Nominations:
Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales from the Tipping Point (Flame Tree Publishing), Anthology, 2024
“The Yellow Crown” (Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign) (Hippocampus Press), Short Fiction, 2021
BIO: Carol Gyzander was a prolific reader of classic science fiction and Agatha Christie mysteries in her early days. Now that her kids have flown the coop, she writes and edits horror, weird fiction, suspense, and science fiction—with strong women in twisted tales that touch your heart. Her short stories appear in magazines such as Weird Tales 367 and Weird House Magazine, and over two dozen anthologies. Carol has edited eight anthologies and a number of novels and collections.
She received a 2021 Bram Stoker Award® nomination for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction for her short story “The Yellow Crown” in Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign (Hippocampus Press, 2021). Her piece offers a female-centered perspective on Robert W. Chambers’s classic work of weird fiction, The King in Yellow (1895). This was the first year that all the nominees in a category were women!
She co-edited and contributed to Discontinue If Death Ensues: Tales From the Tipping Point (Flame Tree Collections, 2024), nominated for the 2024 Bram Stoker Award®. It contains interlaced stories and poems from five women authors in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand—her fellow nominees for the aforementioned 2021 HWA Bram Stoker Award®: Lee Murray, Cindy O’Quinn, Kyla Lee Ward, Anna Taborska, and Carol Gyzander. Her “Bobblehead” poem in the anthology was nominated for the 2025 SFPA Rhysling Award.
Some recent anthologies she’s co-edited from Crone Girls Press include the fungus horror Dark Spores: Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 4 (2024) and feminist horror A Woman Unbecoming (2022), which was produced in only two months after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Even in the Grave (NeoParadoxa, 2022) features ghost stories.
Carol lives with her husband in the northern New Jersey suburbs of New York City. She is quite busy with the Horror Writers Association as one of the Chapter Program Managers for the past four years, Co-Coordinator of the NY Chapter, and co-host of Galactic Terrors, the HWA NY monthly online reading series every second Thursday. See HWANY.org for more info!
See what else Carol is working on at http://www.CarolGyzander.com, or follow her on Instagram @carolgyzander or Bluesky @carolgyzander.bsky.social
