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Elizabeth Spilman Massie is an American author. She lives outside Waynesboro, Virginia with illustrator Cortney Skinner.
Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels and short fiction. [1] She won the awards for Sineater and Stephen. 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. Her book "Abed" is being converted into a short film by Jenny Lasko, Philip Nutman, and Ryan Lieske. The film has an expected release for 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.
Massie's novels, novelizations, comics, and collections include:
Elizabeth Massie's short works include:
Novels relating to the fictional universe established by Buffy and Angel:
Shenandoah Moon with Duane Hahn and Barbara Spilman Lawson
Mystery of the Meandering Music Box
Include historical fiction for young adults/teens and middle grade readers.
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
1991: (Novelette) - Stephen - Nominated
1991: (Short Fiction) - Stephen - Nominated
FantLab's Book of the Year Award:
2014: (Online Publication in Small Form) - Abed - Nominated
Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan is a British-American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Her novels and short stories often explore the relationship between the human mind and technology. Her debut novel, Mindplayers, was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1988.
Charles Lewis Grant was an American novelist and short story writer specializing in what he called "dark fantasy" and "quiet horror". He also wrote under the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Marsh, Lionel Fenn, Simon Lake, Felicia Andrews, Deborah Lewis, Timothy Boggs, Mark Rivers, and Steven Charles.
Brian Keene is an American author and podcaster, primarily known for his work in horror, dark fantasy, crime fiction, and comic books. He has won the 2014 World Horror Grandmaster Award and two Bram Stoker Awards. In addition to his own original work, Keene has written for media properties such as Doctor Who, Thor, Hellboy, Alien, Masters of the Universe, and The X-Files.
Brian James Freeman is an American author whose fiction has been published in magazines and anthologies including Borderlands 5, Corpse Blossoms, and all four volumes of the Shivers series. His first novel, Black Fire, was written under the pseudonym James Kidman. Published in 2004 by Leisure Books and Cemetery Dance Publications, the book was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, one of the major awards in the horror genre. His work has been nominated for several awards in the horror genre over the years. Cemetery Dance Publications recently published his Blue November Storms, a new novella, and The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book, which he wrote with Stephen King expert Bev Vincent. Acclaimed horror artist Glenn Chadbourne created over fifty unique illustrations for the book.
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Jill Bauman is an American artist. She has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award five times and nominated for the Chesley Award several times. Her art has been exhibited at the Delaware Art Museum, the Moore College of Art, Art Students League of New York, the NY Illustrators Society & and the Science Fiction Museum of Seattle. Bauman has created hundreds of book covers for horror, mystery, fantasy, science fiction, and best selling books including 23 of the Cat Who... books by Lilian Jackson Braun during the 1980s and 1990s.
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T. Winter-Damon was the pseudonym of Timothy Winter Damon, an American writer of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, as well as an artist. His work has appeared in anthologies and in hundreds of international magazines. Among other distinctions, T. Winter-Damon's short fiction was regularly selected to be reprinted in The Year's Best Horror Stories, an annual anthology published by DAW Books.
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