![]() ![]() ![]() He lives and works in Los Angeles and Bangkok. His recent operatic adaptation of the Ramayana, "Ayodhya", was covered in the international press. His radical Asian reinterpretation of Wagner's "Ring Cycle" merited a full page in the New York Times. In the 21st Century Somtow returned to Thailand where he founded the Bangkok Opera. ![]() His semi-autobiographical novel Jasmine Nights was published in 1994. Other horror novels include Moon Dance and Darker Angels his chilling novella The Bird Catcher won the World Fantasy Award. His 1984 novel Vampire Junction, which critics called ancestral to the Splatterpunk Movement, was elected to the "40 All-Time Greatest Horror Books" by the Horror Writers Association. His first career was in music, but in the late 1970s he began to publish a series of innovative science fiction stories in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, earning him the John W. Somtow was born in Thailand and educated at Eton and Cambridge. The Crow is a supernatural superhero comic book series created by James OBarr revolving. ![]()
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