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The Year's Best Horror Stories
The Year’s Best Horror Stories was a series of annual anthologies published by DAW Books in the U.S. from 1972 to 1994 under the successive editorships of Richard Davis from 1972 to 1975 (after a 1971-1973 series published by Sphere Books in the U.K.; the first volumes had the same contents, the U.S. second volume in 1974 drew stories from the second and third U.K. volumes, and the 1975 U.S. third volume was very different from the U.K's.; the U.S. third volume was published as a one-shot volume in the U.K. by Orbit Books in 1976), and of Gerald W. Page from 1976 to 1979, and Karl Edward Wagner from 1980 to 1994. The series was discontinued after Wagner's death. It was a companion to DAW’s The Annual World’s Best SF and The Year's Best Fantasy Stories, which performed a similar function for the science fiction and fantasy fields. Each annual volume reprinted what in the opinion of the editor was the best horror short fiction appearing in the previous year. The series als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Matheson
Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres. He is best known as the author of '' I Am Legend'', a 1954 science fiction horror novel that has been adapted for the screen three times. Matheson himself was co-writer of the first film version, '' The Last Man on Earth'', starring Vincent Price, which was released in 1964. The other two adaptations were ''The Omega Man,'' starring Charlton Heston, and '' I Am Legend'' with Will Smith. Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of ''The Twilight Zone'', including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel", as well as several adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories for Roger Corman and American International Pictures – '' House of Usher'', ''The Pit and the Pendulum'', ''Tales of Terror'' and ''The Raven''. He adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay directed by Steven Spielberg for the television film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Thomas (writer)
Jeffrey Thomas (born October 3, 1957) is a prolific writer of science fiction and horror, best known for his stories set in the nightmarish future city called Punktown, such as the novel ''Deadstock'' (Solaris Books) and the collection ''Punktown'' (Ministry of Whimsy Press), from which a story was reprinted in St. Martin's ''The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #14''. His fiction has also been reprinted in Daw's ''The Year's Best Horror Stories XXII'', ''The Year's Best Fantastic Fiction'' and ''Quick Chills II: The Best Horror Fiction from the Specialty Press''. He has been a 2003 finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (Best First Novel) for ''Monstrocity'', and a 2008 finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for ''Deadstock''. Other books by Thomas include the novels ''Letters from Hades'' (Bedlam Press) and ''Monstrocity'' (Prime Books), and the novella ''Godhead Dying Downwards'' ( Earthling Publications). The German edition of ''Punktown'' has cover art by H. R. Giger. Thomas i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie Richerson
Carrie Richerson (November 1, 1952 - February 2, 2019) was an American science fiction fan and bookseller who was also a science fiction writer repeatedly nominated for international awards. Biography Born Carrie Richerson in Mississippi November 1, 1952, she got her degree from Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she studied Mathematics. She lived in Austin where she was involved in the local science fiction fandom and where she worked as a bookseller. Richerson was involved in running conventions and she was part of the team that ran the 1997 Worldcon, LoneStarCon 2. She also wrote short fiction, beginning in the 1990s. Her work was published in a number of magazines, including '' Amazing Stories'', ''Asimov’s'', ''F&SF'', '' Pulphouse'', and ''Realms of Fantasy''. Richerson was nominated for a Campbell Award twice. Her work also appeared in a collection and other anthologies. Elizabeth Moon Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma Qui
"Ma Qui" is a 1991 fantasy/horror story by American writer Alan Brennert. It was first published in ''the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction''. Plot summary After an American soldier is killed in the Viet Nam War, he must find his way to the afterlife — if the ''ma qui'', Vietnamese "angry ghosts", will let him. The protagonist of this short story is William Anthony Collins, an American soldier who was killed while attempting to rescue his friend from snipers. Because his body was taken by the Viet Cong before his fellow soldiers could recover it, he is unable to progress to the next stage of the afterlife and wanders about Vietnam as a ghost. While traveling a trail following the Song Cai, he encounters a spirit house inhabited an old man named Phan Van Duc, who was killed by a tiger, and Phan's daughter Chau, who died childless. After departing from the spirit house, Collins meets his old friend DePaul, floating above a river and wracked with pain. DePaul tells Collins t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Carpenter
Leonard Paul Carpenter (born February 6, 1948) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction. He writes as Leonard Carpenter and Leonard P. Carpenter. Life Carpenter was born in 1948 in Chicago, but aside from a year in West Texas in childhood has lived most of his life in California.Author profile on Amazon.com He married Cheryl Lynn Chrisman on October 10, 1970, in Alameda, California. They attended University of California, Berkeley, UC Berkeley, from which they both graduated, and had two daughters and a son. The Carpenters lived in Santa Maria, California from 1975 to 2003, and continued to reside on the Central Coast (California), California Central Coast thereafter. Cheryl, a schoolteacher, retired in 2013 and died January 24, 2014, after a year-long fight with cancer.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Scott Home
