About T.M. Wright
AUTHOR OF THE PEOPLE ON THE ISLAND
T M Wright says, ‘Without the dead, where would we writers be?’ To a large extent, that’s been the guiding theme of his literary output for the past nearly 30 years – beginning with his first novel, Strange Seed (Everest House, 1978), on half a dozen ‘Best of the Genre’ lists, and culminating in his recently-released novellas, I am the Bird, for PS Publishing (UK), and Blue Canoe, also from PS Publishing.
During those decades, 
he’s also written such gems as A Manhattan Ghost Story (TOR, 1984), which spawned a whole new approach to the ghost story, both in movies and in literature, a sequel to this novel (The Waiting Room, TOR, 1986), The Eyes of the Carp (Cemetery Dance, 2005), which a reviewer for Fangoria magazine deemed ‘The weirdest book I’ve ever reviewed,’ Sleepeasy (Victor Gollancz, 1993, Leisure Books, 2001), The School(TOR Books, 1990): “‘This eerie novel maintains a mood as ominous as a low rumble of thunder. Highly recommended,’ said Library Journal, and Cold House (Catalyst Press, 2003), about which novelist Jack Ketchum wrote, ‘Cold House exemplifies what T M Wright is capable of when he’s working at his own singular level of full-tilt boogie – when Wright Gets It Exactly Right, so to speak – when the spell he casts is not just a spell but a goddamn net.’
Wright paints, builds paper houses and music boxes out of old manuscripts, and writes in Lindley, NY (for the time being). His first (and best) editor and critic is his wife, Roxane White-Wright; both she and T M are owned by a pug named Galway, a Labrador retriever named Myrrdin, a Jack Russell terrier named Fionn (look at him cross-eyed and he’ll tear your knee off), and three cats, Weldon, Dylan, and Nilsson.