Thomas Reeder grew up outside Philadelphia, addicted to late night B movies, "Shock Theater" and any silent film that would occasionally surface. A lifelong love of all things cinematic led to a BFA in Film at New York's School of Visual Arts and an MA in Cinema Studies at New York University. Concurrent with this was an immersion in the written word from a disparate array of authors of mysteries that ran the gamut from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and S.S. Van Dine, to Mickey Spillane and Lawrence Block. Mr. Reeder's biography of film producer Ben Pivar - "Stop Yellin' Ben Pivar and the Horror, Mys...