Scot D. Ryersson

Scot D. Ryersson began his training at the prestigious Chelsea School of Art and Design (London) before entering the field of motion picture advertising and promotion. He has designed multi-award-winning graphics for numerous major Hollywood and international films, including The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Ghost (1990), and Witness (1985). Ryersson’s work on the campaigns for Evil Under the Sun (1982) and Another Country (1984) each garnered him an Art Directors of London Award. His illustration work has appeared in many publications worldwide. Ryersson is the author of numerous critiques and essays on film and literature. He has published exclusive interviews with author Anne Rice, actress Diana Rigg, and film director Tim Burton; an analysis of the supernatural fiction of Agatha Christie; and a cover-story on the life and work of German screen icon Brigitte Helm, star of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker. With Michael Orlando Yaccarino, Ryersson is coauthor of the internationally best-selling biography Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati and a play based upon it; the decadent fairy tale The Princess of Wax: Un Conte cruel; and most recently The Marchesa Casati: Portraits of a Muse. He is also the author of the novellas Poisoned Ivy; The Arsenic Flower; and Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know. Ryersson coedited Spectral Haunts and Phantom Lovers. In addition, he receives many private commissions to create one-of-a-kind, mixed-media art objects known as Arcanifacts. Ryersson is Co-Director of The Casati Archives.