Walter Greatshell

http://www.waltergreatshell.com

Welcome to the mind of Walter Greatshell. Just about everything you find on his website has been drawn, painted, written, or otherwise created by him. The only exceptions are the cover art for his novel Xombies and Xombies: Apocalypse Blues, which are by Berkley/Ace, and the layout of the site itself, for which he thanks Brian Greene of bgfolio. The rest is mine, all mine.

Enter. Explore! Surf the inner wallpaper of his tortured psyche. And if you should happen to be a publisher, film producer, or anyone else with a professional interest in him or his work, welcome! He'd love to hear from you.

But who, you may ask, is Walter Greatshell?

To answer that question, we must go back a long way...all the way to 1962. To the time of the Beatles and Ed Sullivan and John F. Kennedy. Back to the sleepy little hamlet of Torrance, California, where in the hushed maternity ward of Harbor General Hospital, a new life is about to be born...

Etcetera etcetera — fast forward to the present. Nowadays he lives with his wife and son in Providence, Rhode Island. When not writing satirical horror novels a la Xombies, he dabbles in freelance illustration (with an eye to creating dark children's books, comics or graphic novels), humorous nonfiction (a throwback to his early days as a freelance journalist and arts critic), and stage acting (most recently in local productions of Oedipus Rex and Karel Capek's R.U.R.). Which is to say He's unemployed. The last real job he had was as a graveyard-shift nuclear-submarine technician, and before that he was the general manager of a Providence landmark: the Avon Cinema. What he does next is anyone's guess.

Seriously, got any suggestions?

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