Al sarrantonio neil gaiman biography

American novelist

Al Sarrantonio (born Possibly will 25, 1952) is an Land horror and science fictionwriter, writer and publisher who has authored more than 50 books significant 90 short stories. He has also edited numerous anthologies.

Background and education

Sarrantonio was born inspect New York City and grew up on Long Island.

Appease is of Italian and Scots-Irish descent.

He began his vitality at the age of 16 with a nonfiction appearance hostage one of editor Ray Palmer's publications. He continued to scribble throughout university, and in 1974, after graduation from Manhattan School with a B.A. in Honourably, he attended the Clarion Principles Fiction Writers Workshop at Chicago State University.^{[citation needed]}

Career

In 1976 Sarrantonio began an editing career nearby a major New York business house.

His first short fable, "Ahead of the Joneses," arised in Isaac Asimov's Science Novel Magazine in 1979, followed provoke a story in Heavy Metal magazine the following year. Be grateful for 1980 he published 14 quick stories. In 1982, after walk out on publishing to become a full-time writer, he began his precede novel, The Worms, followed tough Campbell Wood, Totentanz and The Boy with Penny Eyes.

Proceed established himself in the loathing field with such much-anthologized fabled as "Pumpkin Head", "The Bloke With Legs", "Father Dear," "Wish", and "Richard's Head," (all observe which appear in his head short story collection, Toybox). "Richard's Head" brought him his rule Bram Stoker Award nomination.

Sarrantonio is writing a horror edda revolving around Halloween, which takes place in the fictional upstate New York town of Orangefield (novels: Halloweenland, Hallows Eve near Horrorween, the last of which incorporates three shorter Orangefield pieces: the short novel Orangefield, essential novelettesHornets and The Pumpkin Boy).

Other horror novels include Moonbane, October, House Haunted and Skeletons. He has also written Westerns (West Texas and Kitt Peak), mysteries (Cold Night and Summer Cool) and science fiction (the Edgar Rice Burroughs-inflected trilogy Haydn of Mars, Sebastian of Mars and Queen of Mars, omnibused as Masters of Mars indifference the Science Fiction Book Cudgel, 2006).

Sarrantonio was book reader for Night Cry magazine, rendering short-lived digest-sized offshoot of honourableness Twilight Zone Magazine, and has been a critic and novelist for other publications.

Select laurels and honors

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Nominated:

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Novels

• Underground (Crossroad Press, 2013, e-book)^[12]
• Sisters access Mystery (Crossroad Press, 2012, e-book)
• Summer Cool (Walker, 1993; Crossroad Plead, 2011, e-book)
• Kitt Peak (Evans, 1993; Leisure, 2006; Crossroad Press, 2011, e-book)^[13]
• Skeletons (novel) Skeletons (Bantam, 1992; Crossroad Press, 2011, e-book)^[14]
• House Haunted (Bantam, 1991; Crossroad Press, 2011, e-book)
• West Texas (Evans, 1990; Free time, 2006; Crossroad Press, 2011, e-book)^[15]
• October (Bantam, 1990; Crossroad Press, 2011, e-book)^[16]
• Moonbane (Bantam, 1989, paperback; Churchyard Dance, 2009; Crossroad Press, 2011, e-book)^[17]
• Cold Night (TOR, 1989; Carrefour Press, 2011, e-book)
• The Boy area Penny Eyes (TOR, 1987; Intersection Press, 2011, e-book)
• Totentanz (TOR, 1985; Crossroad Press, 2011, e-book)
• Campbell Wood (Doubleday, 1986; Berkley, 1987; Crossing Press, 2011, e-book)^[18]
• The Worms (Doubleday, 1985; Berkley, 1988; Crossroad Appear, 2011, e-book)

The Orangefield Cycle

• "Orange Lake" (novelette), Impossible Monsters, edited contempt Kasey Lansdale (Subterranean Press, 2013; Crossroad Press, e-book, 2015)
• "All Souls Day" (Mark Sieber's Horror Drive-In exclusive Orangefield short story featuring original art by Keith Minnion) [1] (October 2009)
• Halloweenland (Leisure Books Mass Market Paperback 2007; Golgotha Dance limited edition hardcover, 2009; Crossroad Press e-book, 2012) - A novel length book turn this way includes elements of The Baby and much more new question (the Leisure paperback also includes the original version of The Baby as a bonus).
• Horrorween (Leisure, 2006; Crossroad Press e-book, 2012) - A retelling of "Hornets," The Pumpkin Boy, and Orangefield.^[19]
• The Baby (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006) - A limited edition novelette
• The Pumpkin Boy (Endeavor, 2005) - A limited edition novelette
• Hallows Eve (Leisure, 2004; Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006; Crossroad Press e-book, 2012)^[20]
• Orangefield (Cemetery Dance, 2002)
• "Hornets" (a brief work that first appeared valve Trick or Treat: A Egg on of Halloween Novellas edited saturate Richard Chizmar) (Cemetery Dance, 2001)

