Nominations:
Flesh & Blood Magazine, Alternative Forms, 2004
Flesh and Blood (magazine), Alternative Forms, 2002
Category: Alternative Forms
Castle, Mort
Awards:
Lifetime Achievement Award, 2023
Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury (IDW Publishing), Graphic Novel, 2015
Shadow Show (HarperCollins), Anthology, 2012
New Moon on the Water (Dark Regions), Fiction Collection, 2012
Nominations:
Dreaming Robot Monster, Long Fiction, 2009
“FYI”, Short Fiction, 2006
“As Others See Us”, Short Fiction, 2005
“Disappearances”, Short Fiction, 2002
Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead, Fiction Collection, 2002
Buckeye Jim in Egypt (audio script based on the Mort Castle story), Alternative Forms, 2002
“I Am Your Need”, Short Fiction, 2001
BIO: A former stage hypnotist, folksinger, and high school teacher, Mort Castle has been a publishing writer since 1967, with hundreds of stories, articles, comics and books published in a dozen languages. Castle has won three Bram Stoker Awards®, two Black Quill awards, the Golden Bot (Wired Magazine), and has been nominated for The Audie, The Shirley Jackson award, the International Horror Guild award and the Pushcart Prize. In 2000, the Chicago Sun-Times News Group cited him as one of “Twenty-One Leaders in the Arts in Chicago’s Southland.” Poland’s Newsweek magazine ranked Obcy, the Polish language edition of The Strangers, among the “Top Ten Thriller-Horror Novels Published in 2008.” Castle edited the contemporary classic reference work On Writing Horror for the HWA and with Sam Weller, edited both the prose anthology and the graphic novel compilation, Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury. His novels include The Deadly Election, and Cursed Be the Child, and the story collections Moon on the Water, Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead, and New Moon on the Water. His latest fiction compilation is entitled Knowing When to Die, which was a semi-finalist in the 2016 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest. In a special Halloween issue scheduled for October 2018, Poland’s Playboy Magazine will re-introduce fiction to its pages with Castle’s story “Light,” published in this collection. Castle and his wife, Jane, have been married forty-seven years and live in Crete, Illinois.
Ballon, Bruce
Benson, Amber
Nominations:
Ghosts of Albion (webcast script), Alternative Forms, 2003
Arnzen, Michael A.
Awards:
Proverbs for Monsters, Fiction Collection, 2007
Freakcidents, Poetry Collection, 2005
The Goreletter (email newsletter), Alternative Forms, 2003
Grave Markings, First Novel, 1994
Nominations:
“Screamin’ in the Rain: The Orchestration of Catharsis in William Castle’s The Tingler“ (What Sleeps Beneath), Short Non-fiction, 2024
100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories, Fiction Collection, 2004
The Goreletter, Alternative Forms, 2004
Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems, Poetry Collection, 2003
Paratabloids, Poetry Collection, 2000
Arnzen has been an active HWA member since the late 1980s and continues explore the weirdness through his writing. Follow him on twitter at @MikeArnzen to stay updated and to get strange poems when you least expect them. Extended biographical information and his award-winning newsletter, The Goreletter, is also available at: http://gorelets.com/about-michael-a-arnzen/
BIO: Amityville-born horror writer Michael Arnzen currently holds four Bram Stoker Awards and an International Horror Guild Award for his often funny, always disturbing fiction and poetry. Aside from his novels, Grave Markings and Play Dead, the short-story collections Proverbs for Monsters and 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories collect the best of the minimalist horror and speculative flash fiction that he is especially known for. Always experimenting, Arnzen’s work in the genre has appeared in everything from poetry magnets (Fridge of the Damned) and Palm Pilots (Gorelets) to playing cards (Play Dead) and moving pictures (Exquisite Corpse). He has also run a small press outfit called called Mastication Publications since 1991.
Arnzen holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon and since 1999 has taught fulltime at Seton Hill University, near Pittsburgh, in their MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. He has mentored writers in the HWA and has taught sessions at many genre writing retreats, from Odyssey to Alpha. He also has written helpful books for writers, including, Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side and, as co-editor, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction.
