Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. A pseudonym used by Dennis Etchison.

Nicholas Grabowsky’s novels of horror/fantasy and mainstream pulp fiction, both as himself, as Nicholas Randers, and as Marsena Shane, have generated worldwide acclaim for over three and a half decades and praised by many of today’s popular horror gurus in the literary world and horror industry at large. He began his career in traditional publishing houses with brisk sellers in mass market paperback horror and romance, and in the last two decades is seen by many as a mentor to many authors and the smaller presses, which has become to him a passion. His body of work includes the award-winning macabre aliens-among-us epic The Everborn, The Rag Man, Pray Serpent’s Prey, Halloween IV (and its special editions), Diverse Tales, Reads & Reviews, The Wicked Haze, Sweet Dreams Lady Moon, Red Wet Dirt, numerous anthologies, magazine articles, and self help books, with projects extending to screenplays, poetry, songs, film, and a wide variety of short fiction and nonfiction since the 1980s. He’s a veteran special guest at numerous genre conventions and makes appearances and signings across North America. He has been in the limelight a radical gospel preacher right out of high school and in the following years a rock vocalist, teacher, lecturer and activist, editor, publisher and founder of the Sacramento-based Black Bed Sheet Books, which publishes “exemplary literature, fiction & non” but specializes in horror/fantasy, and Blue Bed Sheet Books, which published children's books, and subdivisions in progress. Currently, Nicholas is at work with numerous anthologies, graphic novels and comic books, an Everborn sequel and the novels The Downwardens and The Sirens of Knowland. His independent film projects include the slasher creature feature Cutting Edges. Quotes about Grabowsky: "My Dear Nicholas: You seem to me—-in a way that's entirely admirable——a man out of time. You're writing horror epics when the audience has become increasingly numbed by cinematic hokum and stale ideas. I salute you: your ambition, your dedication, your achievements, your blissfully complex imagination...." ——Clive Barker (bestselling author & director, Hellraiser, etc.) "Grabowsky succeeds in making the whole world creepy...." ——Heidi Martinuzzi, E! Entertainment Television "Grabowsky's writing is at times touching and emotional, however, his real talent is his ability to infuse his writing with a sense of dread and loathing that I have not experienced since H.P. Lovecraft..." ——Tahoe Daily Tribune "Grabowsky has imagination to spare.....!" —-Sacramento Bee "Impressive storytelling....." ——Wes Craven (Dir., A Nightmare on Elm Street) “…..soon we’ll all be hearing about this Grabowsky guy….” —-Joe Dante (Dir, Gremlins, The Howling) “Keep ‘em coming, Nicholas….” ——Stephen King “All hail Grabowsky!” —-Horrorweb.com “Grabowsky melds horror and Sci-fi with such expertise that I am left speechless.” —-Gorezone Magazine