Max Booth III is an author, screenwriter, publisher, and podcast of horror fiction and criticism. He co-owns and operates the independent publishing house Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing. He is also the managing editor of "Dark Moon Digest," a horror fiction quarterly.Booth's nonfiction writing has appeared in LitReactor, CrimeReads, the San Antonio Current, Fangoria, and Film-14. His novella "We Need to Do Something" was made into a film. His first book, "Toxicity," was published in 2014.