Wayne Kyle Spitzer (born July 15, 1966) is an American author and low-budget horror filmmaker[1] from Spokane, Washington. He is the writer/director of the short horror film Shadows in the Garden,[2][3] as well as the author of Flashback,[4][5][6] a horror novel published in 1993. Spitzer's non-genre writing has appeared in subTerrain Magazine: "Strong Words for a Polite Nation"[7][8][9][10] and Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History.[11]

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Wayne Kyle Spitzer
Author, artist, filmmaker, academic, and pop culture commentator.
Born	Wayne Kyle Spitzer (1966-07-15) July 15, 1966 (age 56) Spokane, Washington, United States
Occupation	Author, artist, film director, producer, screenwriter
Years active	1987–present
Spouse	Trinh Ngoc Ho

Spitzer was highly active in Spokane's underground filmmaking scene from 1994 to 2005.[12][13][14][15] His notable projects include Dead of Night,[16][17][18] a Spokane-area (cable TV) broadcast venture, Don't Look Up,[19][20] and a feature-length compilation, Monstersdotcom,[21] including Shadows in the Garden[2] and Last Stop Station.[22][23][24][25]

Spitzer has taught creative writing at Corbin Art Center[26] and Airway Heights Corrections Center.[27] He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing from Eastern Washington University, a Bachelor of English from Gonzaga University, and an Associate in Applied Science degree in Television Production from Spokane Falls Community College.

Spitzer's recent work includes The Ferryman Pentalogy,[28][29] comprising Comes a Ferryman, The Tempter and the Taker, The Pierced Veil, Black Hole, White Fountain, To the End of Ursathrax, and The X-Ray Rider Trilogy,[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42] along with Algernon Blackwood's The Willows: A Scriptment.[43]

References

External links

• [1]
• https://www.inlander.com/spokane/dark-shadows/Content?oid=2175111
• Wayne Spitzer at IMDb
• Goodreads entry¹
• Spitzerkumpon Channel on YouTube
• Spitzerkumpon YouTube Profile
• Indieflix.com
• Curriculum Vitae
• Teaching
• Teaching
• Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope Magazine

Further reading

• Interview: Adapting 'The Willows'
• Dead men stalk airwaves, Spokesman-Review Article, The Region, front of page
• Dead men stalk airwaves, Spokesman-Review Article, The Region, article continued