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Walter Greatshell
Welcome to the mind of Walter Greatshell. Just about
everything you find on his website has been drawn, painted,
written, or otherwise created by him. The only exceptions
are the cover art for his novel Xombies and Xombies:
Apocalypse Blues, which are by Berkley/Ace, and the layout
of the site itself, for which he thanks Brian Greene of bgfolio.
The rest is mine, all mine.
Enter. Explore! Surf the inner wallpaper of his tortured
psyche. And if you should happen to be a publisher, film
producer, or anyone else with a professional interest in him
or his work, welcome! He'd love to hear from you.
But who, you may ask, is Walter Greatshell?
To answer that question, we must go back a long way...all
the way to 1962. To the time of the Beatles and Ed Sullivan
and John F. Kennedy. Back to the sleepy little hamlet of
Torrance, California, where in the hushed maternity ward of
Harbor General Hospital, a new life is about to be born...
Etcetera etcetera — fast forward to the present.
Nowadays he lives with his wife and son in Providence, Rhode
Island. When not writing satirical horror novels a la
Xombies, he dabbles in freelance illustration (with an eye
to creating dark children's books, comics or graphic
novels), humorous nonfiction (a throwback to his early days
as a freelance journalist and arts critic), and stage acting
(most recently in local productions of Oedipus Rex and Karel
Capek's R.U.R.). Which is to say He's unemployed. The last
real job he had was as a graveyard-shift nuclear-submarine
technician, and before that he was the general manager of a
Providence landmark: the Avon Cinema. What he does next is
anyone's guess.
Seriously, got any suggestions?
Books:
 Xombies: Apocalypso, March 2011
Mad Skills, January 2011
Xombies: Apocalypticon, March 2010
Xombies: Apocalypse Blues, October 2009
Xombies, August 2004
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