William Scott Home (born January 2, 1940) is the pen name (and, later, legal name) of an American author, poet and biologist principally known for writing horror and dark fantasy. Best known for a short story that appeared in 1978 in ''The Year's Best Horror Stories'' (along with Stephen King's "Children of the Corn", which also made the cut that year), Home was most prolific during the 1970s and 80s when his poetry and fiction was published in a wide range of media. Part of a circle of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror writers that paid homage to M. P. Shiel and H. P. Lovecraft, Home is considered by many to be a unique talent in his own right. His range of styles and control of language and suspense is well-demonstrated in his published collection: ''Hollow Faces, Merciless Moons.'' While he has published little since the 1980s, Home is still writing and currently lives in the Dyea Valley, west of Skagway, Alaska. Early life Home was born in Windsor, Missouri, and grew up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nina Kiriki Hoffman (born March 20, 1955, in San Gabriel, California) is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror writer. Profile Hoffman started publishing short stories in 1975. Her first nationally published short story appeared in ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' magazine in 1983. She has since published over 200 in various anthologies and magazines. Her short story "A Step Into Darkness" (1985) was one of the winners of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future award and was published in the first of the ''Writers of the Future'' anthologies. Her second collection of short stories, ''Courting Disasters and Other Strange Affinities'', was nominated for the 1992 Locus Award for best collection of the year. Her novella '"Unmasking", published in 1992 by Axolotl Press, was a finalist for the 1993 World Fantasy Award. Her novella "Haunted Humans" (seen in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'', July 1994) was a finalist for the 1995 Nebula Award for Best Novella an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Drake
David A. Drake (born September 24, 1945) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature. A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now a writer in the military science fiction genre. Biography Drake graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa, majoring in history (with honors) and Latin. His studies at Duke University School of Law were interrupted for two years when he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry (the Black Horse Regiment) in Vietnam and Cambodia. After the war, from 1972 to 1980 he worked as the Assistant Town Attorney in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Since 1981 he transitioned to full time writing of science fiction literature. With Karl Edward Wagner and Jim Groce, he was one of the initiators of Carcosa, a small press company. He now lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina. On 17 November 2021 he announced he is retiring from writing novels, due to unspecified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Jessica Amanda Salmonson (born January 6, 1950John Clute and John Grant,Salmonson, Jessica Amanda, in ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy'', pp. 832–833, Orbit, London / St Martin’s Press, New York (1997).) is an American author and editor of fantasy and horror fiction and poetry. She lives on Puget Sound with her partner, artist and editor Rhonda Boothe. Writing career Author Salmonson is the author of the ''Tomoe Gozen'' trilogy, a fantasy version of the tale of the historical female samurai Tomoe Gozen. Her other novels are ''The Swordswoman'', ''Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman'', an Asian fantasy, and a modern horror novel, ''Anthony Shriek''. Her short story collections include ''A Silver Thread of Madness''; ''Mystic Women''; ''John Collier and Fredric Brown Went Quarreling Through My Head''; ''The Deep Museum: Ghost Stories of a Melancholic''; and ''The Dark Tales''. Poetry collections include ''Horn of Tara'' and ''The Ghost Garden''. Editor Salmonson was the ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Tuttle
Lisa Gracia Tuttle (born September 16, 1952) is an American-born science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. She has published more than a dozen novels, seven short story collections, and several non-fiction titles, including a reference book on feminism, ''Encyclopedia of Feminism'' (1986). She has also edited several anthologies and reviewed books for various publications. She has been living in the United Kingdom since 1981. Tuttle won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1974, received the 1982 Nebula Award for Best Short Story for " The Bone Flute", which she refused, and the 1989 BSFA Award for Short Fiction for "In Translation". Writing career Lisa Tuttle began writing when she attended The Kinkaid School in Piney Point Village, Texas. At the Mirabeau B. Lamar Senior High School in Houston she was active in science fiction fandom, and founded and edited the Houston Science Fiction Society's fanzine, ''Mathom''. At Syracuse University in New York, she wrot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Sarrantonio
Al Sarrantonio (born May 25, 1952) is an American horror and science fiction writer, editor and publisher who has authored more than 50 books and 90 short stories. He has also edited numerous anthologies and has been called "brilliant" and "a master anthologist" by Booklist. Background and education Sarrantonio was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. He is of Italian and Scots-Irish descent. He began his career at the age of 16 with a nonfiction appearance in one of editor Ray Palmer's publications. He continued to write throughout university, and in 1974, after graduation from Manhattan College with a B.A. in English, he attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop at Michigan State University. Career In 1976 Sarrantonio began an editing career at a major New York publishing house. His first short fiction, "Ahead of the Joneses," appeared in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' in 1979, followed by a story in '' Heavy Metal'' magazine the fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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