Brian McNaughton
Brian McNaughton | |
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Born | (1935-09-23)23 September 1935 Red Bank, New Jersey |
Died | 13 May 2004(2004-05-13) (aged 68) |
Occupation | Writer |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Brian McNaughton (23 September 1935 – 13 May 2004) was an American writer of horror and fantasy fiction who mixed sex, satire and black humour. He also wrote thrillers.
Biography
Born at Red Bank, New Jersey, McNaughton attended Harvard and worked for ten years as a reporter for the Newark Evening News. He later held a variety of other jobs, meanwhile publishing about two hundred short stories in magazines and several books.
Several of his novels were first published by Carlyle Books under editorially imposed titles implying that they were part of a series. Although Worse Things Waiting follows on from Downward to Darkness, the other books featured completely unrelated characters and situations. Restored texts of these books have been published by Wildside Press under their original titles.
His work includes literary nods to writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and Bram Stoker. His story "The Return of the Colossus" is a sequel to Smith's "The Colossus of Ylourgne" set during World War I; while the title of "To My Dear Friend Hommy-Beg" echoes Stoker's dedication for Dracula.
The Throne of Bones, a collection of horror-fantasy stories about ghouls set in an opulent, decadent world reminiscent of Clark Ashton Smith, won the World Fantasy Award[1] for best collection and was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection.
Bibliography
Novels
- In Flagrant Delight (1972)
- Gemini Rising (1977; editorially altered version published as Satan's Love Child; restored text 2000)
- Buster Callan (1978)
- Downward to Darkness (1978; editorially altered version published as Satan's Mistress; restored text 2000)
- Guilty Until Proven Guilty (1979)
- Worse Things Waiting (1979; editorially altered version published as Satan's Seductress; restored text 2000)
- The House Across the Way (1982; editorially altered version published as Satan's Surrogate; restored text 2001)
Short story collections
- The Throne of Bones (1997)
- Nasty Stories (2000)
- Even More Nasty Stories (2000)
References
- ^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on 1 December 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
External links
- Author page at Goodreads
- Brian McNaughton at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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- Worse Things Waiting by Manly Wade Wellman (1975)
- The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson (1976)
- Frights by Kirby McCauley (1977)
- Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B. Cave (1978)
- Shadows by Charles L. Grant (1979)
- Amazons! by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1980)
- Dark Forces by Kirby McCauley (1981)
- The Dark Country by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (1982)
- Nightmare Seasons by Charles L. Grant (1983)
- High Spirits by Robertson Davies (1984)
- Books of Blood, Vols. I-III by Clive Barker (1985)
- Imaginary Lands by Robin McKinley (1986)
- Tales of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree Jr. (1987)
- The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard (1988)
- Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison / Storeys from the Old Hotel by Gene Wolfe (1989, tie)
- Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson (1990)
- The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories by Carol Emshwiller (1991)
- The Ends of the Earth by Lucius Shepard (1992)
- The Sons of Noah & Other Stories by Jack Cady (1993)
- Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell (1994)
- The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist by Bradley Denton (1995)
- The Grass Princess by Gwyneth Jones (1996)
- The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem (1997)
- The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton (1998)
- Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler (1999)
- Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint / Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson (2000, tie)
- Beluthahatchie and Other Stories by Andy Duncan (2001)
- Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson (2002)
- The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003)
- Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004)
- Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005)
- The Keyhole Opera by Bruce Holland Rogers (2006)
- Map of Dreams by M. Rickert (2007)
- Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman (2008)
- The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford (2009)
- There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya / The Best of Gene Wolfe by Gene Wolfe (2010, tie)
- What I Didn't See and Other Stories by Karen Joy Fowler (2011)
- The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers (2012)
- Where Furnaces Burn by Joel Lane (2013)
- The Ape's Wife and Other Stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2014)
- The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings by Angela Slatter / Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall (2015, tie)
- Bone Swans by C. S. E. Cooney (2016)
- A Natural History of Hell by Jeffrey Ford (2017)
- The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen (2018)
- The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell (2019)
- Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson (2020)
- Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (2021)
- Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan by Usman T. Malik (2022)