J.F. Gonzalez

J.F. Gonzalez (1964–2014) was an American horror and thriller author best known for the extreme-horror novel Survivor and the creature-feature Clickers series, co-written with Mark Williams and Brian Keene.

A key figure in the splatterpunk movement, he published more than thirty novels under his own name and several pseudonyms, along with over 200 short stories, some selected for Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies.

In the early 1990s he edited the horror magazines Iniquities and Phantasm, and he frequently collaborated with authors including Brian Keene and Wrath James White. He died in 2014 of complications from cancer.