Will Viharo

Will Viharo is an East Bay/Seattle-based author who has published nine novels. Seven of his novels are neo-noir (or neo-pulp ) works which blend elements of surrealism, gore, violent sex, and horror.

His body of writing includes the Vic Valentine series (Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me, Fate Is My Pimp/Romance Takes A Raincheck, and I Lost My Heart In Hollywood/Diary of a Dick), Lavender Blonde, and Down A Dark Alley. Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me, originally published by Wild Card Press in 1993, was republished in August 2013 by Gutter Press, in anticipation of the movie adaption, which Christian Slater will direct and star in.[1]

Viharo, who was born in New York City on April 2, 1963, has also written two supernatural horror works: A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge and Freaks That Carry Your Luggage Up To Your Room.

From 1997 to 2012, Viharo, under the name Will the Thrill, regularly hosted Thrillville, a series of B-movie showings, with his wife Monica "the Tiki Goddess" Cortes Viharo.[2] The locations of these stagings included the Parkway Speakeasy Theater in Oakland, California, which closed in 2009; the Cerrito Theater in El Cerrito, California (now operating under different management); and the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.[3][4]

Viharo's parents named him after William Shakespeare. His mother is a former beauty queen, and his father, Robert Viharo, a B-movie actor.[5]

In April 2014, Viharo and his wife, Monica Cortes Viharo - a college professor - moved from Alameda, California to Seattle, Washington.[6]

On July 24, 2015, Viharo's The Space Needler's Intergalactic Bar Guide, an erotic science fiction book co-authored with Scott Fulks, was published.

In a March 2014 interview, Viharo stated that he was working on short stories - "an unusual form" for him - and would soon be finishing his sixth Vic Valentine novel, then (publicly) untitled.[7] On November 29, 2015, that novel (titled Hard-Boiled Heart) was published.

Just prior this period, actor Christian Slater—who had begun in earnest to adapt Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me for the silver screen—was side-tracked by the success of his first-season television show Mr. Robot.[6]

  1. ^ Tony DuShane (October 23, 2013). "Christian Slater rescues Will Viharo's pulpy novel". SFGate. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
  2. ^ Laura Casey (April 10, 2007). "B movies on the A list with Will Viharo". Inside Bay Area.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference sfbg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Peter Harlaub, Thrillville's Will Viharo takes act to Alameda, SF Gate, July 31, 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
  5. ^ Stefanie Kalem, "Faster, Parkway Guy! Write! Write!", East Bay Express, November 23, 2011. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
  6. ^ a b Evan Carp, "Delayed Movie Inspires Big Changes", SF Gate, December 23, 2015. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
  7. ^ Evan Karp, "The Write Stuff: Will Viharo on Self Therapy and Throwing Out Notes in Bottles", SF Weekly, March 20, 2014. Retrieved August 16, 2017.