WILL "THE THRILL" VIHARO (that’s me) is a freelance writer and the author of several "gonzo pulp" novels including A Mermaid Drowns in the Midnight Lounge, Freaks That Carry Your Luggage up to the Room, Chumpy Walnut, Lavender Blonde, Down a Dark Alley, and the “Vic Valentine, Private Eye” series, the first of which, Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me, has been optioned for a film by Christian Slater, reissued in 2013 by Gutter Books, which also published the new Vic Valentine novel Hard-boiled Heart in December, 2015.

Two science fiction novels, It Came from Hangar 18 and The Space Needler's Intergalactic Bar Guide, were written in collaboration with Scott Fulks, who added real science to Will's pulp.

Will's own imprint, Thrillville Press, has issued a three volume anthology series featuring all of his standalone novels called "The Thrillville Pulp Fiction Collection," along with another omnibus called "The Vic Valentine Classic Case Files," which include four novels from the 1990s, Fate Is My Pimp, Romance Takes a Rain Check, I Lost My Heart in Hollywood, and Diary of a Dick, plus a short story bridging the eras, "Brain Mistrust."

More recently published books include the Vic Valentine "Mental Case Files" trilogy comprised of Vic Valentine: International Man of Misery, Vic Valentine: Lounge Lizard For Hire, and Vic Valentine: Space Cadet; the original story collection Vic Valentine, Private Eye: 14 Vignettes; the erotic horror noir novella Things I Do When I'm Awake; a collection of surrealistic Covid-era noir vignettes, Vic Valentine Fever Dreams; a Vic Valentine novella/short story combo, All Souls Are Final and “Panty-Stuffed Snakeskin Shoe”; a collection of erotic horror noir stories, VIHORROR! Cocktales of Sex and Death.

Additionally Will has had stories included in a variety of anthologies including Fast Women and Neon Lights: Eighties-Inspired Neon Noir; Mixed Up!; Long Distance Drunks: A Tribute to Charles Bukowski; Deadlines: A Tribute to William Wallace; Dark Yonder: Tales and Tabs; Knucklehead Noir and Weird Winter Wonderland (both Coffin Hop Press); and Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror.

In 2023 he published his epic epistolary memoir, Graffiti in the Rubber Room: Writing For My Sanity, which he considers to be his magnum opus.

Viharo's unique brand of "gonzo pulp fiction" combines elements of eroticism, noir, fantasy, and horror. For many years he was a professional film programmer/impresario and live music booker, hosting and producing the popular “cult movie cabaret” called “Thrillville Theater” in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. He now lives in Seattle, WA with his wife Monica “Tiki Goddess” Cortes Viharo, PhD, and their cat Googie, Tiki RIP.