Douglas E. Winter

Douglas E. Winter
Born	(1950-10-30) October 30, 1950 (age 74) St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Occupation	Writer

Douglas E. Winter (born October 30, 1950, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American writer, critic, and lawyer.

Winter grew up in Granite City, Illinois. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1975 and became a lawyer in Washington, DC, currently working as Of Counsel/Director of Analytics Review Technology at internationally based law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP. His practice focuses on complex litigation, information management, electronic discovery, and entertainment law. Winter has also taught legal writing at the University of Iowa and for several federal, state, and municipal agencies.

A lifelong interest in horror, suspense, and mystery has led him to develop a parallel career as a writer and critic of dark suspense and horror fiction. Winter edited horror anthologies Prime Evil (1988) and Revelations (1997; UK: Millennium) as well as the Hugo Award-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning interviews collection Faces of Fear (1985, revised 1990). He has also written the authorized critical biographies of Stephen King and Clive Barker. His novel Run (2000) was selected as the Best Suspense Novel of the Year by the Book of the Month Club and was nominated for the World Mystery Award. His experimental novella Splatter: A Cautionary Tale (1987) was nominated for the World Fantasy Award. His short story "Black Sun," illustrated by Stephen R. Bissette, won the International Horror Award. Other short fiction has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Award.

Winter has appeared in several documentary films and has provided commentary for blu ray and DVD releases of a variety of motion pictures, including Candyman, The Dead Zone, Pet Sematary, and Salem's Lot. He was book review columnist for Fantasy Review, Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He wrote more than 150 soundtrack review columns for Video Watchdog. His reviews have appeared in such major metropolitan newspapers as the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and in magazines as diverse as Saturday Review, Harper's Bazaar, Fangoria, Gallery, and Twilight Zone. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. ^[1]

Publications

Books

• Run (2000) (Novel)
• A Little Brass Book of Full Metal Fiction (2006)
• Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic (2001) (Non-Fiction)
• Black Sun (1994)
• Splatter: A Cautionary Tale (1987)
• Stephen King: The Art of Darkness (1984) (Non-Fiction)
• Faces of Fear: Encounters with the Creators of Modern Horror (1985) (Non-Fiction)
• Shadowings: The Reader’s Guide to Horror Fiction (1983) (Non-Fiction)
• The Reader’s Guide to Stephen King (1982) (Non-Fiction)

Short Fiction

• June 11, 1936 (1980)
• Child of Sorrow (Poem) (1980)
• Masks (1985)
• Street Life (1985)
• Down-Time: A Fable (1986)
• Splatter: A Cautionary Tale (1987) (illustrated by J.K. Potter)
• Office Hours (1987)
• The Happy Family (1989) (with Melissa Mia Hall)
• Less Than Zombie (1989)
• Black Sun (1991) (illustrated by Stephen R. Bissette)
• Bright Lights, Big Zombie (1992)
• Loop (1995)
• Playing Dolls (1995) (with Melissa Mia Hall)
• One More Red Nightmare (1996)
• The Zombies of Madison County (1997)
• Joy Divided (Poem) (1998)
• The Pathos of Genre (1999)
• Blessed Assurance (2003)
• Nothing at All (2006)

Editor

• Black Wine (1986)
• Night Visions 5 (1988) (aka Dark Visions)
• Prime Evil (1988)
• Revelations (1997)

Awards

Work	Year & Award	Category	Result	Ref.
Faces of Fear: Encounters with the Creators of Modern Horror	1986 Locus Award	Non-Fiction/Reference	Nominated	[2]
	1986 Hugo Award	Related Work	Nominated
Black Wine	1987 World Fantasy Award	Anthology/Collection	Nominated
Splatter: A Cautionary Tale	1988 World Fantasy Award	Short Fiction	Nominated
Night Visions 5	1989 Locus Award	Anthology	Nominated
Prime Evil	1989 Locus Award	Anthology	Nominated
	1989 World Fantasy Award	Anthology	Nominated
Bright Lights, Big Zombie	1992 Bram Stoker Award	Short Fiction	Nominated
Black Sun	1994 International Horror Guild Award	Short Fiction	Won	[3]
Loop	1995 International Horror Guild Award	Short Fiction	Won
	1996 World Fantasy Award	Short Fiction	Nominated
Revelations (UK: Millennium)	1997 International Horror Guild Award	Anthology	Won
	1998 World Fantasy Award	Anthology	Nominated
	1998 Locus Award	Anthology	Nominated
The Zombies of Madison County	1997 Bram Stoker Award	Long Fiction	Nominated
	1998 World Fantasy Award	Novella	Nominated
Run	2000 Book of the Month Club	Suspense Novel of the Year	Won
	2000 International Horror Guild Award	First Novel	Nominated
	2000 Bram Stoker Award	First Novel	Nominated
	2001 Anthony Awards	First Novel	Nominated
Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic	2002 International Horror Guild Award	Non-Fiction	Nominated
	2002 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional	-	Nominated
	2003 Locus Award	Non-Fiction	Nominated

Douglas E. Winter was also nominated for the 1983 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional award for writing & reviewing, won the 1986 World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professional award for reviewing & won the 2003 HWA Silver Hammer Award (Horror Writers Association).

See also

• Winter (name)

References

1. "Douglas E. Winter: Ratchetting Up the Prose". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-02-14.
2. https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards
3. https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html

External links

• Winter at Fantastic Fiction
• Winter at Myspace