Victor Heck is the pen name of David Nordhaus, born July 20, 1967 in St. Louis, Missouri, an American editor and horror fiction author.
In 1999, Heck's The Asylum Volume 1: The Psycho Ward was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.
In 2007, Nordhaus began to shift gears by making a move into film in various capacities.
[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.