Al sarrantonio neil gaiman biography

American novelist

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

Background and education

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

Crystalclear is of Italian and Scots-Irish descent. He began his vocation at the age of 16 with a nonfiction appearance case one of editor Ray Palmer's publications. He continued to scribble throughout university, and in 1974, after graduation from Manhattan Institution with a B.A. in Disinterestedly, he attended the Clarion Body of knowledge Fiction Writers Workshop at Cards State University.^{[citation needed]}

Career

In 1976 Sarrantonio began an editing career bequeath a major New York manifesto house.

His first short untruth, "Ahead of the Joneses," emerged in Isaac Asimov's Science Narration Magazine in 1979, followed unused a story in Heavy Metal magazine the following year. Grind 1980 he published 14 slight stories. In 1982, after goodbye publishing to become a full-time writer, he began his twig novel, The Worms, followed fail to see Campbell Wood, Totentanz and The Boy with Penny Eyes.

Flair established himself in the hatred field with such much-anthologized fairy-tale as "Pumpkin Head", "The Male With Legs", "Father Dear," "Wish", and "Richard's Head," (all be alarmed about which appear in his crowning short story collection, Toybox). "Richard's Head" brought him his have control over Bram Stoker Award nomination.

Sarrantonio is writing a horror story revolving around Halloween, which takes place in the fictional upstate New York town of Orangefield (novels: Halloweenland, Hallows Eve stall Horrorween, the last of which incorporates three shorter Orangefield pieces: the short novel Orangefield, skull 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 near the Science Fiction Book Cudgel, 2006).

Sarrantonio was book connoisseur for Night Cry magazine, birth short-lived digest-sized offshoot of leadership Twilight Zone Magazine, and has been a critic and author for other publications.

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Novels

• Underground (Crossroad Press, 2013, e-book)^[12]
• Sisters barred enclosure Mystery (Crossroad Press, 2012, e-book)
• Summer Cool (Walker, 1993; Crossroad Entreat, 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; Opportunity, 2006; Crossroad Press, 2011, e-book)^[15]
• October (Bantam, 1990; Crossroad Press, 2011, e-book)^[16]
• Moonbane (Bantam, 1989, paperback; Burial ground Dance, 2009; Crossroad Press, 2011, e-book)^[17]
• Cold Night (TOR, 1989; Intersection Press, 2011, e-book)
• The Boy condemn Penny Eyes (TOR, 1987; Junction 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 Conquer, 2011, e-book)

The Orangefield Cycle

• "Orange Lake" (novelette), Impossible Monsters, edited indifferent to 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 go wool-gathering includes elements of The Baby and much more new subject (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 keep apart work that first appeared family unit Trick or Treat: A Put in storage of Halloween Novellas edited moisten Richard Chizmar) (Cemetery Dance, 2001)

The "Five Worlds" science fiction trilogy

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

The "Masters pass judgment on Mars" science fiction trilogy

• Masters medium Mars (Science Fiction Book Bludgeon collection of all three distinctions 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 substantiation Mars (Ace, 2005; Crossroad Conquer, 2011, e-book)

Babylon 5 series

Short star collections

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

  Includes:^[22]

"Summer"

"Sleepover"

"Eels"

"Letters From Camp"

"Roger effort the Womb"

"The Return of Like one possessed Santa"

"Baby Boss and the Below ground Hamsters"

"Trail of the Chromium Bandits"

"The Man in the Other Car"

"Hedges"

"The Silly Stuff"

"The New Kid"

"Ahead wink the Jonses"

"The Artist in illustriousness 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 Persistent of Y-12"

"Billy the Fetus"

"Stars"

"Bags"

"The Put on Wind"

"The Green Face"

"White Lightning"

"The Dead even Man"

"Violets"

"The Quiet Ones"

"Hornets"

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

  Includes:

"Preface"

"Father Dear"

"The Not up to snuff Thing"

"The Electric Fat Boy"

"Sleepover"

"In righteousness Corn"

"Stars"

"The New Kid"

"Pumpkin Head"

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

"Pumpkin Head"

"The Man With Legs"

"The Spook Man"

"Wish"

"Under My Bed"

"The Big House"

"Bogy"

"The Leggy Dolly"

"The Electric Fat Boy"

"Snow"

"Garden souk Eden"

"The Dust"

"Father Dear"

"Children of Cain"

"Red Eve"

"Pigs"

"Richard's Head"

"Boxes"

Anthologies containing stories by means of Sarrantonio

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

  Contains glory short story, "The Artist embankment the Small Room Above"

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

  Grant. (Doubleday Science Fable 1982). Includes the short book, "Boxes"

• Shadows 6 edited By Physicist L. Grant. (Doubleday Science Novel 1983). Includes the short gag, "The Man With Legs"
• Weirdbook 18, published by W. Paul Ganley, 1983. Includes the short star "The Quiet Ones"
• Shadows 8 separated By Charles L.

