Daniel Kraus was an associate producer on The Shape of Water, which was released to theaters in 2018 and features a science fiction theme with a researcher forming a unique and unlikely bond with a creature that may just not be from this world. The first was in 2015 with the release of their fantasy book Trollhunters, and the second collaboration came in 2018 for The Shape of Water. From there he came out with the above mentioned Rotters and followed that up with Scowler and two works with Guillermo Del Toro, the famous film maker and celebrity. He first became a fiction novelist in print for the first time with the release of The Monster Variations back in 2009. His writing has made it into over a dozen different language translations around the globe. His videos have done well and his feature films include Sheriff, which premiered on Independent Lens on PBS in 2006, and Musician. Before becoming a published author, he also worked in film. He has received several nominations and recognition for his work.ĭaniel was born in Midland, Michigan. He has also received an Odyssey Award for his book Rotters and his book Scowler. He has made several top book lists including the top ten books of 2015 from Entertainment Weekly for his Finch series.

Ry's own fear that he might become his father is just as credible, and Kraus's masterful raising-of-stakes makes this into the sort of diaster you can't possibly look away from.Daniel Kraus is an American author of fiction. Marvin is one of the great monsters of literature, a figure of immense, credible terror and savagery. As we learn more about Ry's past, we discover the sort of monster his father was, and before long, there's the threat that the monster might return - or that Ry might become the monster. The novel opens with many ticking bombs: an impending meteor shower, the imminent abandonment of the farm, the stretched-to-breaking relationship between Ry and his mother. The second is Ry's father, Marvin, who has been in prison ever since he nearly murdered Ry, eight years before, when the boy was only 11, in a horrific encounter that has left Ry emotionally and physically scarred. The first is Ry, a gangly, awkward farm-boy who lives with his mother and little sister on a dying farm that is on the brink of bankruptcy. Indeed, it's the two characters at the center of Scowler that give it its punch.

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