Monteleone's four collections of selected short fiction are "Dark Stars and Other Illuminations" (1981), "Rough Beasts and Other Mutations" (2003),"The Little Brown Book of Bizarre Stories" (2004), and "Fearful Symmetries" (2004).. His novels, "The Resurrectionist" and "Night of Broken Souls", global thrillers from Warner Books, received rave reviews and have been optioned for films. "The Reckoning" (2000), a sequel to "The Blood of the Lamb", and "The Eyes of the Virgin" (2002) have been published by Forge. His omnibus volume of essays about the book and film industries entitled "The Mothers And Fathers Italian Association" was recently published by Borderlands Press (www.borderlandspress.com). He is also the author of the bestseller, "The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Novel" (2004), and is currently at work on his latest novel, an historical thriller. His books and stories have been translated into twelve foreign languages.