Nathan Shelton is an award-winning stage & screen writer. His short play, Tinker Toys, won the Critic’s Choice Award at the 2005 Samuel French Short Play Festival in NYC. Nathan’s internationally-acclaimed web series, Shadow Bound, garnered numerous nominations & awards, including “Best Cinematography” & “Best Original Score” in the LA WEBFEST, the “People’s Choice Award” in Melbourne, Australia, seven separate nominations (including Best Series) in Spain’s prestigious Bilbao Web Fest, as well as an Official Selection in the Roma Web Fest in Italy. His short film, YELLOW (directed by Ryan Piotrowski) won the 2020 Ozarks CW Saucer Prize Award in the SATO Film Festival. Currently, Nathan is developing new and exciting projects, including multiple short films, slated for 2025 production.
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Welcome to Veritas; an old place with a long memory. A place of shadows and hidden terrors long forgotten by the modern world of 1931. But as famed pulp horror writer, Jack Pickman, soon discovers… some things in the shadows are best left forgotten.
THE WENDIGO
(folk horror – short)
Adapted for the screen by Nathan Shelton from Algernon Blackwood’s terrifying Novella. While on a hunting trip in the Canadian wilderness, a group of friends find themselves face to face with a horrifying local legend.
(Sci-Fi / Drama – short)
YELLOW is an award-winning short film script by Nathan Shelton. A girl named Yellow spends 30 years trapped in an underground bunker with only VHS tapes of her Father to keep her company.
FILM NOIR is a Horror Short Film by Nathan Shelton, adapted from his original radio play (Frightmare Theatre 2022). Notorious film critic, Manny Ferguson, gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to a special private screening at the behest of a recently deceased Film Auteur.
(Drama/Thriller – short)
DREGS is a dark drama/thriller Short Film Script by Nathan Shelton. While enjoying a peaceful afternoon in the park, three individuals’ lives are forever changed after a violent confrontation.
(Drama – short)
A LITTLE FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD is a dramatic Short Film Script by Nathan Shelton. Two friends reconnect and discover more about life and the special connection they share as they travel a little further down the road.
(Suspense Thriller – short)
WISHFUL THINKING is a Suspense short film screenplay by Nathan Shelton. A spoiled entitled young boy gets everything he asks for while on a family road trip down a dark lonely highway.
(horror/comedy – feature)
UNSPEAKABLE is a horror/comedy feature film script by Nathan Shelton. When an ancient evil is awakened, a ragtag band of misfit monster hunters must band together to save the world… or die trying.
(horror – radio play)
PIPER’S PASSING is a Horror Radio Play written by NATHAN SHELTON. Piper Landry’s unique gift of communing with the dead has led her to a small town in Louisiana, where she must stop a vicious serial killer before they claim their next victim.
(horror/comedy-radio play)
THAT DARK AND STORMY NIGHT is a Horror Comedy Radio Play by Nathan Shelton. A brilliant yet eccentric young Doctor could be having the most important night of his life… yet everything that could go wrong, will go wrong… with monstrously hilarious results!
(Lovecraftian horror – radio play)
BEYOND THE FIRMAMENT is a Lovecraftian Horror Radio Play, written by Nathan Shelton. A renowned archaeologist uncovers more than she bargained for when her latest discovery unveils horrifying truths about mankind’s past… and future!
(suspense – radio play)
PERFECTION is a Suspense Radio Play Script by Nathan Shelton. A young man is interrogated by a manipulative detective concerning the horrific death of his new wife. Revelations are made which thrust the two men deeper down the twisted corridor of truth.
(horror – radio play)
THE LOST is a Horror Radio Play by Nathan Shelton. Two reality TV producers travel into the backwoods of Missouri to investigate a lead for their new hit TV show, only to discover terrors beyond their wildest imaginings.
(horror – radio play)
COLD CALL is a Horror Radio Play by Nathan Shelton. An emergency phone operator longs for more excitement in her life. But on this particular evening an ominous call forces her to learn a terrible lesson – be careful what you wish for… you just might get it!
