Edo van Belkom (born 1962) is a Canadian author of horror fiction.
Early life and education
Edo van Belkom was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1962. He re-evaluated his career and his finances and then became a full-time freelance writer in 1992.
Early in his career, he admired writers such as Kurt Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury before deciding that the horror genre was the best fit for him. Mister Magick, Martyrs, Scream Queen, Army of the Dead and Wolf Pack, of science fiction, fantasy, horror and mystery in such magazines as Parsec, Storyteller, On Spec and RPM, and the anthologies Northern Frights 1, 2, 3, 4, Shock Rock 2, Fear Itself, Hot Blood 4, 6, Dark Destiny, Crossing the Line, Truth Until Paradox, Alternate Tyrants (where his story "The October Crisis" was featured), The Conspiracy Filed, Brothers of the Night, Robert Bloch's Psychos, The Year's Best Horror Stories 20 and Best American Erotica 1999.
He was hired as an on-air host at Scream TV in 2001. mostly under the pseudonym Evan Hollander.
Outside of the horror genre, for several years he wrote a magazine serial for Truck News that recounts the adventures of a former private investigator who becomes a trucker.
His short story "The Rug", from the book Death Drives a Semi, was adapted into a 2025 short film, with the creative process of the filmmakers depicted in Sean Cisterna's documentary film Silver Screamers.
Awards
Wyrm Wolf is a Locus bestseller and a finalist for the 1995 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. That year van Belkom was Master of Ceremonies for the World Horror Convention. His story, "The Rug" was a 1998 Stoker finalist. Other stories have twice been nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award (presented by the Crime Writers of Canada).