author
"Crank up your Imagination"
BIO
Scott A. Cook is Artistic Producer of the professional musical theatre company, TheatreWorks Florida. The critically acclaimed company has won numerous awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and Broadway World. At 58 years old, he has created over 180 stories for the stage. After years of working in theatre, Scott is now following his dream of writing. Transitioning from stage to page seems a natural progression; a stage director pays immense attention to detail, just as an author does of any well written story. His favored genre is dark horror fiction in the vein of Stephen King, Dean Koontz and H.P. Lovecraft.
"I write because I am a born storyteller. I hope my stories incite conversation. Terrifying monsters or matters of the soul, we all have something to learn just by talking."
COMING SOON
FEATURED • UPCOMING BOOK
"Are you ready to be a
Hot Mess?"
SYNOPSIS • Hot Mess: The Adventures of a CIDP Anomaly
Hot Mess: The Adventures of a CIDP Anomaly is the touching, triumphant, and at times irreverent, true survival tale of Scott A. Cook and what happened to his life, his career and his purpose when a doctor sent him home to Google his rare, incurable neurological diagnosis of Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP).
Left standing on the corner of screwed and fucked, Scott begins his journey down the uncharted road of a rare, incurable disease, meeting friends along the winding path who help him in ways he never knew he needed. Armed with loving smiles and raw determination, they all learn life lessons only found in the misty mountains of the unknown as they search for a new normal that keeps changing from day to day.
Sometimes hysterical, sometimes poignant, always resilient, Hot Mess: The Adventures of a CIDP Anomaly is not only for all the CIDP Warriors out there kickin’ ass but for anyone who needs a good laugh, a moment of insight and a big shit shot of hope.
"There is a dark voice between the soul that seeks and the words that speak. I have found that voice. I pray you never do."
AVAILABLE NOW
SHORT STORIES
The following three short stories are a part of an original anthology series of twisted, unexpected seasonal dark fiction called FEARBOOK: VOL. 1 – FRESHMAN EDITION.
Autumn Folk
When a disabled man encounters a masked spirit called The Man in his own backyard, reality twists into a nightmarish landscape. But are the terrifying visions in the tree line The Man’s fault or something else entirely? Endings are just the beginning.
The Four Pillars
Amidst the festivities of Mardi Gras, Nellie becomes the target of racist harassment. When her loyal best friend comes to her defense, they end up cornered in an abandoned warehouse and must summon mysterious forces to give them the courage to fight back and escape. Will they overcome or submit to their assailants' deadly intentions? Now is the hour of Black Carne Valé. Farewell to the Flesh.
Naughty or Nice
Ten-year-old Luke, obsessed with Christmas, is lured into a forbidden forest after a mysterious encounter during his village’s Santa parade. There, strange snow-creatures reveal disturbing secrets about his family's dark holiday traditions. When he returns home, he must decide if he’ll carry on the familial lie—or break the cycle and choose for himself what it means to be Naughty or Nice.
IN PRODUCTION
NEW NOVELS
The following thriller-horror novels began in 2023 and are being drafted for publication in 2026 and 2027.
Heir Apparent
Heir Apparent is the story of Nicholas Ford, a young savant from a rural town, who races against time with his school friends to stop a satanic cult at his private Catholic high school. The cult is hellbent on finding an ancient religious relic on their property that will release AI demons from centuries past into our world. Will evil finally conquer good and turn our world into an apocalypse full of sentient AI creatures?
Pas de Deux
Pas de Deux is the fairytale turned nightmare story of Lindsay Prom, a highly successful principle ballerina for the New York City Ballet who has every artist's dream life but remains strangely tethered to her forboding childhood home, Chateau Avalon, and her toxic, aristocratic stepmother, Helene Ravenwood. As Lindsey becomes more famous, Helene begins a terrifying game of cat and mouse to trap her within the walls of the chateau and reveals the real reason she has become a rising star.
