Andi Brooks

Andi Brooks is an Anglo-Irish writer and electronic muscian based in Tokyo. He is the co-author, with Frank J. Dello Stritto, of the acclaimed Bela Lugosi biography "Vampire Over London: Bela Lugosi in Britain", curator of "The Bela Lugosi Blog" and a recipient of the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award. During his many years in Japan, he has immersed himself in the Japanese supernatural worlds of yūrei (ghosts) and yōkai (goblins). Despite a lifelong interest in the supernatural, however, all of his encounters have, to date, been mundanely earthbound.

Andi Brooks is an Anglo-Irish writer, anthologist and electronic musician based in Tokyo. Boasting ancestors who had regular congress with the spirit world, Andi has enjoyed a lifelong interest in the supernatural. He began writing short science fiction and horror stories in 1992. The following year, he turned his attention to writing on vintage horror and science fiction films for UK and American magazines such as Cult Movies and Scary Monsters

In 2000, with Frank J. Dello Stritto, he co-authored Vampire Over London: Bela Lugosi in Britain, a critically acclaimed biography of the Hollywood legend forever associated with the role of Dracula. An updated and expanded second edition followed in 2005.

In 2017, he received the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Dracula and the It Girl, an article recounting the short-lived love affair between Bela Lugosi and silent screen star Clara Bow.

In 2020, he published Ghostly Tales of Japan, a collection of original ghostly stories set throughout Japanese history. In 2022, the French publishing house OKNO Éditions published a French translation, Histoires de fantômes japonais, by Arnold Petit, and Kikui Press published a Japanese translation by Matsumoto Kentaro.

His short stories and poetry have been published in Shorts From Avon, Book of 42², Tokyo Weekender Magazine, The Spooky Isles, and White Enzo Journal, and have been read on Kaidankai: Ghost and Supernatural Stories.

Andi is the editor of the Ghost Stories For Christmas anthology series, a copywriter for the Japanese men’s fashion magazine The Rake Japan and the curator of The Bela Lugosi Blog.

He also creates electronic music under the name AirStripOne and occasionally releases music by other artists on his Trash City record label.

Andi is currently writing a second volume of ghostly Japanese stories.