Victor Heck, born David Nordhaus, July 20, 1967, in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

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, is an American

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 editor and horror fiction

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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...

 author whose novels and short stories are published under his pen name. He is the former owner/operator of DarkTales Publications. In 1999, Heck’s The Asylum Volume 1: The Psycho Ward was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.

Nordhaus's DarkTales published books such as J. Michael Straczynski

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Joseph Michael Straczynski , known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or JMS, is an American writer and television producer. He works in films, television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is a playwright, a former journalist,...

's Tribulations (ISBN 1-930997-0-35), Mort Castle

Mort Castle

Mort Castle is a horror author and writing teacher, with more than 350 short stories and a dozen books to his credit, including Cursed Be the Child and The Strangers. Castle's first novel was published in 1967. Since then he has had pieces published in all sorts of places ranging from traditional...

's Moon on the Water (ISBN 0-9672029-9-X), Yvonne Navarro

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's DeadTimes (ISBN 0-967202-9-57), and Robert Weinberg's Dial Your Dreams and Other Nightmares (ISBN 1-930997-11-6).

In 2007 Nordhaus began to shift gears by making a move into film in various capacities. He is President of independent film company Eris Films, LLC. Eris Films' short film Midget Chainsaw Zombie., which Nordhaus wrote the script and dialogue for, won the Troma Team Award for Best Short Film at the 2007 Kansas International Film Festival - a competition which was judged and awarded by Lloyd Kaufman

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 of Troma Entertainment

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. In April 2008 Nordhaus worked with director Steve Balderson

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 and Dikenga Films on the movie Watch Out (film)

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, based on the novel by Joseph Suglia

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-Career:In 2008, Suglia wrote the screenplay for Steve Balderson’s film Watch Out in collaboration with the director.The film, which was based on Suglia’s novel Watch Out, starred Matt Riddlehoover, Peter Stickles, and Victor Heck...

, as a production assistant and performed a small role as The Priest in the film.