Chris Altobelli was born in Long Branch, NJ. Growing up he saw many horrors that no child should see. He grew accustomed to being surrounded by death and pain. So he enlisted in the USMC. After a spinal injury took him out of service he began down two paths, The first a kinder gentler approach to life. He began working with the developmental disabilities community, and flourished in the field until his adoptive father fell ill. On the other path he traveled to the seediest places possible, and cultivated many of the ideas for the horrors he would write. Once he came back from the darker side the Thomas Carter Chronicles began.