Jonathan D. Stiffy
Jonathan D. Stiffy writes horror fiction and screenplays.
He lives with his wife, Jessica, and daughters, Taylor, Madelyn, and Emma in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. There he works as a plastics engineer by day and is a horror culture enthusiast by night. His fiction has appeared in various publications, but in recent years he has been working on horror screenplays. His short screenplay, Brier Hill, earned the Outstanding Achievement in Short Screenwriting jury prize from the Oil Valley Film Festival in 2017. Aside from writing, he pursues natural science activities such as rattlesnake hunting, fishing, and lapidary arts, along with more eclectic interests such as cryptozoology and Fortean studies that often inspire his fiction and screenplays.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and a Master of Business Administration, both from Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Aside from horror fiction, he has written academic articles published by the Society for the Advancement of Management, the Academy of Finance, and the Journal of Cryptozoology.
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Underworld Games by Jonathan D. Stiffy – Launches 14th May 2021
/by Black Hare PressTo start a piece of work, it takes what I call a glimpse. A glimpse of something that is interesting, unique, and worth building a story around. Being a horror writer, for me that glimpse is usually something terrible. But that terrible glimpse leads to the idea for a suitable protagonist, antagonist, and goal. Then details of the story follow. For Underworld Games, that glimpse was of a kid in a flood tunnel vault in pitch darkness tracing the word “Loser” that was carved on his forehead, and then the terror when he saw light down the tunnel, and footsteps coming towards him. So, that is how this story starts—with the glimpse of terror.
Jonathan D. Stiffy
/by Black Hare PressJonathan D. Stiffy lives with his wife, Jessica, and daughters, Taylor, Madelyn, and Emma in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. There he works as a plastics engineer by day and is a horror culture enthusiast by night.
Underworld Games by Jonathan D. Stiffy
/by Black Hare PressZach Perry is in trouble.
He got caught up in a most dangerous game in the flood tunnels beneath the streets of Las Vegas—a high-stakes game he played and lost.