Stephen Volk was born on 3 July 1954 and is a Welsh screenwriter and novelist who specializes in the horror genre.
14 Facts About Stephen Volk
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Stephen Volk wrote the screenplays for numerous horror films, including Ken Russell's Gothic, The Kiss, and William Friedkin's The Guardian.
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Stephen Volk was born in Pontypridd, Wales on 3 July 1954.
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Stephen Volk has stated his interest in horror was triggered by watching the TV drama The Stone Tape by Nigel Kneale, and the film Don't Look Now by Nicolas Roeg.
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Stephen Volk studied at Lanchester Polytechnic in Coventry, and the University of Bristol.
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Stephen Volk then worked as an advertising copywriter before becoming a full-time writer.
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Stephen Volk's first produced work was Ken Russell's film Gothic in 1986.
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Stephen Volk wrote a script, Horror Movie, for Goldcrest Films that was never made due to Goldcrest's collapse.
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Stephen Volk reworked the script so that everything would be set "Like episode six" and repitched it as a 90-minute live broadcast drama on behalf of BBC's Screen One drama segment.
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Stephen Volk has written fiction in the horror and ghost story genres; some of these stories were collected in the book Dark Corners.
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In 1995, Stephen Volk wrote two serials of the series Ghosts.
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In 2018, Stephen Volk published The Dark Masters Trilogy, an omnibus featuring Whitstable and Leytonstone, as well as a new novella, Netherwood.
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Stephen Volk wrote a monthly column about horror for Black Static magazine until the end of 2016.
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Stephen Volk and his wife Patricia, who is a sculptor, live in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire.