John Stanley is author of THE CREATURE FEATURES MOVIE GUIDE series (six editions in all) and the autobiography I WAS A TV HORROR HOST (2007). For six years (1979-84) he was host of CREATURE FEATURES at Channel 2 KTVU in Oakland, CA. This is the same series begun by Bob Wilkins, who was host from 1971-78.  Stanley was an entertainment writer for 33 years with the San Francisco Chronicle, and has just written THE GANG THAT SHOT UP HOLLYWOOD, a forthcoming collection of his San Francisco Chronicle interviews with such action icons as Clint Eastwood, James Stewart, Chuck Norris, Robert Mitchum, Karl Malden and Stacy Keach, as well as a bevy of well-rounded femme fatales right out of Eddie Muller's dark world: Lauren Bacall, Jane Russell, Ann Savage, Marie Windsor, Evelyn Keyes, Anne Francis, Coleen Gray, Carroll Baker and many others. Illustrated with more than 700 photographs, plus 12 caricatures by leading cartoonist Jim Hummel and 5 illustrations by Dixie Dellamorto.  This book will be released in the summer of 2011.  Stanley also has produced many DVDs including THE BEST OF JOHN STANLEY, JOHN STANLEY ON THE LOOSE, I WAS A TV HORROR HOST (a companion documentary to his book) and JOHN STANLEY MEETS JACK THE RIPPER-AND 25 OTHER DEADLY ENCOUNTERS.