Category: Short Fiction

Chapman, Greg

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Awards:

Richard Laymon President’s Award, 2017

Nominations:

“The Book of Last Words” (This Sublime Darkness and Other Dark Stories) (Things in the Well Publishing), Short Fiction, 2019

Hollow House (Omnium Gatherum Media), First Novel, 2016

BIO: Greg Chapman is the Bram Stoker Award®-nominated and Australian Shadows Award-nominated author of Hollow House and the author of five novellas: Torment (2011 and 2016), The Noctuary (2011), Vaudeville (2012), The Last Night of October (2013 and 2016) and The Eschatologist (2016). His debut collection, Vaudeville and Other Nightmares, was published in 2014.

His short stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Dark Eclipse, DevolutionZ, SQ Mag, Midnight Echo, and several anthologies. His short story, The Bone Maiden, was an Australian Shadows Award finalist in 2015, as was his novella, The Eschatologist in 2016.

He is also a horror artist and his first graphic novel Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times, written by authors Rocky Wood and Lisa Morton, won the Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel category at the Bram Stoker Awards® in 2013.

He also illustrated the comic series Allure of the Ancients for Midnight Echo Magazine and the one-shot comic, Bullet Ballerina, written by Tom Piccirilli.

His second novel, The Noctuary: Pandemonium, the sequel to his acclaimed 2011 novella, was published by Bloodshot Books in late 2017.

Greg is also the current President of the Australasian Horror Writers Association.

Facebook author page – https://www.facebook.com/GregChapman.Author

Twitter – @darkscrybe

Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4396574.Greg_Chapman

Amazon Page – https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B004Q7PCRE

Campbell, Ramsey

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Awards:

Ramsey Campbell, Probably, Non-fiction, 2002

Lifetime Achievement Award, 1998

Alone with the Horrors, Fiction Collection, 1993

Nominations:

Told by the Dead, Fiction Collection, 2003

Gathering The Bones, Anthology, 2003

Silent Children, Novel, 2000

“The Entertainment”, Short Fiction, 1999

“The Word”, Long Fiction, 1997

Waking Nightmares, Fiction Collection, 1991

Scared Stiff, Fiction Collection, 1987

Castle, Mort

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Photo Credit: Michelle Pretorious

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.