Crackimals

Gary Lee Vincent was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and is an accomplished author, musician, actor, producer, director, and entrepreneur. In 2010, his horror novel Darkened Hills was selected as the 2010 Book of the Year winner by Foreword Reviews Magazine and became the pilot novel for DARKENED - THE WEST VIRGINIA VAMPIRE SERIES, which encompasses the novels Darkened Hills, Darkened Hollows, Darkened Waters, Darkened Souls, Darkened Minds and Darkened Destinies. 

He has also authored the bizarro thriller Passageway, a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft, When the Bedposts Shake, an erotic horror, THE BLACK CIRCLE CHRONICLES, a five-part mini-series that includes the books Prove Your Love, Strange New Powers, Night Wings, Sheep Amongst Wolves, and Lord of the Birds, and the CRACKIMALS series of horror-comedies (featuring titles Crackcoon, Crackodile, Cracksquatch, Crackroaches, Crackadillo, and Crackaroo) in association with Director Brad Twigg and screenwriter Todd Martin of Fuzzy Monkey Films, who is doing their film counterparts.

Gary co-authored the novel Belly Timber with John Russo, Solon Tsangaras, Dustin Kay and Ken Wallace, and co-authored the novel Attack of the Melonheads with Bob Gray and Solon Tsangaras.  

As an actor, Gary has appeared in over a hundred feature films, including Prove Your Love, Faded Memories, Midnight, and My Uncle John is a Zombie, and multiple television series, including House of Cards, Mindhunter, The Walking Dead, and Stranger Things. You can also find Gary in the motion picture adaptation of Crackcoon, playing Jonathan, the forest ranger.

As a director, Gary got his directorial debut with A Promise to Astrid. He has also directed the films Desk Clerk, Dispatched, Midnight, Godsend, Strange Friends, and Shoulder Down: Road to Redemption.