Brad SteigerBrad Steiger's current book Real Visitors, Voices from Beyond, and Parallel Dimensions is his 182nd, and the 45th collaboration with his wife Sherry Hansen Steiger. In 1956, Steiger began publishing short stories and articles of mystery and the paranrmal in a wide variety of magazines, including Alfred Hitchcock's, The Saint, Fantastic and Fate. From 1970-'73, his weekly newspaper column, The Strange World of Brad Steiger, was carried domestically in over 80 newspapers and overseas from Bombay to Tokyo. Steiger's first published book-length work was the two volume Monsters, Maidens, and Mayhem: A Pictorial History of Hollywood Film Monsters (1965). The January 2016 issue of UK's Darkside magazine declares these volumes to be the first serious books on horror cinema and names Steiger Horror's First Historian. While Steiger is known primarily for books on the phenomenal, the paranormal, and the spiritual [Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places; Revelation--The Divine Fire; Mysteries of Time and Space, ] he has also written a number of biographies [Judy Garland, Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe, and Greta Garbo. In 1977, Steiger's bestselling biography of the silent screen lover Valentino was made into a motion picture by British director Ken Russell, starring Rudolf Nureyev. In 1978, Steiger co-scripted the documentary film Unknown Powers [with Jack Palance as narrator], winner of the Film Advisory Board's Award of Excellence for 1978. Other awards include: 1974: San Francisco, the Genie, for Metaphysical Writer of the Year. 1977: Philadelphia, the Dani, for Services to Humanity. 1987: Inducted into the Hypnosis Hall of Fame. 1996: Lifetime Achievement Award at the National UFO and Unexplained Phenomena Conference. Steiger has been interviewed and featured in articles in The New York Times, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Sentinel, Baltimore News American, Las Vegas Sun, Minneapolis Tribune, Buffalo Evening News, and many others. Steiger's television appearances include Nightline with Ted Koppel, ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings, NBC Evening News with Tom Brokaw, This Week [with David Brinkley, Sam Donaldson, and Cokie Roberts], Giants: The Myth and the Mystery [The Learning Channel]. Fangs vs. Fiction [A&E]. He has appeared with Sherry on The Joan Rivers Show, Haunted Hollywood [for HBO], Inside Edition, The Unexplained [A&E] and 22 episodes of the television series Could It Be a Miracle? Since 1963, Steiger has been a regular guest on many radio programs in numerous cities throughout the United States, including those of Art Bell, George Knapp, and George Noory Coast to Coast, Erskine Overnight, The Allan Handelman Show, Dave Schrader Darkness Radio, Jim Harold's Reviews, and many, many others. Read More Read Less
