Author: Frank Belknap Long

Perry M. Grayson was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 11, 1975. Perry”s family relocated to Southern California during his early years. He lived in the San Fernando Valley, capital of the pornography business and the setting of the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High, until 2006. Perry now resides in Sydney, Australia, with his wife Tanya, an entertainment industry veteran, and two cats.Perry founded Tsathoggua Press in 1994 to publish pulp-era fantasy, horror and mystery fiction and non-fiction works relating to vintage authors. Since 1995, Perry has edited four volumes by his favorite author, Frank Belknap Long: Escape from Tomorrow (Necronomicon Press), The Eye Above the Mantel (Tsathoggua Press), The Darkling Tide (Tsathoggua Press) and the present collection. Many more FBL projects are in the works.Perry”s pro writing career began in 1994 as a journalist for electronic news service Silent Radio. Between 1997 and 2007 Perry served as copywriter and production coordinator for Sampson Advertising West, a busy porn graphic design and advertising agency.Perry”s other passion is music, and his pro music career took flight between 1997 and 2000 as guitarist and main songwriter in the heavy metal band Destiny”s End. With Destiny”s End, he recorded two albums on Metal Blade Records and embarked on a regional tour of Texas with labelmates Mercyful Fate in 1998. A full US tour with metal mavens Nevermore and Iced Earth followed in 1999. The US tour was followed by an appearance in front of tens of thousands of screaming metalheads at the illustrious Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany in August 1999-alongside a European tour with Sacred Steel, Wardog and Slough Feg.Next, Perry formed technical/progressive metal band Artisan, tackling both aggressive vocals and guitar from 2000-2003. While in Artisan, Perry supported internationally renowned metal artists such as Arch Enemy, Strapping Young Lad, Cathedral, Samael, Engine, Hate Eternal, Nile, Zero Hour, Onward and others.Since 2002, Perry has fronted the loud, raw vintage heavy rock power trio Falcon as guitarist/vocalist with friend and collaborator Greg Lindstrom, co-founder of cult U.S. metal legends Cirith Ungol. Towards the end of Perry”s tenure in Artisan (and simultaneous to Falcon) he played guitar for multinational metal project Isen Torr on the EP Mighty and Superior (2003). Branching out further, he played bass for American heavy doom rockers Pale Divine on a European tour in 2005 with Place of Skulls (led by Pentagram guitarist Victor Griffin).Aside from music, Perry”s pop-culture expertise extends far beyond to vintage TV, film and literature. He was a staff writer for Metal Maniacs, one of the world”s largest circulation heavy metal magazines, for over a decade.Since the mid-1990s, Perry has contributed fiction, non-fiction, interviews, reviews and poetry to such mags and sites as The Scream Factory, Crypt of Cthulhu, Necrofile, Other Dimensions, Snakepit, Fungi, Al Azif, Emptywords.org, Slow Ride, Hellridemusic.com, Snap Pop! and a host of others. He is often asked by hard rock and metal bands to pen liner notes and bios.A true-crime buff and lifelong devotee of American hardboiled literature, Perry often ventures out of the armchair, prowling deep into unsolved cold cases with abandon. His latest true-crime project, tentatively titled Dirty Deeds in L.A., focuses on weird crimes of the 1940s, including the Black Dahlia Murder case.