| Victor Heck | |
| Birth Date: | July 20, 1967 |
| Birth Place: | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Occupation: | Novelist, Short story writer, Editor |
| Genre: | Horror fiction |
Victor Heck is the pen name of David Nordhaus, born July 20, 1967 in St. Louis, Missouri, an American editor and horror fiction author. He is the former owner/operator of DarkTales Publications. In 1999, Heck's The Asylum Volume 1: The Psycho Ward was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.[1]
Nordhaus's DarkTales published books such as J. Michael Straczynski's Tribulations, Mort Castle's Moon on the Water, Yvonne Navarro's DeadTimes, and Robert Weinberg's Dial Your Dreams and Other Nightmares .
In 2007, Nordhaus began to shift gears by making a move into film in various capacities. He is the President of the independent film company Eris Films, LLC.[2] Eris Films' short film Midget Chainsaw Zombie.,[3] which Nordhaus wrote the script and dialogue for, won the Troma Team Award for Best Short Film at the 2007 Kansas International Film Festival - a competition which was judged and awarded by Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Entertainment.[4] In April 2008 Nordhaus worked with the director Steve Balderson and Dikenga Films on the movie Watch Out, based on the novel by Joseph Suglia, as a production assistant and performed a small role as The Priest in the film.[5]