Shaun Hutson is a writer of novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

s including 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...

 novels and dark urban thrillers. A native of Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

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, England

England

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, Hutson now lives and writes in Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes , sometimes abbreviated MK, is a large town in Buckinghamshire, in the south east of England, about north-west of London. It is the administrative centre of the Borough of Milton Keynes...

, Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan home county in South East England. The county town is Aylesbury, the largest town in the ceremonial county is Milton Keynes and largest town in the non-metropolitan county is High Wycombe....

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He is the author of Slugs

Slugs (novel)

Slugs is a 1982 horror novel written by Shaun Hutson. In 1988 it was adapted as an American horror film of the same name. In this book, carnivorous slugs go on a rampage.They Slime... They ooze... They kill......

, the basis for the film of the same title

Slugs (film)

Slugs, muerte viscosa is a 1988 American horror film based on the novel Slugs by Shaun Hutson. It was banned in the Australian state of Queensland until the early-'90s when the Queensland Censorship Board was disbanded....

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He wrote a screenplay for The Figgis Brothers (Jason Figgis

Jason Figgis

Jason Figgis is a film director.He has worked on a variety of programmes for The Discovery Channel, Sky One, Sky Arts, RTÉ , SVT KSM , and Spentzos Films .-Links:* entry on IFTN...

 & Jonathan Figgis

Jonathan Figgis

A Co-Founder and Director of award-winning film production company October Eleven Pictures, Film Director and Producer Jonathan Figgis worked in the animation industry for a number of years, contributing on award-winning independent animated shorts as well as television series’ for the...

) for their company October Eleven Pictures

October Eleven Pictures

October Eleven Pictures is an Irish Production Company based in Dublin, Ireland. It is a company dedicated to the development and encouragement of new and existing talent in the arenas of film, design and music. October Eleven Pictures was set up by The Figgis Brothers, Jonathan Figgis and Jason...

' upcoming feature film 'Box'. Currently in preproduction, shooting is set to commence late Spring 2009.

External links

• Shaun Hutson at Worldcat
  WorldCat
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• The official Shaun Hutson website, run by a fan with the input of the author himself