Guilermo Del Toro directed Doug Jones in a 1997 horror film based on whose short story?
Doug Jones (actor):  He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, starring in "Mimic", as Abe Sapien in "Hellboy" and "", the Faun and the Pale Man in "Pan's Labyrinth", "Crimson Peak" and The Asset in "The Shape of Water," respectively. Mimic (film): Mimic is a 1997 American science fiction horror film co-written and directed by Guillermo del Toro based on Donald A. Wollheim's short story of the same name, and starring Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Charles S. Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, and F. Murray Abraham.
Donald A. Wollheim