Gary A. Braunbeck

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Gary A. Braunbeck
Born (1960-07-01) July 1, 1960 (age 63)
Newark, Ohio, U.S.
OccupationWriter, author
LanguageEnglish
Nationality American
CitizenshipUnited States
Genres Science fiction, fantasy, mystery, horror
Website
garybraunbeck.com

Gary A. Braunbeck (born July 1, 1960) is an American science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror author.

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Biography

Braunbeck was born in Newark, Ohio (the city that serves as the model for the fictitious Cedar Hill in many of his stories). He writes in a number of different genres, but principally horror.

Nearly 200 of his short stories have appeared in various publications such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , Cemetery Dance , Sword of Ice and Other Tales of Valdemar, and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror . Some of his most popular stories are mysteries that have appeared in the Cat Crimes anthology series. In 2007 his story "Rami Temporales" was adapted by Stranger Things into a short film entitled "One of Those Faces" [1] starring Toby Turner.

Braunbeck also taught creative writing at Seton Hill University, Pennsylvania, in theirlow-residency Master of Fine Arts degree program in Writing Popular Fiction. [2]

He has also served as co-editor for the fifth installment of the Masques horror-anthology series created by Jerry Williamson, Masques V. For a time he was also a regular contributor to Everything2 and served briefly as a content editor there.

In 2005–2006, Braunbeck served a term as President of the Horror Writers Association. He was married to Lucy A. Snyder (divorced 2023), a science fiction/fantasy writer. He dubbed the Dreadtime Stories series April Fool. [3]

Awards

His work has received several awards, including the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Best Short Fiction in 2003 and 2005 for "Duty" and "We Now Pause for Station Identification".

His novella "Kiss of the Mudman" received the International Horror Guild Award for Long Fiction in 2006. That same year, he won a Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection with his anthology Destinations Unknown, published by Cemetery Dance Publications. [4]

In 2007, he won two Bram Stoker Awards, for Long Fiction with "Afterward, There Will Be a Hallway", and for Anthology with Five Strokes to Midnight (edited with Hank Schwaeble). In 2010 he won their award for nonfiction with To Each Their Darkness, published by Apex Publications. [5] He won the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Long Fiction with "The Great Pity."

Awards for Gary A. Braunbeck's writing
YearTitleAwardResultRef.
1997Things Left Behind Bram Stoker Award Fiction Collection Shortlisted [6]
2000The Indifference of Heaven Bram Stoker Award Best Novel Shortlisted [7]
2003"Duty" Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction Won [8]
Fear in a Handful of Dust Bram Stoker Award Non-Fiction Shortlisted [9]
Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories Vol 1 Bram Stoker Award Fiction Collection Shortlisted [10]
2004"Just Out of Reach" Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction Shortlisted [11]
2005In the Midnight Museum Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction Shortlisted [12]
Keepers Bram Stoker Award Best Novel Shortlisted [13]
"We Now Pause for Station Identification" Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction Won [14]
2006Destinations Unknown Bram Stoker Award Fiction Collection Won [15]
Prodigal Blues Bram Stoker Award Best Novel Shortlisted [16]
2007"Afterward, There Will Be A Hallway" Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction Won [17]
Five Strokes to Midnight Bram Stoker Award Anthology Won [18]
2008Coffin County Bram Stoker Award Best Novel Shortlisted [19]
Five Strokes to Midnight World Fantasy Award Anthology Shortlisted [20]
2010"Return to Mariabronn" Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction Shortlisted [21]
To Each Their Darkness Bram Stoker Award Non-Fiction Won [22]
2013"The Great Pity" Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction Won [23] [24]
2015Halfway Down the Stairs Bram Stoker Award Fiction Collection Shortlisted [25] [26] [27]
Paper Cuts Bram Stoker Award Long Fiction Shortlisted [28] [29]

Bibliography

Novels

Collections

Nonfiction books

Books edited

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