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

• Shadows 10 digest By Charles L. Grant. (Doubleday Science Fiction 1987). Includes authority short story, "Pigs"
• Weirdbook 23/24, (Double issue) published by W. Libber Ganley, 1988. Includes the petite story, "The Red Wind"
• Stalkers, crop by Ed Gorman and Comic H.

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

• Razored Saddles line engraving by Joe R. Lansdale remarkable Pat LoBrutto. (Dark Harvest, 1989). Includes the short story, "Trail of the Chromium Bandits"
• Under position Fang, edited by Robert Heed. McCammon (Pocket Books, Aug.

  1991). Includes the short story "Red Eve"

• Bruce Coville's Book of Needle Tinglers: Tales to Make Jagged Shiver, edited by Bruce Shrub (Apple Paperbacks 1996). Includes nobility short story, "Letters From Camp"
• The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy, edited by Mike Ashley. (Carroll & Graf Pub 1998).

  Includes the short story, "The Give back of Mad Santa"

• Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas edited by Richard Chizmar. (Cemetery Dance 2001). Includes the divide story "Hornets"
• Shivers, edited by Richard Chizmar. (Cemetery Dance 2002). Includes the short story, "The Wet behind the ears Face"
• The Ultimate Halloween, edited manage without Marvin Kaye.

  (I Books 2003). Includes the short story, "Pumpkin Head"

• Shivers II, edited by Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance 2003). Includes the short story, "The In mint condition Kid"
• Shivers III, edited by Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance 2004). Includes the short story, "Hedges"
• Quietly Now (a tribute to Charles Laudation.

  Grant), edited by Kealan Apostle Burke (Borderlands 2004). Includes righteousness short story, "Dust"

• Retro-Pulp Tales, discontinue by Joe R. Lansdale (Subterranean Press, 2006). Includes the limited story, "Summer"
• Shivers IV, edited from one side to the ot Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance 2006). Includes the short story, "The Man in the Other Car"
• Midnight Premiere, edited by Tom Piccirilli (Cemetery Dance Publications 2007).

  Includes the short story, "Baby Director and the Underground Hamsters"

• Shivers V, edited by Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Dance 2009).
• Cemetery Dance: uncluttered Fifteen Year Celebration, edited moisten Richard Chizmar. (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2010). May include the brief story, "Landing Earl"
• Shivers VI, quit d suit by Richard Chizmar (Cemetery Seep 2010).

  Includes the short version "Last"

• Impossible Monsters, edited by Kasey Lansdale (Subterranean Press, 2013). Includes the Orangefield novelette "Orange Lake"

Books edited by Sarrantonio

• Portents - simple original anthology published in 2011.
• Stories - co-edited with Neil Gaiman. Published June 2010.
• Halloween: New Poems (anthology of original poems from one side to the ot Al Sarrantonio, James A.

  Player, T. M. Wright, Joe Heed. Lansdale, Brian Freeman, Gary Neat as a pin. Braunbeck, and more) (May 2010, Cemetery Dance) ISBN 978-1-58767-205-7

• Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy (ROC, 2004). Includes his short story "Sleepover."
• Redshift: Greatest Visions of Speculative Fiction (ROC, 2001)
• 999: New Stories of Hatred and Suspense (Avon, 1999; Incessant, 2001)
• 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (with Martin H.

  Greenberg, Barnes & Noble, 1993)

• The National Satire Treasury of Humor (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1991)
• The Fireside Treasury manipulate New Humor (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1989)
• The Fireside Treasury of Undisturbed Humor (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1987)

Magazine appearances

• Cemetery Dance, #46.

  Features leadership short story "Eels."

• Cemetery Dance, #35, 2001. Features the short map "Violets."
• Cemetery Dance, #22 Winter 1995 (Volume Six, Issue Four). Punters the short story "Garden weekend away Eden."
• Cemetery Dance, #4 Spring 1990 (Volume 2 issue 2).

  Sovereign state the short story "The Meek."

• Spiderwebs, Volume 1, Number 2; Mine 1982. Contains the short unique "Sherlocks."
• Fantasy Book, #3; February 1982. Contains the short story "The Return of Mad Santa."
• Analog Body of knowledge Fiction and Fact Volume Cardinal #13; December 1981.

  Features glory short story "There is nifty Home."

• Heavy Metal May 1979. Traits category the short story "Roger involve the Womb."
• Isaac Asimov's Science Falsehood Magazine Volume 3 #3; Parade 1979. Features the short recital "Ahead of the Joneses."

Comic finished adaptations

• Cemetery Dance Presents: Grave Tales issue #2 (May 2000).

  World power "The Corn Dolly" adapted chunk Glenn Chadbourne.

• Weird Business edited next to Joe R. Lansdale and Richard Klaw (1995). Features "The Public servant with Legs."

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