Craig Clyde has written and co-written over three dozen screenplays, covering a wide range of subjects and genres. Historical dramas, family (and not-so family) comedies, action thrillers. Below are some brief descriptions of his work. Click on the Adobe® Acrobat logo for a complete PDF sample.



-- Sample One:

NOWHERE MAN: (Film Noir) An old German man with a painting, a computer hacker with a disk, a prostitute, a Senator's daughter. Someone is killing them all. The same "someone" who is bent on destroying the world's greatest art treasures. Someone who's willing to destroy society in preparation for a...second coming. And no one knows why. No one, except Jack O'Neill. The problem is -- he doesn't know he knows.

ACT OF GOD (Suspense Thriller) Women have started giving birth to female babies. But no males. And what’s more remarkable, these women are becoming pregnant without men. Asexual reproduction on a global basis. Men, as a human species, are doomed and it’s only a matter of time. When a parish priest and a journalist find themselves investigating this phenomonen they find something else. Something that not only astounds them but will destroy them too. And the only question is whether this is a natural occurrence -- or “an act of God.”

PIRATE HUNTER: (Action/Adventure) In a time when privateers fought both for and against the Crown; one man fought for and against -- the pirates. A fight that will cost him everything he holds dear.

DEAR JOHN (Romantic Comedy) When a male romance novelist falls in love with a hard-hitting female newspaper sex columnist their romantic lives takes on a whole new dimension. He thinks she's a man -- she thinks he's a woman. Why wouldn't they fall in love?

SPARROW ON THE ROOF (Drama) This is the story of a great American Matador David Jordan. When Jordan returns to Spain after a 25-year absence, it's as an older man in declining health to meet the daughter he's never known. He encounters and befriends a young orphan girl living on the roof of his apartment and his life and destiny are changed forever.

-- Sample Two:

THE ALPHA TRANSMISSION (Sci-Fi Thriller): A transmission has been received from M-13, a galaxy 25,00 light years from Earth. But this transmission is not the first “contact” we’d expected -- this transmission is a recipe. A DNA recipe. And it will change life as we know it.

FIRST WE DANCE (Erotic Thriller): A beautiful assassin is murdering Chicago's elite. Someone has gone over the edge and it's not just her looks that kill.

DEAD CERTAIN (Dark Comedy) Boyd Denning is an out-of-work mortuary assistant who has the worst luck in the world, until he meets “Death” who wants a vacation, at least for the weekend, and taps Boyd to take his place. Boyd must “take” the souls on the list, the “Dead: Certain” list. If he does he will enjoy life for as long as he wants it. All in all, not a bad deal until Boyd discovers that the girl of his dreams -- is on the list.

THE PUMPKIN MAN (Drama/Based on a True Story) In rural Fairview nothing exciting ever happened. Until October 1957, that was the year the tea leaves prophesied the coming of “The Pumpkin Man.” It was also the year of the “murder”. Born, literally, on the wrong side of the tracks, Jenny Loomis and her best friend Billy Don, became unwitting witnesses to the events surrounding the disappearance of the hated Union Pacific Station Manager. A disappearance that had local law enforcement convinced of foul play. But was it? The only one who really knew was Jenny Loomis. The only problem? She didn’t know she knew.

-- Sample Three:

A HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (Romantic Comedy) A likable con man stands to inherit millions if he can prove he has a stable family life. He has two weeks to find a house, a job, a wife and kids to meet the Christmas deadline. He doesn't know how he can pull it off, until two orphaned children come into his life...

THE ALPHA TRANSMISSION (Sci-Fi Thriller): A transmission has been received from M-13, a galaxy 25,00 light years from Earth. But this transmission is not the first “contact” we’d expected -- this transmission is a recipe. A DNA recipe. And it will change life as we know it.

ACT OF GOD (Suspense Thriller) Women have started giving birth to female babies. But no males. And what’s more remarkable, these women are becoming pregnant without men. Asexual reproduction on a global basis. Men, as a human species, are doomed and it’s only a matter of time. When a parish priest and a journalist find themselves investigating this phenomonen they find something else. Something that not only astounds them but will destroy them too. And the only question is whether this is a natural occurrence -- or “an act of God.”

-- Thriller Samples:

NOWHERE MAN: (Film Noir) An old German man with a painting, a computer hacker with a disk, a prostitute, a Senator's daughter. Someone is killing them all. The same "someone" who is bent on destroying the world's greatest art treasures. Someone who's willing to destroy society in preparation for a...second coming. And no one knows why. No one, except Jack O'Neill. The problem is -- he doesn't know he knows.

ACT OF GOD (Suspense Thriller) Women have started giving birth to female babies. But no males. And what’s more remarkable, these women are becoming pregnant without men. Asexual reproduction on a global basis. Men, as a human species, are doomed and it’s only a matter of time. When a parish priest and a journalist find themselves investigating this phenomonen they find something else. Something that not only astounds them but will destroy them too. And the only question is whether this is a natural occurrence -- or “an act of God.”

THE WATER AT KILLINGSWORTH (Suspense Thriller): The Soviet Union. 1972. A scientist has discovered the most dangerous substance known to man. Far more deadly than any nuclear device. A substance that is 100% lethal to every carbon-based lifeform, the substance is everywhere -- water! And a single mom with a degree in marine biologist turns out to be the only person in the world who can stop it from destroying everything.

YOUNG VAN HELSING "The Key Of King Solomon" (THRILLER): A century after Abraham Van Helsing subdued the minions of the devil a newly unearthed prophecy has revealed that they will come again. Furthermore only his great, great grandson, Gabriel -- a high school senior in Storm Lake Iowa -- can stop the dire prophecy from coming true. As written by Van Helsing's hand a century before "...the Key of Solomon The King” or “Clavicula Salomonis” was the most powerful of all the Holy Gnostic Talismans known to exist. This was the key he was given, it is the ‘Secret of Secrets’ and from that day to this -- for every century that cometh; beware the Angel’s return!” Problem is, Gabe Van Helsing has no clue how to do that.