Elizabeth Massie

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Elizabeth Spilman Massie is an American author. She lives outside Waynesboro, Virginia with illustrator Cortney Skinner.

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Career

Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels and short fiction. [1] She won the awards for her novel Sineater and novelette Stephen. In 2022, she was honored with the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

She has written historical fiction for young adults as well as mainstream fiction, media tie-ins, and non-fiction for American History textbooks and educational readers and testing programs.

Her first short horror story, "Whittler," was published in David B. Silva's The Horror Show magazine in 1984. Since then, her horror fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including, Best New Fantasy and Horror, Best New Horror, Splatterpunks, Inhuman Magazine, Grue, Hottest Blood, A Whisper of Blood, and Kolchak the Night Stalker: Casebook, "Voices in the Darkness", and many, many more. Her story "Lock Her Room" was developed into a short film ky Kai Soremekun and aired on the Showtime Network. He story "Abed" was converted into a short film by Jenny Lasko, Philip Nutman, and Ryan Lieske. The film was released in the summer 2012.


Massie is the creator of "Skeeryvilletown," a horror cartoon featuring creatures and monsters, which include 3-Eyed Devil Cat, Boo Boy, Wolfie, Fire Breathing Dog O' Death, Bonehead, the Witch Sisters, Rattie, and Battie.

Bibliography

Massie's novels, novelizations, comics, and collections include:

Collected Stories

Short fiction

Elizabeth Massie's short works include:

Buffyverse

Novels relating to the fictional universe established by Buffy and Angel:

Plays

Shenandoah Moon with Duane Hahn and Barbara Spilman Lawson

Mystery of the Meandering Music Box

Other works

Include historical fiction for young adults/teens and middle grade readers.

Awards

Bram Stoker Award:

1990: (Long Fiction) - Stephen - Won

1992: (First Novel) - Sineater - Won

1996: (Fiction Collection) - Shadow Dreams - Nominated

2022: Lifetime Achievement winner

Scribe Awards: [2]

2009: (Best Novel - Adapted) - The Tudors: King Takes Queen - Nominated

2010: (Best Adaptation - General & Speculative) - The Tudors: Thy Will be Done - Won

Locus Award: [3]

1991: (Novelette) - Stephen - Nominated

World Fantasy Award:

1991: (Short Fiction) - Stephen - Nominated

FantLab's Book of the Year Award:

2014: (Online Publication in Small Form) - Abed - Nominated

References

  1. "Women in Horror Month - Interview with Elizabeth Massie - Horror Writers Association BlogHorror Writers Association Blog". horror.org.
  2. https://iamtw.org/the-scribe-awards/previous-scribe-award-winners/
  3. https://www.sfadb.com/Elizabeth_Massie