Liaguno, Vince A.

Awards:

Richard Laymon President’s Award, 2009

Unspeakable Horror, Anthology, 2008

Nominations:

“Slasher Films Made Me Gay: The Queer Appeal and Subtext of the Genre” (LGBTQ+ Horror Month: 9/1/2019, Ginger Nuts of Horror), Short Non-Fiction, 2019

BIO: Vince Liaguno is the Bram Stoker Award-winning editor of Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet (Dark Scribe Press 2008), an anthology of queer horror fiction, which he co-edited with Chad Helder. His debut novel, 2006’s The Literary Six, was a tribute to the slasher films of the 80’s and won an Independent Publisher Award (IPPY) for Horror and was named a finalist in ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Awards in the Gay/Lesbian Fiction category.

More recently, he edited Butcher Knives & Body Counts (Dark Scribe Press, 2011)—a collection of essays on the formula, frights, and fun of the slasher film—as well as the second volume in the Unspeakable Horror series, subtitled Abominations of Desire (Evil Jester Press, 2017). He’s currently at work on his second novel.

He currently resides on the eastern end of Long Island, New York, where he is a licensed nursing home administrator by day and a writer, anthologist, and pop culture enthusiast by night. He is a member (and former Secretary) of the Horror Writers Association (HWA) and a member of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC).

Author Website: www.VinceLiaguno.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vince.liaguno
Twitter: https://twitter.com/VinceLiaguno
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/VinceLiaguno

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