Schuy R. Weishaar is author of the novel Dark of the Center Line and the academic monograph Masters of the Grotesque: The Cinema of Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Coen Brothers, and David Lynch. He has earned a Master of Theological Studies from Duke University and a Ph.D. in English, with concentrations in Criticism and Theory and Film Studies, from Middle Tennessee State University. He is lyricist and vocalist for the band Manzanita Bones.