Steve is best known for works such as 30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre,Simon Dark, Mystery Society andBatman: Gotham County Line, he is credited among other contemporary writers as bringing horror comics back to prominence.

Niles is currently working for four of the top American comic publishers - IDW, DC, Image and Dark Horse. Everyone's favorite monster hunter Cal McDonald continues in the Criminal Macabre series from Dark Horse, as well as in stories currently being published by Steve's own Bloody Pulp Books. Currently for IDW, Steve is writing an all new series for 30 Days of Night.

Steve was raised in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, developing his interests in music, writing, and making amateur films. He worked in several comic book stores and played in the bandsGray Matter and Three during the heyday of the Washington harDCore punk scene, both of which released records on Dischord Records label. 

Steve resides north of Los Angeles with his girlfriend, Monica, two dogs, four cats and Gil the tortoise. While there's no crawlspace, there is a questionable closet in one corner and no one is quite sure what is hidden in there... but we have an idea.