with the role of Dracula. In 2017, he received the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Dracula and the It Girl, an article recounting the short-lived love affair between Bela Lugosi and silent screen star Clara Bow. <br /><br />In 2020, he published Ghostly Tales of Japan, a collection of original ghostly stories set throughout Japanese history. French and Japanese translations of the collection were published in 2022. <br /><br />In 2022, he began editing the Ghost Stories For Christmas, an annual anthology of classic tales from the golden age of Christmas ghost stories.<br /><br />In 2024, he collaborated with the French artist Aurélie Grasser Rifi Saidi on Nursery Crimes, an illustrated collection of his absurd poetry.<br /><br />His fiction has been featured in Shorts From Avon, Book of 42², Tokyo Weekender Magazine, Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural Stories, The Spooky Isles, and White Enso Journal. He is currently writing a second volume of ghostly Japanese stories.<br /><br />In addition to his fiction writing, Andi is a copywriter for The Rake Japan, a Japanese men’s fashion magazine, the curator of The Bela Lugosi Blog, and an electronic musician.<br /><br />Boasting ancestors who had regular congress with the spirit world Andi has enjoyed a lifelong interest in the supernatural.

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