Philip J. Riley

Born January 21, 1948

After 15 years as a professional musician (Philip J Riley played on 8 Grammy Award albums) - He switched to journalism when he found out that many silent films were lost and that the American Screenwriter was falling through the cracks of American Literary History - He wrote a series of Books all containing the origianl shooting scripts to promote awareness of the great American art, that of Screenwriter: For MGM a series on Lost Films like the 1927 London After Midnight and his Universal Series which also included acknowledgements for the photograhers, designers, directors, musicians and other cast and crew members who were almost forgotten today. His third series is an Alternate History of Classic Monster films; James Whale's Dracula's Daughter starring Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff as Cagliostro and The Invisable Man, Lon Chaney as Dracula, Lon Chaney Jr in Wolfman vs Dracula. These will be published along with his first science fiction novel over the next few years -