Peter Giglio


Peter Giglio is an American novelist, editor, and screenwriter.

Biography

Giglio's first published piece of fiction, “The Better Half: A Love Story,” appeared in Werewolves and Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beast Within, edited by John Skipp.
Giglio's first novel, Anon, was published in 2011 by Hydra Publications, the same house that published the book's sequel, Beyond Anon, in 2012. The Anon series focuses on institutional evil and existential explorations.
In 2012, under executive editor John Skipp, Giglio teamed up with Scott Bradley for the apocalyptic novel, The Dark, published by Ravenous Shadows. The book received advance praise from Mark Protosevich, screenwriter of The Cell and I Am Legend, Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Flesh Eaters, Gerald Petievich, New York Times bestselling author of To Live and Die in L.A., and many others.
Giglio is the author of three novellas that subvert popular horror tropes: Balance, A Spark in the Darkness, and Sunfall Manor. A Spark in the Darkness was published in print in March 2012 as Cold Sparks: Two Chilling Novellas of Horror, paired with Catherine Cavendish’s Cold Revenge, and Sunfall Manor, which made the 2012 preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award in long fiction. Balance was released in print by Evil Jester Press, with a new introduction by Eric Shapiro.
Giglio’s short stories have been selected for inclusion in several anthologies, including Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane, edited by John Skipp; After Death..., edited by Eric J. Guignard; Mirages, edited by Trent Zelazny; and Nightscapes Volume 1, edited by Robert S. Wilson.
In 2011, Giglio edited the anthology, Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror, featuring Stephen Volk, Jeff Strand, and Joe McKinney. His second anthology, Evil Jester Digest Volume One, published in 2012, featured stories by Gary Brandner, Rick Hautala, and David Dunwoody. He is also the editor of Evil Jester Digest Volume Two, featuring Tim Waggoner and Gene O'Neill.
Giglio has film options on two literary properties: Joe R. Lansdale’s “The Night They Missed the Horror Show” and Rick Hautala’s Little Brothers.
Giglio is currently signed to a three novel deal with DarkFuse.

Credits

Novels & Novellas

  • Anon - June 2011
  • The Dark - October 2012
  • Beyond Anon - June 2012
  • Balance - March 2012
  • A Spark in the Darkness - September 2011
  • Cold Sparks: Two Chilling Novellas of Horror March 2012
  • Sunfall Manor October 2012
  • Stealing Night April 2013
  • Lesser Creatures December 2013
  • When We Fall - April 2014
  • Shadowshift June 2015

    Anthologies (as editor)

  • Help! Wanted: Tales of On-the-Job Terror
  • Evil Jester Digest Volume One
  • Evil Jester Digest Volume Two

    Novels (as editor)

  • The Quarry by Mark Allan Gunnells
  • Seraphim by Jon Michael Kelley
  • Inheritance by Joe McKinney
  • The Summer of Winters by Mark Allan Gunnells

    Screenplays

  • “The Night They Missed the Horror Show”, based on the short story by Joe R. Lansdale

    Short stories

  • “The Better Half: A Love Story”
  • “Sisters, Arizona”
  • “302”
  • “Tracking the Scent”
  • “The Power of Words”
  • “Reaching for the Light”
  • “Angela & the Angel”
  • “Trust”
  • “Straycation”
  • "Spiderdream"
  • "Cages"
  • "Game Changer"
  • "Evergreen"
  • "On the Road to Devil's Gulch"
  • "No Limit"
  • "Change"