J.C. Maçek III is an experienced author and journalist, having written thousands of articles on entertainment and a series of novels, beginning with 2016’s Seven Days to Die. He is the producer of the 2018 film [CARGO] as well as the author of the film’s tie-in novel. His other novels include The Antagonist and the upcoming Badlands. He is the curator and editor of Symptom of the Universe: A Horror Tribute to Black Sabbath, an anthology of short stories and novellas inspired by the music and lyrics of every era of Black Sabbath. His short fiction and poetry has appeared in Weird Fiction Quarterly, Sleeve of Hearts, The Devil’s Playground, Morsus Vitae, The Beauty in Darkness and many more anthologies and periodicals. The Black Dahlia is his fifth novel and his most critically acclaimed to date. He resides in Southern California with a veritable zoo of pets

