News

The big news is that FULCI COMICS are coming! The bigger news is that I'm publishing them myself!

Here's a teaser glimpse of Romano's upcoming new publishing venture, which brings his most celebrated "lost" book back to life!

Julia rises again, for the last time, with a new face and a new mission. Hope you've enjoyed the ride.

Julia's finest hour. And her darkest hour. All in one.

The awesome, terrifying, cautionary tale of sci-fi's most notorious space babe continues...

The most amazing trailer collections of all time will blow your eyes right out of your mind!

An all new feature film from Charlie Band, master of 80's video sleaze. And a swell new teaser poster from little old me!

The Epic Saga of Science-Fiction's most awesome B-movie babe continues!

My wild new multimedia project makes its grand debut right here and over at at Dread Central, too!

Some old "rejected" art gets a new lease on life! Check it out!

Check her out, boys. She's coming....

WHY IS THIS MAN UPSET? My critically acclaimed short story collection is coming back into print, ten years after it was first released, just in time for Christmas!

NY Times Best-selleing author of of E.T. The Extraterrestrial and A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 4 chimes in with a killer capsule review of my brand new novel!

Some really awesome stories from my wretched past, only at DREAD CENTRAL!

BLOG OVERDRIVE at The Express, as we count down the last days to my new novel!

Stephen Romano presents a gripping and edgy tale of sweet revenge . . .

ALL NEW GUEST BLOG CELEBRATING THE KINGDOM!!!

Stephen's ALL NEW WEEKLY COLLUM featuring The Kingdom and DEAD BABIES! Only at DREAD CENTRAL!

More Kingdom madness, celebrating the arrival of my new novel!

My new novel takes a look at the world we live in and asks the burning question: WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG? The answer ain't pretty, kids!

Our last week got blessed by the hand of the MAN HIMSELF. What an awesome way to go out, folks!

Not quite done! This week, ONLY AT DREAD CENTRAL, sudden death on RETRO 13! Thanks for watching, kids!

OUR FINAL WEEK, featuring the legendary iconic PHANTOM, only at DREAD CENTRAL!

ONLY AT DREAD CENTRAL this week, the ultimate slasher dream team!

Celebrity endorsements. Gotta love em, man!

Hey, what's that on TV? That's total COOLNESS from Romano's acclaimed alterno-world of Fax-ploitation madness.

Some cool posters From SOMETHING WIERD and FULL MOON, painted from a wheelchair!

The official prequel to M. Night Shyamalan's wild new TV show and Blake Crouch's shocking series of novels, by none other than Yours Truly!

It takes some heavy Hollywood muscle to bring action hero ELROY COFFIN to the big screen. These man bring the thunder, and then some. The most acclaimed thriller novel of the year will soon be the most awesome motion picture of the decade! (Calm, down, Stephen.)

Wherever books are sold, you'll find action hero ELROY COFFIN, in the most acclaimed shoot-em-up extravaganza of the year!

It has a scene in it where a guy runs straight at a car doing 90 and jumps over it. It has a bit where an entire hotel lobby is reduced to rubble in mere seconds from the oily sweat-soaked barrels of heavy caliber automatic weapons. It's also got a love story that's pretty cool. And the bad guy's name is David Hartman. So BUY YOUR COPY NOW!

ELROY COFFIN, the scrappiest literary action hero since Jack Reacher, gets a BIG PUSH from the premiere publisher of paperbacks!

Your life is meaningless if you haven't seen this movie, or the awesome poster that I did for it!

It's a twisted film. It's in theaters soon. I totally did the poster.

The new Don Coscarelli film is even way cooler than you thought it was!

Just a five spot for coolest new action thriller around! Less than the price of a movie, and It's waaaaay cooler!

Come meet me in person and get a book signed!

This one means a whole lot to me, because one of my key inspirations as a writer is Andrew Vachss, and I've been compared to him here. Here is the review in it's entirety. Hot damn!

"The pace never slackens in screenwriter Romano’s superior debut thriller . . . Few will anticipate the plot twists or the extremely satisfying resolution . . ."

My debut thriller from Gallery Books at Simon and Schuster is getting heavy advance praise from some real heavy hitters. To say that I am shocked and amazed would be a galactic understatement. I'm a little speechless, actually. So I'll just the boys speak for me:

"A high-voltage blast! Stephen Romano's action scenes are light years ahead of the pack, fueled by muscular prose, terrifying villains, and Elroy Coffin—a protagonist for the ages. RESURRECTION EXPRESS is one of the finest examples I've encountered of noir's evolution into the 21st century."

—Blake Crouch, acclaimed author of Run, Snowbound, and Abandon

"RESURRECTION EXPRESS is a rip snortin' white knuckle ride.A page-turner that sinks its teeth into you and won't let go. Stephen Romano has created a meal you will want to swallow whole—it's that hard to put down. His damaged protagonist, Elroy Coffin, is a compelling computer freak with criminal skills who you can't help but root for. A savage and vicious little tale that fans of Don Winslow will lap up. Highly recommended!"

--Don Coscarelli, award-winning director of cult classics PHANTASM, BUBBA HO TEP, and THE BEASTMASTER

BLACK LIGHT by Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan and Stephen Romano

Gallery Books at Simon and Schuster have announced that my new high octane thriller novel RESURRECTION EXPRESS will bow in mid-September of 2012 in hardback. I’m really thrilled to be at Gallery Books because they do Stephen King now, and the imprint has a great pedigree. They were Pocket Books before they became Gallery, and they’ve got a lot of my heroes, like Don Winslow and James O’ Barr. Simon and Schuster was a great place to go after getting my feet wet at Little Brown, where I did BLACK LIGHT. But that book was a collaboration, and supernatural horror action stuff. This new one is a little more serious, a little less comic book. It has the same awesome narrative drive, but I’ve taken it to whole new level—and, of course, this one is all mine.

I've just finished my commitment to BLACK LIGHT, a suspense-action novel written in collaboration with PATRICK MELTON and MARCUS DUNSTAN, the scribes responsible for the last four films in the SAW series. Begun in November of 2010, the BLACK LIGHT project was completed in record time, which meant no rest for the wicked on a brutal schedule . . . but the results are wild and epic, coming to a bookstore near you on OCTOBER 5th 2011, just in time for the Halloween season!

After thirty years, ROGER CORMAN’S CULT CLASSICS series presents the definitive video release of Luigi’s Cozzi’s notorious Italian STAR WARS/BARBARELLA mash-up, the one-and-only holy grail of “high class” exploitation films, STARCRASH! I am the co-producer of this lavish TWO DISC SPECIAL EDITION, featuring an all new high definition digital transfer of the film from the vaulted negative and a Dolby 5.1 soundtrack to rock your home speakers, re-mastered from the film’s original 4-track Dolby Stereo sound masters. I am a "known authority" of sorts on STARCRASH, having written the definitive “making of” book about the film (which was ultimately never published due to legal problems), and I brought some of that of knowledge and rare memorabilia to this special edition DVD set.