Director: Philip Gelatt
Producers: Will Battersby
Director of Photography: Sean Kirby, Composer Peter Scartabello
Editor: April Merl
Sound Designer: Ben Cheah
Documentary series FIRST WORD ON HORROR is now available on Substack and currently featuring episodes from Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter), Paul Tremblay (The Cabin At The End Of The World), Elizabeth Hand (A Haunting On the Hill, Hokuloa Road, The Cass Neary Crime Novels), Laird Barron (The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All; The Wind Began to Howl; and Not a Speck of Light (Stories)) and Mariana Enriquez (Our Share Of Night, A Sunny Place For Shady People) premiering NEXT WEEK on APRIL 24. Four of the authors featured in the series (Including Enriquez) have recently been shortlisted for this year's prestigious Bram Stoker Awards.
ABOURT MARIANA ENRIQUEZ
Mariana Enriquez is a writer based in Buenos Aires. In English, she has published the novel Our Share of Night and three story collections, A Sunny Place For Shady People, Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction. She has also recently been shortlisted for this year's prestigious Bram Stoker Awards.
ABOUT SANTIAGO CARUSO is an Argentine artist. His work cultivates a language of novel and personal rhetoric, although grounded in the symbolist aesthetics. Among his many works are illustrated versions of Jane Eyre (Folio Society); The Chants of Maldoror (Valdemar); The Dunwich Horror, The Bloody Countess, The Monk and the Hangman´s Daughter, The King of Yellow (Libros del Zorro Rojo); Materia Oscura, El Eco de mis Muertes (Aguijón de la Noche); The Walls of the Castle, The Booking (Black Labyrinth).He has made book covers for Tartarus Press, Actes Sud, Planeta, Sudamericana and Páginas de Espuma. Also he develops album covers for various bands in America and Europe. You can find his artwork in galleries and museums of Argentina, United States, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Brazil, Mexico and Spain.
ABOUT ETCH
Etch is an independent animation and production company run by the award-winning trio of Philip Gelatt, Will Battersby and Morgan Galen King. Specializing in the provocative, intelligent and innovative, as well as fantastical and horrific, Etch seeks to put the dark magic back into moving images.
Etch has expertise in animation, documentary and feature production and a core philosophy of maintaining ownership and creative control through novel approaches to production and distribution.
