Eric J. Guignard

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Eric J. Guignard
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Guignard in 2011
Born (1975-12-20) December 20, 1975 (age 49)
Montebello, California, U.S.
Occupation(s) horror author, publisher
SpouseJeannette
Children2
Website www.ericjguignard.com

Eric J. Guignard (born December 20, 1975, in Montebello, California) is an American horror, dark fantasy, and literary fiction anthologist, editor, and author. He is a lifelong resident of Southern California, [1] and teaches Technical Writing through the University of California system.

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Career

As an author

Eric J. Guignard has written and published over two hundred short stories including "Experiments in An Isolation Tank," published in the 2012 anthology titled Chiral Mad by Written Backwards.; [2] "The Tall Man," published in Shock Totem.; [3] and "A Case Study in Natural Selection and How it Applies to Love," published in Black Static. [4] His non-fiction works include "The H Word: Horror Fiction of Tomorrow," published in Nightmare Magazine . [5]

As an editor

In 2017, he purchased the small press company Dark Moon Books. Under this imprint, he has released several anthologies including A World of Horror [6] and After Death... which won a Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology.

The press also published a series of introductory primers titled Exploring Dark Short Fiction: A Primer to.... Each release in this series promotes a specific author, including Steve Rasnic Tem (2017), Kaaron Warren (2018), Nisi Shawl (2018), Jeffrey Ford (2019), Han Song (2020), Ramsey Campbell (2021), and Gemma Files (2025). [7]

Guignard also served as general editor of the Haunted Library of Horror Classics, co-edited with Leslie S. Klinger) and published by the Horror Writers Association and Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks. The series consisted of Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, followed by The Beetle by Richard Marsh, Vathek by William Beckford, House on the Borderlands by William Hope Hodgson, Of One Blood by Pauline Hopkins, The Parasite and Other Tales of Terror by Arthur Conan Doyle, The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, Ghost Stories of an Antiquarian by M.R. James, Gothic Classics: The Castle of Otranto and The Old English Baron by Horace Walpole and Clara Reeve, and The Mummy! by Jane Webb.

Awards

Bram Stoker Awards

AwardCategoryYearNominated workResultRef
Bram Stoker Awards Anthology 2013Dark Tales of Lost CivilizationsNominated [8]
2014After Death...Won
2019A World of HorrorNominated
2020Pop the ClutchNominated
2022Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology...Nominated
Collection 2019That Which Grows WildWon
First Novel 2020Doorways to the DeadeyeNominated
Long Fiction2015"Dreams of a Little Suicide"Nominated

Other honors

YearNominated workAwardResultRef
2011"Solicitors Will Be Deleted"Seventh International Short Story ContestSpecial Commendation [9]
2011"Thoughts of a Fish"A Very Short Story Contest, FebruaryWon [10]
2013"Baggage of Eternal Night" International Thriller Writers Awards Award for Best Short StoryFinalist [11]
2014Soulmate Writers of the Future ContestHonorable Mention [12]
2015"O Shades, My Woe" Pushcart Prize for Best Short StoryFinalist [13]
2022Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 Edition) Shirley Jackson Award for Best AnthologyWon [14]
2022Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 Edition) World Fantasy Award for Best AnthologyFinalist [15]

Selected bibliography

Author

Novels and novellas

  • Doorways to the Deadeye (2019, JournalStone) (novel) [16] – ISBN   978-1947654976
  • Baggage of Eternal Night (2013, JournalStone) (novella) [16] – ISBN   978-1940161013

Collections

  • That Which Grows Wild: 16 Tales of Dark Fiction (2018, Cemetery Dance) [16] – ISBN   978-1949491005
    • “A Case Study in Natural Selection and How It Applies to Love”
    • "Last Days of the Gunslinger, John Amos"
    • "Momma"
    • "Footprints Fading in the Desert"
    • "The House of the Rising Sun, Forever"
    • “The Inveterate Establishment of Daddano & Co."
    • "Last Night..."
    • "Those Who Watch From On High"
    • "Vancouver Fog"
    • "A Curse and a Kiss"
    • "Whispers of the Earth"
    • "A Serving of Nomu Sashimi"
    • "Certain Sights of an Afflicted Woman"
    • "A Journey of Great Waves"
    • "A Quaint Ol’ Bigfoot Tale"
    • “Dreams of a Little Suicide"

Anthologies edited

All anthologies below are published under Dark Moon Books unless otherwise noted.

Exploring Dark Short Fiction

  • Exploring Dark Short Fiction #1: A Primer to Steve Rasnic Tem (2017) [7]
  • Exploring Dark Short Fiction #2: A Primer to Kaaron Warren (2018) [7]
  • Exploring Dark Short Fiction #3: A Primer to Nisi Shawl (2018) [7]
  • Exploring Dark Short Fiction #4: A Primer to Jeffrey Ford (2019) [7]
  • Exploring Dark Short Fiction #5: A Primer to Han Song (2020) [7]
  • Exploring Dark Short Fiction #6: A Primer to Ramsey Campbell (2021) [7]
  • Exploring Dark Short Fiction #7: A Primer to Gemma Files (2025) [7]

Horror Library

  • Horror Library Volume 6 (2017, Cutting Block Books) [16] (republished 2021 under Dark Moon Books)
  • Horror Library Volume 7 (2022) [16]
  • Horror Library Volume 8 (2023) [16]

Standalone

  • Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations (2012) [16]
  • After Death… (2013) [16]
  • The Five Senses of Horror (2018) [16]
  • A World of Horror (2018) [16]
  • Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror (2019) [16]
  • Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021) [16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Horror Tree Presents... An Interview with Eric J Guignard" . Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Goodreads entry for Chiral Mad" . Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Shock Totem, Issue 10, March 7, 2016" . Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Black Static, Issue 47, July 2, 2015" . Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Nightmare Magazine, Issue 26, Nov. 2014". November 19, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Publishers Weekly Listing" . Retrieved September 17, 2019.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Dark Moon Books Product Description" . Retrieved September 17, 2019.
  8. ↑ "sfadb : Eric J. Guignard Awards". www.sfadb.com. Retrieved July 6, 2022.
  9. ↑ "FirstWriter International Short Story Contest, 2011" . Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  10. ↑ "A Very Short Story Contest, 2011". Archived from the original on July 27, 2011. Retrieved October 15, 2019.
  11. ↑ "International Thriller Writers Past Nominees and Winners" . Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  12. ↑ "Writers of the Future Contest Results". July 5, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  13. ↑ "Third Flatiron Pushcart Prize Archive 2015" . Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  14. ↑ "sfadb: Shirley Jackson Awards 2022". Science Fiction Awards Database . Retrieved June 21, 2025.
  15. ↑ "sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2022". Science Fiction Awards Database . Retrieved June 21, 2025.
  16. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Internet Speculative Fiction Database" . Retrieved October 2, 2019.
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