in order to score the film and write its title track. The film was released and received high praise at film festivals and conventions worldwide. This talent to direct with such a clear and original vision has blossomed into the likelihood of future short films for Gris Grimly's Mad Creator Productions, as well as ventures in making music videos. In the summer of 2008, Grimly produced and directed a music video for the Texas-based band Ghoultown. This video, although produced on a shoestring budget, was filmed partially at the legendary Magic Castle in Hollywood, and it starred Cassandra Peterson as her cult persona, Elvira. In May 2012, Grimly held the Baby Tattoo Books reading of the Spectrum Fantastic Art in Kansas City. In May 2012, it was announced that Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson would co-direct a stop-motion animated adaptation of Grimly's Pinocchio, with Grimly serving as an executive producer. After years in development hell, the film, titled Pinocchio, was released by Netflix in late-2022. In 2013, HarperCollins released Grimly's graphic adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. On NPR, in October 2013, Grimly discussed his personal connection with characters in the story, particularly Frankenstein's monster. In the interview he revealed that, at the age of five, he was seriously burned on his back and 80 percent of his skin. He recounted that he "grew up feeling kind of like a monster" and that attracted him to the Frankenstein story. Books As author and illustrator Where Madness Reigns: The Art of Gris Grimly (Baby Tattoo, 2009) Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes trilogy (Baby Tattoo) Wicked Nursery Rhymes III (2017) Wicked Nursery Rhymes II (2006) Wicked Nursery Rhymes (2003) Little Jordan Ray's Muddy Spud (Baby Tattoo, 2005) As illustrator only Tales from the Brothers Grimm by the Brothers Grimm (Balzer + Bray, 2016) The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2015) Guys Read: Terrifying Tales (Walden Pond Press, 2015) A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (Balzer + Bray, 2015) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Balzer + Bray, 2011) The Death of Yorik Mortwell by Stephen Messer (Random House, 2011) Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Death and Dementia (Simon & Schuster, 2009) Sipping Spiders Through a Straw: Campfire Songs for Monsters by Kelly Dipucchio (Scholastic Press, 2008) The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, 2008) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (Simon & Schuster, 2007) Santa