Eric Red is a Los Angeles based motion picture screenwriter, director and author. His original scripts include The Hitcher for Tri Star, Near Dark for DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, Blue Steel for MGM and the western The Last Outlaw for HBO. He directed and wrote the crime film Cohen and Tate for Hemdale, Body Parts for Paramount, Undertow for Showtime, Bad Moon for Warner Bros. and the ghost story 100 Feet for Grand Illusions Entertainment.

His first novel, a dark coming-of-age tale about teenagers called Don’t Stand So Close, was published in 2012. His second novel, a werewolf western called The Guns Of Santa Sangre, will be published by Samhain Publishing in November 2013.

Eric’s recent published horror and suspense short stories include The Buzzard in Weird Tales magazine, Little Nasties in Shroud magazine, In the Mix in Dark Delicacies III: Haunted anthology, Past Due in Mulholland Books’ Popcorn Fiction and Curfew in Peep Show Volume 2 anthology. His short stories Colorblind and Do Not Disturb will be appear, respectively, in upcoming issues of Cemetery Dance magazine and Dark Discoveries Magazine .

He created and wrote the sci-fi/horror comic series and graphic novel Containment for IDW Publishing and the horror western comic series Wild Work to be published summer 2013 by Antarctic Press.