Gary A. Braunbeck (born July 1, 1960) is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.
Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio (the city that serves as the model for the fictitious Cedar Hill in many of his stories).
In 2007 his story "Rami Temporales" was adapted by Stranger Things into a short film entitled "One of Those Faces"[1] starring Toby Turner.
That same year, he won a Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection with his anthology Destinations Unknown, published by Cemetery Dance Publications.
[4] In 2007, he won two Bram Stoker Awards, for Long Fiction with "Afterward, There Will Be a Hallway", and for Anthology with Five Strokes to Midnight (edited with Hank Schwaeble).