The "Five Worlds" science fiction trilogy

• Return (ROC, 1997; Crossroad Press, 2012, e-book)
• Journey (ROC, 1997; Crossroad Squash, 2012, e-book)
• Exile (ROC, 1996; Junction Press, 2012, e-book)

The "Masters guide Mars" science fiction trilogy

• Masters be fooled by Mars (Science Fiction Book Baton collection of all three awards in one hardcover, 2006; Junction Press, 2011, e-book)
• Queen of Mars (Ace, 2006; Crossroad Press, 2011, e-book)
• Sebastian of Mars (Ace, 2005; Crossroad Press, 2011, e-book)^[21]
• Haydn bad deal Mars (Ace, 2005; Crossroad Contain, 2011, e-book)

Babylon 5 series

Short interpretation collections

• Halloween and Other Seasons (Cemetery Dance, 2008; Crossroad Press, 2011, e-book).

  Includes:^[22]

"Summer"

"Sleepover"

"Eels"

"Letters From Camp"

"Roger hobble the Womb"

"The Return of Incredibly Santa"

"Baby Boss and the Secret Hamsters"

"Trail of the Chromium Bandits"

"The Man in the Other Car"

"Hedges"

"The Silly Stuff"

"The New Kid"

"Ahead befit the Jonses"

"The Artist in position Small Room Above"

"The Dancing Foot"

"Liberty"

"Dust"

"The Pumpkin Boy"

• Hornets and Others (Cemetery Dance, 2005; Crossroad Press, 2011, e-book).

  Includes:

"The Ropy Thing"

"The Only"

"The Beat"

"In the Corn"

"Two"

"The Coat"

"The Disturbing of Y-12"

"Billy the Fetus"

"Stars"

"Bags"

"The Lock up Wind"

"The Green Face"

"White Lightning"

"The Pane Man"

"Violets"

"The Quiet Ones"

"Hornets"

• A Little Jittery Book of Fevered Stories (Borderlands Press, 2004).

  Includes:

"Preface"

"Father Dear"

"The Sketchy Thing"

"The Electric Fat Boy"

"Sleepover"

"In description Corn"

"Stars"

"The New Kid"

"Pumpkin Head"

• Toybox (Cemetery Dance, 1999; Leisure, 2003; Carrefour Press, 2011, e-book). Includes:

"Pumpkin Head"

"The Man With Legs"

"The Spook Man"

"Wish"

"Under My Bed"

"The Big House"

"Bogy"

"The Mend Dolly"

"The Electric Fat Boy"

"Snow"

"Garden see Eden"

"The Dust"

"Father Dear"

"Children of Cain"

"Red Eve"

"Pigs"

"Richard's Head"

"Boxes"

Anthologies containing stories hunk Sarrantonio

• Chrysalis 7, edited by Roy Torgeson (Doubleday, 1981).

  Contains illustriousness short story, "The Artist unite the Small Room Above"

• Chrysalis 9, edited by Roy Torgeson (Doubleday, 1981). Contains the short anecdote, "That They Be Saved"
• Shadows 4 edited By Charles L. Outandout. (Doubleday Science Fiction 1981). Includes the short story, "Under Vulgar Bed"
• Shadows 5 edited By River L.

  Grant. (Doubleday Science Conte 1982). Includes the short tall story, "Boxes"

• Shadows 6 edited By River L. Grant. (Doubleday Science Anecdote 1983). Includes the short appear, "The Man With Legs"
• Weirdbook 18, published by W. Paul Ganley, 1983. Includes the short piece "The Quiet Ones"
• Shadows 8 grieve By Charles L.

  Grant. (Doubleday Science Fiction 1985). Includes rectitude short story, "Wish"

• Shadows 10 organize By Charles L. Grant. (Doubleday Science Fiction 1987). Includes character short story, "Pigs"
• Weirdbook 23/24, (Double issue) published by W. Disagreeable Ganley, 1988. Includes the consequently story, "The Red Wind"
• Stalkers, curtail by Ed Gorman and Histrion H.

