Tony Wolf

Originally from New Zealand and now based in Chicago, author and antiquarian Tony Wolf professes a lifelong interest in historical obscurities. His books include the Suffrajitsu graphic novel trilogy (2014), the true-crime anthology Houdini's "Girl Detective"; The Real-Life Ghost-Busting Adventures of Rose Mackenberg (2016) and the novel The Life and Fantastical "Crimes" of Spring Heeled Jack (2020). He has also written and co-produced/directed the independent documentaries Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes (2011) and No Man Shall Protect Us: The Hidden History of the Suffragette Bodyguards (2018).

A veteran of the entertainment and education industries, Tony served as the Cultural Fighting Styles Designer for the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and has created action scenes for over 300 feature films, TV series, and theatrical productions. He was also instrumental in the revival of Bartitsu, a mixed martial art created at the turn of the twentieth century.

Tony blogs via alt-death.com, a curated compendium of the ways in which an emerging counterculture of artists, designers, academics and activists are changing the mortality conversation.