Preston Fassel

Preston Fassel is an award winning writer, journalist, and screenwriter. He was born in Houston, Texas and grew up between St. Charles, Missouri and Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. In 2004, he was a recipient of the President's Volunteer Service Award, Gold Level, for work conducted with the Broken Arrow Police Department evidence room. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Lone Star College with an AA in 2009 and Cum Laude from Sam Houston State University with a BS in 2011. His work has appeared in FANGOIRA, Rue Morgue magazine, Screem magazine, and on Cinedump.com. He authored "Remembering Vanessa," the first published biography of British horror star Vanessa Howard, printed in the Spring 2014 issue of Screem Magazine. From 2015 to 2017, he served as the assistant editor of Cinedump.com; in 2017 he joined Cinestate as story editor and staff writer for FANGORIA magazine. His first novel, Our Lady of the Inferno, was published to widespread critical acclaim, being named one of the ten best horror books of the year by Bloody Disgusting and winning the 2019 Independent Book Publisher Gold Medal for Horror.