CONFIRMED REPORTS

JOSHUA GEE grew up in a small attic in Cranford, New Jersey. The attic walls had many eyes, and the trees outside his window had fierce, grabby-handed branches that dripped with the blood of a hundred-thousand victims. An unhealthy child, Gee spent most of his free time debating the difference between fact and fiction with his dangerously thin teddy bear, Clyde.

Gee enjoyed learning but disliked school. As a teen, he was banished from two high schools in three years, but soon after, he outsmarted a boarding school in Massachusetts and graduated.

Triumphant at last, he moved to New York City, where he achieved top marks in Journalism at New York University and later obtained a master's degree in Sociology and Education at Columbia University Teachers College.

By day, he edits terrifying books and websites. By night, he is Chief Investigator of the Unexplained at a secure, undisclosed location somewhere in New York City.

UNCONFIRMED REPORTS

The author's main literary influences are Philip Pullman, R.L. Stine, Maurice Sendak, Neil Gaiman, the Cryptkeeper, and Nine Inch Nails.

Investigator Gee is terrified of sunlight, water, full moons, ticks, dust mites, Lindsay Lohan, ragweed, mold spores, cat dander, heights, and towns without pharmacies.

Citing the author's disappearance in the final chapter of Encyclopedia Horrifica, many believe that his first book will also be his last. However, blog entries posted at EnHo_000 suggest that Gee is still alive — or, at the very least, still undead.