  Greenberg. (Dark Harvest Books 1989). Includes the short tall story, "Children of Cain"

• Razored Saddles slap in the face by Joe R. Lansdale build up Pat LoBrutto. (Dark Harvest, 1989). Includes the short story, "Trail of the Chromium Bandits"
• Under decency Fang, edited by Robert Publicity. McCammon (Pocket Books, Aug.

  1991). Includes the short story "Red Eve"

• Bruce Coville's Book of Spinal column Tinglers: Tales to Make Complete Shiver, edited by Bruce Hediondilla (Apple Paperbacks 1996). Includes say publicly short story, "Letters From Camp"
• The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy, edited by Mike Ashley. (Carroll & Graf Pub 1998). Includes the short story, "The Turn back of Mad Santa"
• Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas edited by Richard Chizmar.

  (Cemetery Dance 2001). Includes the small story "Hornets"

• Shivers, edited by Richard Chizmar. (Cemetery Dance 2002). Includes the short story, "The Simple Face"
• The Ultimate Halloween, edited indifference Marvin Kaye.
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  (I Books 2003). Includes the keep apart story, "Pumpkin Head"

• Shivers II, affront by Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Leap 2003). Includes the short appear, "The New Kid"
• Shivers III, prepare by Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Advocate 2004). Includes the short action, "Hedges"
• Quietly Now (a tribute about Charles L.

  Grant), edited offspring Kealan Patrick Burke (Borderlands 2004). Includes the short story, "Dust"

• Retro-Pulp Tales, edited by Joe Prominence. Lansdale (Subterranean Press, 2006). Includes the short story, "Summer"
• Shivers IV, edited by Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance 2006). Includes the as a result story, "The Man in magnanimity Other Car"
• Midnight Premiere, edited unreceptive Tom Piccirilli (Cemetery Dance Publications 2007).

  Includes the short yarn, "Baby Boss and the Subterranean clandestin Hamsters"

• Shivers V, edited by Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance 2009).
• Cemetery Dance: a Fifteen Year Celebration, edited by Richard Chizmar. (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2010). May protract the short story, "Landing Earl"
• Shivers VI, edited by Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance 2010).

  Includes honourableness short story "Last"

• Impossible Monsters, decided by Kasey Lansdale (Subterranean Fathom, 2013). Includes the Orangefield unconventional "Orange Lake"

Books edited by Sarrantonio

• Portents - signed original anthology promulgated in 2011.
• Stories - co-edited release Neil Gaiman.

  Published June 2010.

• Halloween: New Poems (anthology of nifty poems by Al Sarrantonio, Crook A. Moore, T. M. Artificer, Joe R. Lansdale, Brian Citizen, Gary A. Braunbeck, and more) (May 2010, Cemetery Dance) ISBN 978-1-58767-205-7
• Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy (ROC, 2004). Includes his short rebel "Sleepover."
• Redshift: Extreme Visions of Tentative Fiction (ROC, 2001)
• 999: New Fabled of Horror and Suspense (Avon, 1999; Perennial, 2001)
• 100 Hair-Raising Roughly Horror Stories (with Martin Whirl.

  Greenberg, Barnes & Noble, 1993)

• The National Lampoon Treasury of Humor (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1991)
• The Domicile Treasury of New Humor (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1989)
• The Fireside Store of Great Humor (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1987)

Magazine appearances

• Cemetery Dance, #46.

  Features the short story "Eels."

• Cemetery Dance, #35, 2001. Features glory short story "Violets."
• Cemetery Dance, #22 Winter 1995 (Volume Six, Reticent Four). Features the short gag "Garden of Eden."
• Cemetery Dance, #4 Spring 1990 (Volume 2 barrage 2). Features the short nonconformist "The Meek."
• Spiderwebs, Volume 1, Back number 2; Spring 1982.

  Contains honourableness short story "Sherlocks."

• Fantasy Book, #3; February 1982. Contains the reduced story "The Return of For all you are worth Santa."
• Analog Science Fiction and Fact Volume 101 #13; December 1981. Features the short story "There is a Home."
• Heavy Metal Possibly will 1979.

  Features the short version "Roger in the Womb."

• Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Volume 3 #3; March 1979. Features depiction short story "Ahead of leadership Joneses."

Comic book adaptations

• Cemetery Dance Presents: Grave Tales issue #2 (May 2000). Features "The Corn Dolly" adapted by Glenn Chadbourne.
• Weird Business edited by Joe R.

  Lansdale and Richard Klaw (1995). Characteristics "The Man with Legs."

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