Danel Olson
Danel Olson | |
|---|---|
| Education | B.A., English and Religion; M.A., English; PhD, English Studies |
| Alma mater | University of Stirling |
| Occupation | College Professor |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Employer | Lone Star College |
| Known for | Analyses of Monsters, Ghosts, Demons, Zombies, Video Games, Comics, Film, Fantasy, Gothic, and Terrorism in popular culture |
| Title | Professor of English and Film |
Danel Olson is an American editor and fiction anthologist, video game analyst, historian of comics and genre films/studios, and scholar of Gothic and terrorism literature. His thirteen books have been finalists for the Bram Stoker Award thrice, winning a Shirley Jackson Award and World Fantasy Award twice.
His film companion books are on William Friedkin, Stanley Kubrick, and Guillermo del Toro, the latter of which was a collaboration with the director, and featured with del Toro's installation at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, and Minneapolis Institute of Art entitled, "At Home with Monsters". His conversations with filmmaking inventors, including Garrett Brown and movie crews and actors from North America, South America, and Europe, appear in print journals, and magazines, books. Olson also routinely interviews assorted novelists and comics’ artists for print venues as both retrospectives and glimpses at new releases, including Richard Sala, Neil Gaiman, Nancy Collins, David Mitchell, Terry Dowling twice, Patrick McGrath twice, and Joyce Carol Oates thrice.