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Brian Evenson


(b.1966)

aka B K Evenson

Brian Evenson received an O. Henry Award for his story "Two Brothers" and has twice received O. Henry honorable mentions. In 1995 he received an NEA Fellowship; that same year he was told by Brigham Young University that if he continued to write fiction in the same vein as his first book, he would be fired. Instead, Evenson chose to leave of his own free will to teach at Oklahoma State University. He now teaches in the creative writing program at Brown University.
 

Awards: WFA (2020), Jackson (2020)  see all

Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy
 
Series
Dead Space
   1. Martyr (2010)
   2. Catalyst (2012)
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Novels
   Father of Lies (1998)
   Dark Property (2002)
   The Open Curtain (2006)
   Last Days (2009)
   Immobility (2012)
   The Lords of Salem (2013) (as by B K Evenson) (with Rob Zombie)
   The Deaths of Henry King (2016) (with Jesse Ball)
   Feral (2017) (with James DeMonaco (as by B K Evenson) )
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Collections
   Altmann's Tongue (1994)
   The Din of Celestial Birds (1997)
   Contagion (2000)
   The Wavering Knife (2004)
   Fugue State (2009)
   Windeye (2012)
   A Collapse of Horses (2016)
   Future Dreams (2018) (with others)
   Whose Future Is It? (2018) (with others)
   Song for the Unraveling of the World (2019)
   The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell (2021)
   Pluto in Furs 2 (2022) (with others)
   None of You Shall Be Spared (2023)
   Good Night, Sleep Tight (2024)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Brotherhood of Mutilation (2003)
   The Warren (2016)
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Series contributed to
Aliens (Dark Horse)
   Aliens: No Exit (2008) (as by B K Evenson)
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HALO Collections
   Evolutions (2009) (with others)
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Books containing stories by Brian Evenson
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And One Day We Will Die (2025)
Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel
edited by
Patrick Barb
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Winter in the City (2024)
A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction
edited by
Anna Koon and R B Wood
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The Best Horror of the Year Volume 16 (2024)
(Best Horror of the Year, book 16)
edited by
Ellen Datlow

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Awards
2020 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection : Song for the Unraveling of the World
2020 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection : Song for the Unraveling of the World

Award nominations
2019 Ray Bradbury Prize (nominee) : Song for the Unraveling of the World
2018 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : The Second Door
2017 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella (nominee) : The Warren
2013 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (nominee) : Windeye
2013 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Immobility
2010 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Fugue State
2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (nominee) : Fugue State
2010 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Last Days
2010 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Last Days
2010 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Fugue State
2007 Edgar Award for Best Paperback original (nominee) : The Open Curtain


Brian Evenson recommends
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The Forger's Requiem (2025)
(Forgers, book 3)
Bradford Morrow
"Most sequels end up feeling like a pale shadow of their originals, but this one's more like a long-lost twin: unexpected and differently scary. The Forger's Daughter is a fully-formed and satisfying complication of the problems in The Forgers, a morally complex look at the way we forge the bonds of family and friendship, and the very real way in which these bonds are, in a sense, forgeries. This is a book about both what we hide and what we agree not to look at too closely so as to be able to go on living not only with those around us, but with ourselves."
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At Dark, I Become Loathsome (2025)
Eric LaRocca
"When people think of transgressive literature, they all too often think of it as an assault on the reader: external, aggressive, alienating. What makes LaRocca's work so effective is not only how transgressive it is but how humane it is. These are not transgressions you can stand outside of. Instead, because of his skill reeling us into close proximity with the characters, the transgressions feel intimate, almost as if we were in the process of committing them ourselves. Which makes them all the more relatable, and all the more alarming."
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Sacrificial Animals (2024)
Kailee Pedersen
"A delicately braided and unflinching tale of inherited family damage and revenge that walks a careful line between the realistic and the supernatural, crossing from one into the other before you--or the hapless characters--are fully aware. Sacrificial Animals reads like what might happen if Cormac McCarthy and Lafcadio Hearn were stuck waiting out a snowstorm in Nebraska and decided to collaborate."

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