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 thirty years-beginning with his first novel, "Strange Seed" (Everest House, 1978), on half a dozen "Best of the Genre" lists, and culminating, 29 novels later with his newest work, "I am the Bird," a novella to be published in the spring of 2006 by PS Publishing, and the recently released, "A Spider on my Tongue" (NYX Books, January, 2006).

During those decades, he has 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 literature, as well as two sequels-"The Waiting Room" (TOR Books, 1986), and "A Spider on my Tongue," "The Eyes of the Carp" (Cemetery Dance, 2005), which a reviewer at Fangoria Magazine described as "the weirdest book I've ever reviewed," and caused one reviewer to gush, "Among intelligent horror readers, Wright will be remembered as the most effective and original ghost story writer in history," "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, NYC, 2003, also on several "Best of the Genre" lists, and 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 damned net."

T.M. Wright paints (he's done book covers and magazine illustrations), builds paper house music boxes out of his old manuscripts, and writes in Honeoye, NY.