Sean Hoade is the award-winning author of the novels Ain’t That America, Reviva Las Vegas!, Deadtown Abbey, Darwin’s Dreams, the Cthulhu Attacks! trilogy, the story collection Inappropriate Behavior, the nonfiction book Zombie School Confidential, and Hoade’s Penny Dreadfuls, a new line of books reintroducing the late-18th Century penny dreadful "novelette" form to modern readers. He lives in Las Vegas.