About Me: Philip Overby is a weird fantasy writer and creator of the world of Splatter Elf. His writing tends to lean towards dark comic fantasy with a twist of bizarre lime. Some non-book influences include 1980s cartoons, Dungeons and Dragons, action movies, Adult Swim, Mortal Kombat, South Park, Monty Python, John Carpenter, Alejandro Jodorowsky, mysticism, absurdism, and surrealism. Authorial influences include Robert E. Howard, Joe Abercrombie, Terry Pratchett, China Mieville, George R.R. Martin, H.P. Lovecraft, and Andrzej Sapkowski.

You can check out his fiction in a variety of places by viewing his Author Central page here. His fiction can be found at Fantasy-Faction.com, The Best of Martinus Publishing, Songs of the Great Cycle, Kizuna: Fiction for Japan, Iron Pen Anthology: Volume 1, and Hurricane Blues.

He is also the co-host of The Grim Tidings Podcast with Rob Matheny which has featured such guests as Raymond E. Feist, Joe Abercrombie, R.A. Salvatore, Steven Erikson, R. Scott Bakker, Anthony Ryan, Kameron Hurley, Richard A. Knaak and numerous others. He is also an article writer for Mythic Scribes.

He likes monster hunters, weird magic, were-creatures, and undead unicorns. He lives in Yokohama, Japan with his wife and collection of magic stones.