Michael Penning is an award-winning screenwriter and bestselling author of horror and dark fiction. His films have screened at international film festivals across North America and Europe and his scripts have been awarded prizes in high-profile screenwriting competitions such as Creative Screenwriting’s Next Great John Carpenter Movie Contest and the American Screenwriter’s Association Original Screenplay Awards.

Michael’s series of historical horror novels, Book of Shadows, are Amazon bestsellers, and reviewers have called him “the best new writer since early Stephen King.”

Michael is an avid fan of Halloween, haunted houses, and things that go bump in the night. When he’s not coming up with creative ways to scare the hell out of people, he enjoys travelling, photography, and brewing beer. He lives in Montreal with his wife and daughter.