The Burning

Overview: Bentley Little was born in Arizona in 1960 to parents Lawrence and Roseanne Little. He has worked as a newspaper reporter/photographer, video arcade attendant, window washer, rodeo gate keeper, telephone book delivery man, library aide, typesetter, furniture mover, sales clerk, technical writer and of course author (though not necessarily in that order!). He wrote The Revelation for his master's thesis. It went on to become his first published novel in 1990. It also won him the 1990 Bram Stoker Award. Bentley is a prolific writer who has penned over a dozen horror novels, over 100 short stories and nearly 300 articles and essays. He has also had one of his best short stories, The Washingtonians, made into an episode of the television program Masters of Horror.