Who is Andi Brooks?
Andi Brooks is an Anglo-Irish writer and electronic musician based in Tokyo. He began writing short science fiction and horror stories in 1992. The following year, he turned his attention to writing on vintage horror and science fiction films for UK and American magazines such as Cult Movies and Scary Monsters
In 2000, with Frank J. Dello Stritto, he co-wrote Vampire Over London: Bela Lugosi in Britain, a critically acclaimed biography of the Hollywood legend forever associated with the role of Dracula. An updated and expanded second edition followed in 2005.
In 2017, he received the Rondo Hatton Classiv Horror Award for Dracula and the It Girl, an article recounting the short-lived love affair between Bela Lugosi and silent screen star Clara Bow.
In 2020, he published Ghostly Tales of Japan, a collection of original ghostly stories set throughout Japanese history. In 2022, the French publishing house OKNO Éditions published a French translation, Histoires de fantômes japonais, by Arnold Petit, and Kikui Press published a Japanese translation by Matsumoto Kentaro.
His short stories and poetry have been published in Shorts From Avon, Tokyo Weekender Magazine, The Spooky Isles, and White Enzo Journal, and have been read on Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural Stories. He is currently writing a second volume of ghostly Japanese stories and editing a collection of classic Christmas ghost stories.
In addition to writing fiction, Andi is the editor of the Ghost Stories For Christmas anthology series, a copywriter for the Japanese men’s fashion magazine The Rake Japan and the curator of The Bela Lugosi Blog.
He also creates electronic music under the name AirStripOne and occasionally releases music by other artists on his Trash City record label.
Despite boasting ancestors who had regular congress with the spirit world and having a lifelong interest in the supernatural, all of Andi’s encounters have, to date, been mundanely earthbound.
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