| 词条 | Stephen Volk |
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Early life and workVolk was born and raised in Pontypridd, Wales.[1] Volk has stated his interest in horror was triggered by watching the TV drama The Stone Tape by Nigel Kneale, and the film Don't Look Now by Nicolas Roeg.[2] He studied at Lanchester Polytechnic in Coventry, and Bristol University.[1] Volk then worked as an advertising copywriter before becoming a full-time writer. Volk's first produced work was Ken Russell's film Gothic in 1986. Volk also wrote a script, Horror Movie, for Goldcrest Films that was never made due to Goldcrest's collapse.[2] GhostwatchHis most famous work is Ghostwatch, a controversial drama shown on BBC1 on Halloween 1992.[4] It is commonly misrepresented as a hoax documentary, but this was never the intention. It was originally planned as a six-part series for the BBC. However, the producer of the series, Ruth Baumgarten, didn't believe it had commercial viability. Stephen reworked the script so that everything would be set "Like episode six" and repitched it as a 90-minute live broadcast drama on behalf of BBC's Screen One drama segment. Ruth accepted the new format.[5][4] Other workVolk's TV work often involves the supernatural and the paranormal, such as with the ITV1 thriller series Afterlife (2005–06). Volk has written fiction in the horror and ghost story genres; some of these stories were collected in the book Dark Corners (2006).[3] In 1995, Volk wrote two serials of the series Ghosts. Volk's fiction often features real people as characters: the novella Whitstable (2013) features the actor Peter Cushing, while Leytonstone (2015) deals with a young Alfred Hitchcock.[1] In 2018, Volk published The Dark Masters Trilogy, an omnibus featuring Whitstable and Leytonstone, as well as a new novella, Netherwood. Netherwood features fictionalised versions of the writer Dennis Wheatley and the occultist Aleister Crowley.[6] Volk also wrote a monthly column about horror for Black Static magazine until the end of 2016.[3] Volk's story "The Chapel of Unrest" was read on stage by actor Jim Broadbent at London's Bush Theatre in 2013.[7] BibliographyNovels and novellas
Short story collections
References and notes1. ^1 2 3 James Rose, "Stephen Volk", in Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy, Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic : Fifty-Four neglected authors, actors, artists and others. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2016 {{ISBN|9781476663142}} (pp.220-3) 2. ^1 2 "Waffling With Horror Writer Stephen Volk" Themoviewaffler.com. Retrieved 04-03-2017. 3. ^1 2 Stephen Jones,The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 24.Hachette UK, 2013. {{ISBN|147210028X}}, (pp. 360-1) 4. ^1 Paul Long, Tim Wall Media Studies: Texts, Production, Context. Routledge, 2014. {{ISBN|9781317860785}} (pp. 150-1) 5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/220/ghostwatch.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-03-24 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007133819/http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/220/ghostwatch.html |archivedate=2008-10-07 |df= }} 6. ^Magdalena Salata, "“[https://diaboliquemagazine.com/but-terrifying-people-was-what-he-did-best-the-dark-masters-trilogy-by-stephen-volk/ But Terrifying People Was What He Did Best”: The Dark Masters Trilogy by Stephen Volk]". Diabolique Magazine, 18 November 2018. Retrieved 6 February 2019. 7. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/mar/06/jim-broadbent-return-to-theatre-bush "Jim Broadbent makes one-off return to the stage."] Matt Trueman. The Guardian, 6 March 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2018. External links
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