John Wooley
Encyclopedia
John Steven Wooley is a prolific author
with titles in several different formats and genres. Simultaneously a novelist, screenwriter
, journalist
, and radio
personality, Wooley also has been responsible for the creation of several comic series, a documentary
, and is a regularly contributing columnist to the horror
magazine Fangoria. He has also been an entertainment writer and country music critic for the Tulsa World
and is a member of the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
Wooley still publishes books on a regular basis, despite the demands he faces as a college professor
. He is popular with his students, who take his classes as often as they are offered.
Wooley is a leading expert on Hollywood-based detective characters, including the pulp character Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective
.
Wooley traveled to Romania in the fall of 1985. He spent Halloween at Bran Castle, also known as Dracula's Castle, and reported on his experiences for a local radio station.
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
with titles in several different formats and genres. Simultaneously a novelist, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
, journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, and radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
personality, Wooley also has been responsible for the creation of several comic series, a documentary
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
, and is a regularly contributing columnist to the horror
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...
magazine Fangoria. He has also been an entertainment writer and country music critic for the Tulsa World
Tulsa World
Tulsa World is the daily newspaper for the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is the primary newspaper for the northeastern and eastern portions of Oklahoma, and is the second-most widely circulated newspaper in the state, after The Oklahoman. It was founded in 1905 and remains an independent newspaper,...
and is a member of the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
Wooley still publishes books on a regular basis, despite the demands he faces as a college professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
. He is popular with his students, who take his classes as often as they are offered.
Wooley is a leading expert on Hollywood-based detective characters, including the pulp character Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective
Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective
Dan Turner, also known as the Hollywood Detective, was a fictional private detective created by Robert Leslie Bellem. His first appearance was in the second issue of the pulp magazine Spicy Detective, dated June 1934, and he continued to appear regularly in that magazine until its demise in...
.
Wooley traveled to Romania in the fall of 1985. He spent Halloween at Bran Castle, also known as Dracula's Castle, and reported on his experiences for a local radio station.
Comic books
- "Miracle Squad" (1986–89)
- "Uncanny Man-Frog" (1987)
- "Twilight Avenger" (1987–89)
- "Plan Nine from Outer Space" (graphic novel) (1990)
- "Plan Nine from Outer Space: Thirty Years Later" (1991)
Non-fiction books
- Voices From the Hill: The Story of Oklahoma Military Academy (2005)
- Big Book of Biker Flicks (2005)
- From the Blue Devils to Red Dirt: The Colors of Oklahoma Music (2006)
Novels
- Old Fears (1982, with Ron Wolfe)
- Dark Within (2000)
- Awash in the Blood (2001)
- Ghost Band (2006)
Collections
- Doctor Coffin: The Living Dead Man, by Perley Poore SheehanPerley Poore SheehanPerley Poore Sheehan was an American film writer, novelist and film director...
(Off-Trail Publications, 2007) - Super-Detective Flip Book: Two Complete Novels, Victor RousseauVictor Rousseau EmanuelVictor Rousseau Emanuel was a writer of pulp fiction who was active in Great Britain and the U.S. in the first half of the 20th century who wrote under the pen names "Victor Rousseau" and "H. M. Egbert." After an early career as a reporter for the New York World and as an editor of Harper's...
, Robert Leslie BellemRobert Leslie BellemRobert Leslie Bellem was a prolific American pulp magazine writer, best known for his creation of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. He was born in either 1894 or 1902, and died in 1968. Before becoming a writer he worked in Los Angeles as a newspaper reporter, radio announcer and film extra...
and W.T. Ballard (with John McMahan) (Off-Trail Publications, 2008)