Alan Peter Ryan (May 17, 1943 – June 3, 2011) was an American author and editor, known for his work in the horror genre in the 1980s.
[2] An American author of Irish ancestry visiting Ireland for the first time is the main character in Cast a Cold Eye.
Encouraged by Charles L. Grant as well as his friends Thomas Monteleone and Jill Bauman, Ryan wound up selling his first paperback original, Panther!, on proposal for $6000.
He returned in 2011 with a new novel, Amazonas, which came out after his death of pancreatic cancer at the age of 68 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he lived.
Ryan was a prolific horror author and also a respected editor, with notable anthologies including World Fantasy Award nominees Perpetual Light (1982) and Night Visions: In the Blood (1984, first in the Night Visions series published by Berkley and later Subterranean Press).