Laurel Hightower

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Laurel Hightower is an American writer of horror, paralegal, and podcaster. [1] [2]

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In 2022 Hightower was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction for her novel Below. [3] Prior to that, she received the 2020 This is Horror Best Novella Award for Crossroads. [4]

Bibliography

Novels

Collections and anthologies

Collections

  • Every Woman Knows This (2023, Death Knell Press) [14]

Anthologies

  • Places We Fear to Tread (2020, Cemetery Gates Media)
  • Midnight in the Pentagram (2020)
  • A Krampus Carol: Gothic Blue Book VI (2020, Burial Day Books)
  • We Are Wolves (2020) [15]
  • ProleSCARYet: Tales of Horror and Class Warfare (2021, Rad Flesh Press)
  • What One Wouldn't Do: An Anthology on the Lengths One Might Go To (2021)
  • Diabolica Americana (2021, Keith Anthony Baird)
  • A Woman Built by Man (2022, Cemetery Gates Media)
  • SLASH-HER A Women of Horror Anthology (2022, Kandisha Press)
  • Something Bad Happened (2022)
  • Drei Geisternovellen (2022, Festa Verlag)
  • The Dead Inside (2022, Dark Dispatch)
  • Terror in the Trench: An Anthology of Aquatic Horror (2022, Dead Sea Press)
  • Shattered & Splintered (2022)
  • It Was All A Dream: An Anthology of Bad Horror Tropes Done Right (2022, Hungry Shadow Press)
  • Hell Hath Only Fury (2022)
  • Tales From Between: Words & Pictures (2022)
  • Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology (2023, Shortwave Media)
  • Broken Olive Branches (2024)
  • Elemental Forces: Horror Short Stories (2024, Flame Tree Publishing)
  • The Rack: Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks (2024, “Mightier Than Bullets”, Thomas E. Deady)
  • Of Shadows, Stars, and Sabers: An Anthology (2025, Stars and Sabers Publishing)

References

  1. Black, Emilie (March 29, 2021). "Interview with Horror Author Laurel Hightower [Women in Horror Month 2021]". Cinema Crazed. Archived from the original on 2021-03-30. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  2. "Penumbric February 2k24, Interview: Laurel Hightower". Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  3. "Hightower, Laurel". The Bram Stoker Awards. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  4. "This Is Horror Awards 2020: The Winners". This Is Horror. 2021-09-06. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  5. Siraki, A. E. (2020-08-05). "Review: Crossroads by Laurel Hightower". Cemetery Dance Online. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  6. Joyce, Thomas (2020-09-09). "Book Review: Crossroads by Laurel Hightower". This Is Horror. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  7. Jordan, Waylon (2020-07-27). "BOOK REVIEW: Laurel Hightower's 'Crossroads' is Beautifully Horrifying". iHorror. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  8. Anderson, Derek (2022-04-08). "Indie Horror Month 2022 Q&A: Author Laurel Hightower Discusses Writing Her New Mothman Novella BELOW and Co-Editing THE DEAD INSIDE". Daily Dead. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  9. Tarr, Judith (2024-01-29). "From the Cosmic to the Personal: Laurel Hightower's Below". Reactor . Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  10. Cancre, Anton (2022-07-28). "Review: Below by Laurel Hightower". Cemetery Dance Online. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  11. Jones, Tony (2023-10-11). "Silent Key By Laurel Hightower - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website". Ginger Nuts of Horror. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  12. Hipson, Rick (2024-04-26). "What Screams May Come: The Day of the Door by Laurel Hightower". Cemetery Dance Online. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  13. Pastorella, Bob (2024-04-04). "Look Out For … The Day of the Door by Laurel Hightower". This Is Horror. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  14. Cancre, Anton (2023-04-25). "Review: Every Woman Knows This by Laurel Hightower". Cemetery Dance Online. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
  15. Wilkes, Ally (2021-01-08). "We Are Wolves (review)". Horrified Magazine. Archived from the original on 2022-09-20. Retrieved 2022-09-18.