Douglas E. Winter
Douglas E. Winter | |
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| Born | October 30, 1950 |
| Occupation | Writer |
Douglas E. Winter (born October 30, 1950, in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American writer, critic and lawyer.
Winter grew up in Granite City, Illinois. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1975 and became a lawyer in Washington, DC, currently working as Of Counsel/Director of Analytics Review Technology at internationally based law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, concentrating on complex litigation, information management, electronic discovery, and entertainment law. Winter has also taught legal writing at the University of Iowa.
A lifelong interest in horror has led him to develop a parallel career as horror writer and horror critic. Winter edited horror anthologies Prime Evil (1988) and Revelations (1997) as well as the Hugo Award-nominated and World Fantasy Award-winning interviews collection Faces of Fear (1985, revised 1990). He has also written the authorized critical biographies of Stephen King and Clive Barker. His novel Run (2000) was selected as the Best Suspense Novel of the Year by the Book of the Month Club and was nominated for the World Mystery Award. His experimental novella Splatter: A Cautionary Tale (1987) was nominated for the World Fantasy Award. His short story "Black Sun," illustrated by Stephen R. Bissette, won the International Horror Award. Other short fiction has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Award.
Winter was book review columnist for Fantasy Review, Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He wrote more than 150 soundtrack review columns for Video Watchdog. His reviews have appeared in such major metropolitan newspapers as the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and in magazines as diverse as Saturday Review, Harper's Bazaar, Fangoria, Gallery, and Twilight Zone. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.[1]
Publications
[edit]Books
[edit]- Run (2000) (Novel)
- A Little Brass Book of Full Metal Fiction (2004)
- Shadowings: The Reader’s Guide to Horror Fiction (1983) (Non-Fiction)
- Stephen King: The Art of Darkness (1984) (Non-Fiction)
- Faces of Fear: Encounters with the Creators of Modern Horror (1985) (Non-Fiction)
- Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic (2001) (Non-Fiction)
Short Fiction
[edit]- June 11, 1936 (1980)
- Child of Sorrow (Poem) (1980)
- Masks (1985)
- Street Life (1985)
- Splatter: A Cautionary Tale (1987)
- Office Hours (1987)
- The Happy Family (1989) (with Melissa Mia Hall)
- Less Than Zombie (1989)
- Black Sun (1991)
- Bright Lights, Big Zombie (1992)
- Loop (1995)
- Playing Dolls (1995) (with Melissa Mia Hall)
- The Zombies of Madison County (1997)
- Joy Divided (Poem) (1998)
- The Pathos of Genre (1999)
- Blessed Assurance (2003)
Editor
[edit]- Black Wine (1986)
- Night Visions 5 (1988)
- Prime Evil (1988)
- Revelations (1997)
Awards
[edit]| Work | Year & Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| Faces of Fear: Encounters with the Creators of Modern Horror | 1986 Locus Award | Non-Fiction/Reference | Nominated | [2] |
| 1986 Hugo Award | Related Work | Nominated | ||
| Black Wine | 1987 World Fantasy Award | Anthology/Collection | Nominated | |
| Splatter: A Cautionary Tale | 1988 World Fantasy Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
| Night Visions 5 | 1989 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| Prime Evil | 1989 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | |
| 1989 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | Nominated | ||
| Bright Lights, Big Zombie | 1992 Bram Stoker Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | |
| Black Sun | 1994 International Horror Guild Award | Short Fiction | Won | [3] |
| Loop | 1995 International Horror Guild Award | Short Fiction | Won | |
| 1996 World Fantasy Award | Short Fiction | Nominated | ||
| Millennium
(aka: Revelations) |
1997 International Horror Guild Award | Anthology | Won | |
| 1998 World Fantasy Award | Anthology | Nominated | ||
| 1998 Locus Award | Anthology | Nominated | ||
| The Zombies of Madison County | 1997 Bram Stoker Award | Long Fiction | Nominated | |
| 1998 World Fantasy Award | Novella | Nominated | ||
| Run | 2000 International Horror Guild Award | First Novel | Nominated | |
| 2000 Bram Stoker Award | First Novel | Nominated | ||
| 2001 Anthony Awards | First Novel | Nominated | ||
| Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic | 2002 International Horror Guild Award | Non-Fiction | Nominated | |
| 2002 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional | - | Nominated | ||
| 2003 Locus Award | Non-Fiction | Nominated |
Douglas Winter was also nominated for the 1983 World Fantasy Special Award—Professional award for writing & reviewing, won the 1986 World Fantasy Special Award—Non-professional award for reviewing & won the 2003 HWA Silver Hammer Award (Horror Writers Association).
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Douglas E. Winter: Ratchetting Up the Prose". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-02-14.
- ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards
- ^ https://horroraward.org/prevrec.html
External links
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