#182: Daniel Kraus - Pay the Piper Writer

This week on the Capes and Tights Podcast, Justin Soderberg welcomes back Daniel Kraus to the program to discuss his latest novel Pay the Piper, co-authored by legendary filmmaker George A. Romero.

Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, television, and film. His latest novel, Whalefall, received a front-cover review in the New York Times Book Review, won the Alex Award, was an L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, and was a Best Book of 2023 from NPR, the New York Times, Amazon, Chicago Tribune, and more.

With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus co-authored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. His also cowrote The Living Dead and Pay the Piper with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. Kraus’s The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly‘s Top 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler), and has appeared multiple times as Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, and more.

As with the release of Whalefall, Kraus partnered with Orono Brewing Company to release a Pay the Piper India Pale Alein Maine.

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