Joe Augustyn
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Joe Augustyn

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Joe Augustyn's love of all things spooky and strange was instilled by his grandmother, who told stories of ghosts and exorcisms she'd witnessed as a farm girl in sub-Carpathian Europe. Compulsively creative since childhood, Joe started writing stories in grade school and in his teen years won awards for his oil and acrylic paintings, but was later drawn into the world of Hollywood filmmaking. After winning a Nissan FOCUS Award for writing, Joe completed a Producing Fellowship at The American Film Institute (AFI). He wrote and produced the original cult horror film NIGHT OF THE DEMONS, cited in Professor Robin R. Means Coleman's book HORROR NOIRE as a "cult-fan favorite among hip young adults." He followed it with a sequel and a third movie based on the ancient legend of Lilith titled NIGHT ANGEL. Joe took a break from screenwriting to focus on writing books, a somewhat more satisfying medium for a writer because unlike movies it provides a direct unfiltered connection from the writer to the reader. Joe shares a genuinely haunted but happy home in Philadelphia with a few feline friends and an occasional mischievous spirit, a subject he covered in GHOSTWRITER: THE POLAROID GHOST & OTHER TRUE TALES OF THE PARANORMAL, which actor and paranormal enthusiast Dan Aykroyd called "an essential volume for any serious seeker in the understanding of the paranormal." His novels include DEAD RAIN: A TALE OF THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, and THE NINE LIVES OF FELICIA MILLER, a dark supernatural thriller about a teen feline shapeshifter who exacts revenge on a band of evil boys who've been abusing the girls of her town. Joe most recently published BAD DAY IN PARADISE, an eclectic collection of short stories, and is writing screenplays again.
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