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James Chambers | |
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Born | December 16, 1970 New York |
Alma mater | Fordham University |
Occupation | Author |
Awards | HWA Silver Hammer Award (2016), The HWA President's Richard Laymon Award (2012), Bram Stoker Award (2012) |
Website | www |
James Chambers is an American author, comic book writer, and member of the Horror Writers Association.
Chambers is a member of and volunteer for the Horror Writers Association and recipient of the 2012 HWA President's Richard Laymon Award and the 2016 HWA Silver Hammer Award. In 2018, he chaired StokerCon, the Horror Writers Association annual conference, and taught writing workshops at the HWA Horror University. [1]
He was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel in 2016 for Kolchak: the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe and has been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award three times. [2] In 1995 and 1996, he collaborated with Leonard Nimoy as editor on the comic book series Leonard Nimoy's Primortals and Origins and with Majel Barrett Roddenberry while editing Gene Roddenberry's Lost Universe. He also edited Isaac Asimov's I*BOTS, a posthumous comic book series based on concepts by Isaac Asimov. He lives in New York, is a member of the Horror Writers Association New York Chapter, [3] and coordinates the Night Terror series of horror readings in New York City.
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, was chosen as the Best New Play of 2011 by Baltimore Broadway World.A list of reference works on the horror genre of film.
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