Career
Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels and short fiction. She won the awards for Sineater and Stephen. She has written historical fiction for young adults as well as mainstream fiction, media tie-ins, and non-fiction for American History textbooks and educational readers and testing programs.
Her first short horror story, "Whittler," was published in David B. Silva's The Horror Show magazine in 1984. Since then, her horror fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including,Best New Fantasy and Horror, Best New Horror, Splatterpunks, Inhuman Magazine, Grue, Hottest Blood, A Whisper of Blood, and Kolchak the Night Stalker: Casebook. Her book "Abed" is being converted into a short film by Jenny Lasko, Philip Nutman, and Ryan Lieske. The film has an expected release for summer 2012.
Massie is the creator of "Skeeryvilletown," a horror cartoon featuring creatures and monsters, which include 3-Eyed Devil Cat, Boo Boy, Wolfie, Fire Breathing Dog O' Death, Bonehead, the Witch Sisters, Rattie, and Battie.
Massie's novels, novelizations, comics, and collections include:
- Sineater (1992 - Pan Books, 1994 - Carroll & Graf, 1998 - Leisure, and 2004 - Simon & Schuster/iBooks)
- Southern Discomfort (Dark Regions Press - 1993)
- Welcome Back to the Night (1999 - Leisure)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Power of Persuasion (1999 - Simon & Schuster)
- Wire Mesh Mothers (2001 - Leisure)
- Shadow Dreams (1996 - Silver Salamander and 2002 - Leisure)
- Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark (co authored with Stephen Mark Rainey) (1999 - HarperCollins)
- The Fear Report (2004 - Bloodletting Press; 2010 Necon E-Books)
- Twisted Branch (written under the pen name "Chris Blaine", 2005 - Berkley Books)
- Homeplace (2007 - Berkley Books)
- The Tudors: King Takes Queen (2008 - Simon Spotlight Entertainment)
- The Tudors: Thy Will Be Done (2009 - Simon Spotlight Entertainment)
- DD Murphry, Secret Policeman (co authored with Alan M. Clark) (2009 - Raw Dog Screaming Press)
- Julie Walker is The Phantom in Race Against Death! (2010 Moonstone Books)
- Homegrown (2010 Crossroad Press)
- Afraid (2011 Crossroad Press)
- Sundown (2011 Necon E-Books)
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