Whitley Strieber

Louis Whitley Strieber (born June 13, 1945) is a US writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, which professes to be a non-fictional description of his subjective experiences with non-human entities; see alien abduction. Also for being the inspiration for the blockbuster movie about sudden climate change, "The Day After Tomorrow"

Fiction

Strieber began his career as a novelist with the horror classics The Wolfen (1978) and The Hunger (1981), both of which were later made into movies, followed by the less successful horror novels Black Magic (1982) and The Night Church (1983).

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The Wolfen - 1978 - The Hunger - 1981 - 1982 - 1983

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He then turned to more serious speculative fiction. He wrote Warday (1984), a New York Times bestseller about the dangers of limited nuclear war, and Nature's End (1986), a prophetic novel about environmental apocalypse, both in collaboration with longtime friend James Kunetka. He is also the author Wolf of Shadows (1985), a young adult novel about nuclear winter.

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1984 - New York Times - Nuclear war - 1986 - James Kunetka - 1985 - Nuclear winter

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In 1986, Strieber's fantasy novel Catmagic was published, co-authored with Jonathan Barry, who was billed as an aerospace industry consultant and a practicing witch. In the 1987 paperback edition, Strieber states that Jonathan Barry is fictitious and that he, Strieber, is the sole author of Catmagic. Strieber's personal publishing company, Walker & Collier, is named after two of the characters in Catmagic.

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Later, less successful thrillers by Strieber (all now out of print) include Billy (1990), The Wild (1991), Unholy Fire (1992), and The Forbidden Zone (1993).

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1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993

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In recent years he returned to the vampire saga that began with The Hunger, adding The Last Vampire (2001) and Lilith's Dream (2002) to the storyline.

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2001 - 2002

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