Victor Heck is the pen name of David Nordhaus, born July 20, 1967 in St. Louis, Missouri, an American editor and horror fiction author. He is the former owner/operator of DarkTales Publications. In 1999, Heck's The Asylum Volume 1: The Psycho Ward was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Anthology.^[1]

Nordhaus's DarkTales published books such as J. Michael Straczynski's Tribulations (ISBN 1-930997-0-35), Mort Castle's Moon on the Water (ISBN 0-9672029-9-X), Yvonne Navarro's DeadTimes (ISBN 0-967202-9-57), and Robert Weinberg's Dial Your Dreams and Other Nightmares (ISBN 1-930997-11-6).

In 2007, Nordhaus began to shift gears by making a move into film in various capacities. He is the President of the independent film company Eris Films, LLC.^[2] Eris Films' short film Midget Chainsaw Zombie.,^[3] which Nordhaus wrote the script and dialogue for, won the Troma Team Award for Best Short Film at the 2007 Kansas International Film Festival - a competition which was judged and awarded by Lloyd Kaufman of Troma Entertainment.^[4] In April 2008 Nordhaus worked with the director Steve Balderson and Dikenga Films on the movie Watch Out, based on the novel by Joseph Suglia, as a production assistant and performed a small role as The Priest in the film.^[5]