Philip Nutman

Nutman's career is best understood as three overlapping tracks running simultaneously rather than a clean linear progression. The fiction work came first, or at least it's what defined him longest — his novel *Wet Work* and the follow-up *Cities of Night* established him as a serious voice in horror and fantastic fiction, earning him a readership that persisted well past publication. The ISFDB bibliography documents the breadth of that output, and it's genuinely impressive for someone also holding down work in two other industries at the same time. The comic book editing track — over 50 books by most accounts — ran parallel to the fiction career and gave him a foothold in visual storytelling that fed directly into his film work. He's not a household name in comics, but 50+ editorial credits is a real body of work. The film producing credits are where things get most interesting for readers coming to this page from a streaming context. Co-producing *The Girl Next Door* in 2007 — the Gregory Wilson-directed adaptation of Jack Ketchum's novel, not the Elisha Cuthbert comedy — put Nutman in the room on one of the more genuinely disturbing horror films of that decade, a project that required someone with both genre credibility and production stamina to see through. His later producing work on *Abed* in 2012 came near the end of his life. The acting credits are a footnote, honestly: "Nutman" in *Death Collector* (1988) and a bar patron in *Dear God No!* (2011) are cameo-level appearances that don't represent a parallel acting career so much as a filmmaker's willingness to step in front of the camera when the moment called for it. Nutman died in 2013 before whatever next project was in development could be completed.