Deluge: The Conqueror Worms II

About The Author

Brian Keene is an American author, primarily of horror, crime fiction, and comic books. He has won two Bram Stoker Awards.

Keene was born in 1967. He grew up in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and many of his books take place in these locales.After graduating high school, he served as a radioman in the U.S. Navy aboard an LPD. After his enlistment ended, Keene worked a variety of jobs before becoming a full-time writer. Among them were stints as a foundry worker, truck driver, data entry clerk, dockworker, telemarketer, customer service representative, repo man, bouncer, disc jockey, salesman, store manager, daycare instructor, custodian, and more. In interviews, he credits this diverse background as the key to the characters that populate his books.

Keene has won two Bran Stoker awards, One in 2001 for non-fiction Jobs In Hell and one in 2003 for best first novel The Rising. He is also the recipient of the 2004 Shocker Award for non-fiction Sympathy for the Devil as well as many small and regional awards.

In 2004 and 2005, Keene spearheaded a Books For Troops program, in which various horror authors supplied free, signed books to American troops serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the world. Keene was honored for this in 2005 by the 509th Logistics Fuels Flight Squadron based at Whiteman A.F.B. in Missouri.

In 2006, three stories from Keene's Fear of Gravity were adapted in the graphic novel Brian Keene's FEAR. The stories were "Castaways", "Red Wood", and the award-winning "The King, in: Yellow". In 2008, Marvel Comics announced that Keene would be writing for them. His first project for the company was the four-issue MAX series: Dead of Night: Devil-Slayer. Keene has since gone on to write for DC Comics, Antarctic Press, and others, as well as media tie-in work for Hellboy, Doctor Who, and other franchises.

In 2004, The Rising was optioned for film and videogame adaptations. In 2005 City of the Dead was optioned for the same. In 2006, Terminal was optioned for film. In 2008, the short story "The Ties That Bind" was optioned for film, and it has its world premiere on April 4, 2009 at the Garden State Film Festival. In 2009 "Dark Hollow" was optioned for film by director Paul Campion.

Ghoul was made into a TV movie directed by Gregory Wilson and starring Nolan Gould and will debut on the Chiller Network in 2012.

In 2011 "Darkness at the Edge of Town" was optioned, and "Castaways" was optioned by Drive-In Films.

Keene currently lives in Pennsylvania.