Dan Cziraky:  

CLASS OF 1980
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Science High SchoolClass of 1980
Newark, NJ
Jersey city, NJ
Emerson CollegeClass of 1982
Boston, MA
Newark, NJ

Dan's Story

Life Dan Cziraky has been kicking around this universe for far too long -- ever since May 14, 1962. It's never been proved, but it is suspected that his birth foretold the assassination of President John F. Kennedy! Born & raised in New Jersey, he attended Alexander Street Elementary School in Newark, then graduated from Newark's prestigious Science High School in 1980. Higher education was obtained at Emerson College in Boston (Theater Arts Major, 1980-82), and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Media was earned from Jersey City State College in 1990. Cziraky was a cartoonist and film critic for Emerson's The Berkley-Beacon, and was both Features Editor and/or Editor-in-Chief of JCSC's The Gothic Times. From June 1988 to August 1989, he worked as a paste-up artist at Volt Information Sciences, Inc., on the 30th floor of the NYNEX Building in lower Manhattan. Cziraky was ordained into the Church of Gospel Ministry of Chula Vista, CA, in 1984. He was a Billing Inquiry Representative for AT&T from November 1990 to July 1997. Cziraky's interest in science-fiction and horror began at an early age. He remembers seeing 1931's Dracula on TV when he was only three years old! A tail-end Boomer, he fondly remembers watching original episodes of Star Trek, Dark Shadows, and Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Cziraky has amassed...Expand for more
a vast collection of science-fiction, horror, fantasy, and mystery books and videos. He has turned this knowledge into a career as a horror/sci-fi movie expert. He has written reviews and articles for Cinefantastique, Imagi-Movies, Toxic Horror, The Phantom of the Movies' VideoScope, HORROR: The Newsmagazine of the Horror & Dark Fantasy Fields, Anime-Fantastique, Castle Rock: The Official Stephen King Newsletter, Visions, Draculina, Dark Muse, SPFX, Horror Biz, and Scream Queens Illustrated. He was associate editor for the first four issues of Femme Fatales magazine, and a creative consultant on A.J. Ryan's The Electric Witch: Thoughts & Prayers. He was a member of the Joe Bob Briggs Board of Drive-In Experts: Horror Committee, from 1995-97. He was a columnist and critic for both Fandom.com and Cinescape Online. His short stories "None of Your Business" and "Tim Burton's Red Reign" are posted at Vampress.net. Today, Cziraky makes his home in the southern Piedmont region of North Carolina, about fifteen miles from Charlotte. He is currently collaborating on a horror/parody novel, "Of Skeletons in the Closet," with fellow JCSC alumnus Jon Zuchowski. He is also writing action figure reviews and the "Darth Zirock's Interrogation Droid" column on collecting Star Wars memorabilia and toys for swCollector.com.
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