Tim Lucas

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tim Lucas
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	May 30, 1956(1956-05-30)
Age	68
Birthplace	Cincinnati
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Taurus

Tim Lucas Biography

Tim Lucas is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on May 30, 1956 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Lucas was Born from Cincinnati, Ohio, was the sole one child born to Marion Frank Lucas, a typewriter and musician, and her former name was Juanita Grace Wilson. His father passed away six months before his birth on the 14th of November, 1955, from an undiagnosed heart condition at the age of 33. Lucas spent the rest of his life at the home of various caregivers and relatives, and saw his mother who had died only on weekends, and when she would take him to drive-in theatres. After releasing single issues of two fanzines the film critic became a critic and cartoonist for the Norwood High School’s The Mirror newspaper The Mirror while still a freshman. He began professional writing at the age 15 at the time his first articles have been accepted by well-known fantasy film critic Cinefantastique. He worked at one of the bureaus in the midwestern region of the magazine for the following 10 years.

Although Lucas did not graduate from high school, he was successful in submitting an essay to the literary journal of Purdue University’s Modern Fiction Studies on the occasion of the issue in the autumn of 1981, dedicated to British novelist Anthony Burgess. The joke goes that Lucas has described his achievement as having earned him his “honorary doctorate” because his acceptance letter was directed at “Dr. Timothy Lucas.” The article he wrote, The Old Shelley Game: Prometheus and Predestination in Burgess’s Works The article was later published by Modern Critical Views: Anthony Burgess (1987 ISBN 0-87754-776-2) A collection “of the best criticism available upon the novels of Anthony Burgess” according to the words of the director, Harold Bloom.

It was in 1984, while reviewing Betamax and VHS releases for the Chicago-based magazine Video Times, that “Tim pretty much invented video reviewing as a genre distinct from movie reviewing,” innovating the way in which home video releases are generally reviewed today. While other writers at the time preferred to review only the films, without venturing any comment whatsoever on their presentation, Lucas focused on how films were being treated by this new medium: the transfer, the picture cropping, the completeness of the source element. Pleased with his work, the editors of Video Times hired him to edit and co-author a series of twelve paperback video guides published in the summer and winter of 1985 by Signet Books. Of these, he wrote the introductions to all twelve and the entirety of four: Movie Classics, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy and Mystery & Suspense. The books, his first as a published author, were formally credited to “The Editors of Video Times” with Lucas receiving credit only on the copyright pages.

From 1988 to 1992, Lucas contributed a number of comics stories to Stephen R. Bissette’s graphic horror anthology Taboo, including three stories that formed the genesis of his first novel, Throat Sprockets, two (“Throat Sprockets”, “Transylvania mon amour”) illustrated by Mike Hoffman and the last (“The Disaster Area”) drawn by David Lloyd. Lucas’ other Taboo stories were “Sweet Nothings” (illustrated by Simonida Perica-Uth) and “Blue Angel” (illustrated by Stephen Blue). In 2013, he penned an introduction to the first issue of Flesh and Blood, a graphic horror novel serial co-written by Robert Tinnell and Todd Livingston and illustrated by Neil D. Vokes.

Lucas the most recent volume in non-fiction Spirits of the Dead (Histoires Extraordinaires) is a novel-length monograph on The 1968 film anthology, based in the three Edgar Allan Poe tales, produced by Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini.The film was written by Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, and Roger Vad. The book was released in the UK through PS Publishing’s imprint Electric Dreamhouse.

Tim Lucas Net Worth

Tim Lucas is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tim Lucas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Tim Lucas (born May 30 1956) is a film critic, biographer screenwriter, novelist as well as the editor and publisher of the online magazine Video Watchdog.

The first among Lucas’ scripts for film, The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes (co- written with Charlie Largent), a comedy about the making of the film of Roger Corman from 1967. The Trip is currently optioned by Metaluna Productions for director Joe Dante. In October of 2016 The script was featured in an in-person discussion held at the Vista Theater in Los Angeles and was marketed in the form of “The Best Film Never Made.” The event featured Bill Hader as Corman, Roger Corman himself as Roger Today, Ethan Embry as Jack Nicholson, and Claudia O’Doherty as Corman’s long-time secretary Frances Doel. Lucas has since said that he has modified the script into novel, however there is no release date confirmed.

Lucas’ Videodrome, a study of the 1983 David Cronenberg film, inaugurated the new Studies in the Horror Film line from Centipede Press in September 2008. The book is an amalgam of Lucas’ previously unpublished production history, written in 1983, and new chapters encompassing essay, criticism, and personal memoir.

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After completing work on his Bava magnum opus, Lucas ended his decade-long hiatus from fiction with The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula (2005, ISBN 0-7432-4354-4), a complement to Bram Stoker’s Dracula that focuses on the character of Renfield and how the circumstances of his tragic past predisposed him to become the ideal pawn for the Lord of the Undead. The novel was generally overlooked upon publication but can be seen in hindsight as the point of origin for the “mash-up” horror novels that rose to commercial prominence at the end of the decade, for its incorporation of approximately 50 pages of Stoker’s novel into the weave of its original narrative.

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Tim Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Tim Lucas celebrates birthday on May 30 of every year.

Lucas won in three different categories of the 2006 The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards: Best Writer, Best Magazine (Video Watchdog, its fifth annual win in this category) and Best Website (Video WatchBlog). He continued his winning streak as Best Writer in 2007 and 2008; after a two-year gap, he was recognized as such again in 2011 and 2012. In the 2013 Rondo Awards, he won in the category of Best Interview for his “Top 50 Best Sequels” interview with Quentin Tarantino in Video Watchdog #172. Lucas currently holds a record total of 18 Rondo Awards. With his wife and business partner Donna, Lucas was inducted into the Monster Kid Hall of Fame at the 2010 Rondo Awards ceremony in May 2011. The Lucases were additionally honored in 2018 when they were presented with the first, and to date only, Rondo Legacy Award, for publishing Video Watchdog over three decades.