Tiffany Manning is an independent artist who loves to create monsters and scares as an effects artist and scare actress, here she is in her own words.
Please introduce yourself:
Hello, my name is Tiffany Manning. Born and raised in Ohio. I’m 27yrs old and I’ve been a woman of horror ever since I can remember. Probably since the early age of 4 years old after my first of 19 surgeries when I awoke with stitches and related to Frankenstein’s monster and he forever became one of my favorite works of cinema magic. My love for the stitched monster only grew as my number of stitches grew when my disease Osteogenesis Imperfecta also known as brittle bones disease required me to have corrective surgeries due to fracturing almost every bone in my body hundreds of times.
I was most elated when I was able to get my hands on author Shade Rupe’s lengthy compendium of peeks in to the sub-cultural icons we know as cult figures today. Though all of the individuals in Rupe’s book are prolific and iconic, they don’t nearly garner as much attention as they deserve to. While many would be quick to pass this off as a book filled with interviews, the truth is “Dark Stars Rising” is a compilation of mini-biographies for stars, or people we consider stars, that deserve a spotlight. While author Rupe could have easily passed off lazy articles for a non-fiction book, all of the chapters profiling Rupe’s subjects are comprehensive to a startling degree, painfully honest and blunt, and stand as mini-biographical in-depth explorations in to the many cult stars Rupe is lucky and determined enough to interview and admire with professionalism.