Scott Christian Carr

Scott Christian Carr has been a radio talk show host, editor of a flying saucer magazine, fishmonger, spelunker, journalist, TV producer, psychonaut and author. His published novels include HIRAM GRANGE & THE TWELVE LITTLE HITLERS, which Lloyd Kaufman (President of Troma Entertainment and Creator of the Toxic Avenger) calls, “More fun than a barrel full of Hitlers… The best novel since Don Quixote!” and his latest WASTELAND BLUES (co-authored with Andrew Conry-Murray), a post-apocalyptic tale and the first book of a trilogy.

Carr is an award-winning writer and producer of film/television. He is the Sr. Writer/Co-Creator of The Learning Channel (TLC) television series DEAD TENANTS. As Head of Development for both the Emmy Award-winning Triple Threat Television and the Academy Award-nominated Fredric Golding Productions Scott developed original programming for MSNBC, ESPN, CNBC, A&E, The Hallmark Channel, Discovery Networks and The Learning Channel.

In 1999 Scott was awarded The Hunter S. Thompson Award for Outstanding Journalism, in 2006 his original television pilot THE REAL DEAL was awarded 1st Place in Scriptapalooza TV for Best Original Pilot, in 2009 he was a Bram Stoker Award nominee (Best Anthology, Beneath the Surface, Shroud Publishing) and he is a 2010 Choate Road “Spotlight Scribe.” He is currently pushing his latest novels THE THOUSAND YEAR NIXON and BELIEVER out into the world, and diving into his next projects: the novels [PAUSE], THE FIRST TIME WE DIED, MATTHEW’S MEMORIES (illustrated by Danny Evarts), and his first historical novel, WOODSTOCK, BABY. Carr is a contributing editor to - and his fringe culture column SOMEONE OUGHTA SELL TICKETS...! is a regular feature in - Shroud Magazine.

Scott is the creator and executive producer of the post-apocalypse film THE NUKE BROTHERS (featured at DragonCon the World’s Largest Scifi & Fantasy Film Festival and the AnthoCon Speculative Film & Fiction conference.) and writer of the tie-in comic book THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES OF FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY…

His other published works include THE GARBAGE EATERS, THE MARTIAN IN THE GARDEN, A HELMET FULL OF HAIR, THE JESUS BOMB, LITTLE EDSEL EINSTEIN, NUKE LOVE!, and the anthologies DESOLATE PLACES, BENEATH THE SURFACE, SCARY! HOLIDAY TALES TO MAKE YOU SCREAM, SICK: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ILLNESS (which features an excerpt from his upcoming novel BELIEVER) and the upcoming TERROR AT MISKATONIC FALLS (illustrated by Danny Evarts). Scott’s fiction has appeared in dozens of magazines and publications, including SHROUD MAGAZINE, GUD, PULP ETERNITY, HORROR QUARTERLY, THE DREAM PEOPLE LITERARY MAGAZINE, THE MUFON JOURNAL, WEIRD N.J. and WITHERSIN. His novella A HELMET FULL OF HAIR was recently translated and reprinted in the prestigious French quarterly, GALAXIES: LA REVUE DE RÉFÉRENCE DE LA SCIENCE FICTION.

He lives in both Greenwhich Village, NYC and in upstate NY in a home once owned by George Hansburg (inventor of the pogo stick) on a secluded mountaintop in New York’s Hudson Valley with his two children, Emmett and Eden.

He writes every day.