Born in Germany. Living in Ireland. Lover of cult films and paperbacks. Photographer. German tutor. Salaryman. Loves to travel. As a writer I have written a lot of cult film related reviews for various websites and fanzines and am currently in the process of making some of the older material more easily accessible via e-Books while also creating some new stuff. Most important for me is a series of books dedicated to the German Krimi and Thriller movies of the 1960s, the first of which "The Many Masks of Dr. Mabuse" has just been published. As a reader my tastes are pretty eclectic but genres that I tend to read a lot are: *Crime and Mystery - Great fan of Sherlock Holmes in all his incarnations, Modesty Blaise, James Bond, other serial heroes and villains (e.g. Fu Manchu), love Noir novels, especially Cornell Woolrich *Books about cinema - Great fan of all things horror or trash with a deep undying love for the classic Hammer movies but also love all things Eurotrash *Classic novels - Will I ever finish all the 1001 books I need to read before I die? Nope, but I will die trying *Horror/SciFi - Love those genres and need to urgently revisit some of the classics of my youth. I have, however, some surprising gaps in my knowledge and am more familiar with Guy N Smith than Stephen King. *Graphic Novels - Well, comics, as I like to call them. I used to never include them in my list of books as I believe they are a totally different media format but what can I say: they make my reading list appear much bigger than it often is. Oh, and I *do* buy books for their covers as I really love the vintage 1960s/70s paperback design and especially some of the vigilante style men's adventure novels of the time.