Nicholas Grabowsky’s novels of horror/fantasy and mainstream pulp fiction, both as himself, as Nicholas Randers, and as Marsena Shane, have generated worldwide acclaim for over two decades and praised by many of today’s most popular horror gurus in the literary world. He began his career in traditional publishing houses with brisk sellers in mass market paperback horror and romance, and the last ten years have seen him hailed by many as a mentor and advocate to the smaller presses, which has become to him a passion.
His body of work includes the award-winning macabre aliens-among-us epic The Everborn, The Rag Man, Pray Serpent’s Prey, Halloween IV (and its special edition), Diverse Tales, Reads & Reviews, The Wicked Haze, Sweet Dreams Lady Moon, June Park, numerous anthologies, magazine articles, and self help books, with projects extending to screenplays, poetry, songs, film, and a wide variety of short fiction and nonfiction since the 1980s.
He’s a veteran special guest at numerous genre conventions and makes appearances and signings across North America. He has been in the limelight as a radical gospel preacher right out of high school and in the following years a rock vocalist, teacher, lecturer and activist, editor, publisher and founder of the Sacramento-based Diverse Media small press, which has recently blossomed into the subdivisions of Black Bed Sheet Books, which publishes exemplary literature (fiction & non), and Black Bed Sheet Productions, which produces independent film.
Currently, Nicholas is at work with numerous anthologies, graphic novels and comic books, an Everborn sequel and the novels The Downwardens and The Sirens of Knowland. His independent film projects include the upcoming slasher creature feature Cutting Edges, as well as co-writing the independent film Into the Basement, for Triad Pictures. For more on the author and his works, visit www.downwarden.com, the official site of all things Grabowsky.

Quotes about Grabowsky

"My Dear Nicholas: You seem to me---in a way that's entirely admirable----a man out of time. You're writing horror epics when the audience has become increasingly numbed by cinematic hokum and stale ideas. I salute you: your ambition, your dedication, your achievements, your blissfully complex imagination...." ----Clive Barker (bestselling author & director, Hellraiser, etc.)

"Grabowsky succeeds in making the whole world creepy...." ----Heidi Martinuzzi, E! Entertainment Television

"Grabowsky's writing is at times touching and emotional, however, his real talent is his ability to infuse his writing with a sense of dread and loathing that I have not experienced since H.P. Lovecraft..." ----Tahoe Daily Tribune

"Grabowsky has imagination to spare.....!" ---Sacramento Bee

"Impressive storytelling....." ----Wes Craven (Dir., A Nightmare on Elm Street)

“…..soon we’ll all be hearing about this Grabowsky guy….” ---Joe Dante (Dir, Gremlins, The Howling)

“Keep ‘em coming, Nicholas….” ----Stephen King

“All hail Grabowsky!” ---Horrorweb.com

“Grabowsky melds horror and Sci-fi with such expertise that I am left speechless.” ---Gorezone Magazine

Bibliography

Novels
•(1988) Pray, Serpent's Prey (Nicholas Randers)
•(1988) Halloween IV
•(1988) Sweet Dreams, Lady Moon (Marsena Shane)
•(1989) The Rag Man (AKA 'Tattered,' Nicholas Randers)
•(1989) June Park (Marsena Shane)
•(1990) Tale of the Makeshift Faire (Nicholas Randers)
•(2002) The Everborn
•(2002) Halloween IV: The Special Limited Edition
•(2005) The Wicked Haze
•(upcoming) The Downwardens

Collections
•(2006) Diverse Tales
•(2009, January) Red Wet Dirt

Nonfiction
•(1988) The Easy Way to Great Legs (Marsena Shane)
•(1988) Nancy (Biography of the First Lady) (Marsena Shane)
•(1989) Your Heart Belongs to You (Marsena Shane)
•(2008) Nick Reads & Reviews

Anthologies and Publications of Recent Note
•(2005) Embark to Madness (Introduction)
•(2005) War of the Worlds (Introduction)
•(2005) The Invisible Man (Introduction)
•(2006) Buck Alice & the Actor-robot (editor, by author Walter Koenig)
•(2006) Fear: An Anthology of Horror & Suspense (Introduction)
•(2007) Shocking Tales of Murder & Insanity (Editor, by Jake Istre)
•(2007) Echoes of Terror (short story, Looks Like a Rat to Me)
•(2007) Doorways Magazine (Issue #4, short story, The Yuletide Thing)
•(2008) You're Dead Already...Living in Hell (Editor, by Jake Istre)
•(2008) From the Shadows (short story, The Freeway Reaper)

Children's
•(2006) Flatty Kat: Tales of an Urban Feline (with Phyllis Haupert)