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Al Sarrantonio

(b.1952)

AL SARRANTONIO is the author of thirty books. He is a winner of the Bram Stoker Award and has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the International Horror Guild Award and the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award. His novels, spanning the horror, science fiction, fantasy, mystery and western genres, include Moonbane, Skeletons, House Haunted, The Five Worlds Trilogy, West Texas, Orangefield and Hallows Eve, the last two part of his continuing Halloween cycle of stories.

He has edited numerous anthologies, including the highly acclaimed 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction and the upcoming Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy. His short stories have appeared in magazines such as Heavy Metal, Twilight Zone, Cemetery Dance, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Analog and Amazing, as well as in anthologies such as The Year's Best Horror Stories, Visions of Fantasy: Tales from the Masters, Great Ghost Stories and The Best of Shadows.

His best horror stories have been collected in Toybox and Hornets and Others. He has had numerous book club sales, and his work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and appeared in comic book form. He lives in New York's historic Hudson Valley region with his family.

Awards: Jackson (2011) see all

Genres: Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery

Series

Jack Paine
Cold Night (1989)
Summer Cool (1993)

Novel of the West
West Texas (1991)
Kitt Peak (1993)

Five Worlds
   1. Exile (1996)
   2. Journey (1997)
   3. Return (1998)

Masters of Mars
   1. Haydn of Mars (2004)
   2. Sebastian of Mars (2005)
   3. Queen of Mars (2006)

Orangefield
   1. Horrorween (2006)
   2. Hallows Eve (2004)
   3. Halloweenland (2007)
   Orange Lake (2015)

Novels

   Totentanz (1985)
   The Worms (1985)
   Campbell Wood (1986)
   The Boy with Penny Eyes (1987)
   Moonbane (1989)
   October (1990)
   House Haunted (1991)
   Skeletons (1992)
   Orangefield (2002)
   The Pumpkin Boy (2005)
   Underground (2013)

Collections

   Toybox (1999)
   Hornets and Others (2005)
   Halloween and Other Seasons (2008)
   Al Sarrantonio's Book of Holidays (2014)

Novellas and Short Stories

Sisters in Mystery (2012)
The Crane House (2012) (with Kealan Patrick Burke, Brian James Freeman, Ray Garton, Rick Hautala, Brian Keene, Ronald Kelly, James A Moore, James Newman, Norman Prentiss and Bev Vincent)

Anthologies edited

   The Fireside Treasury of Great Humor (1975)
   The National Lampoon Treasury of Humor (1983)
   The Fireside Treasury of New Humor (1989)
   One Hundred Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (1993) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Treasury of Great Humor (1996)
   999 (1999)
   Redshift (2001)
   Flights (2004)
   Stories: All-New Tales (2008) (with Neil Gaiman)
   Halloween: New Poems (2010)

Series contributed to

Babylon 5
8. Personal Agendas (1997)

Little Book Series I
A Little Yellow Book of Fevered Stories (2007)

Books containing stories by Al Sarrantonio

Halloween Carnival Volume 2 (2017)
(Halloween Carnival)
edited by
Brian James Freeman

Dark Hallows (2015)
10 Halloween Haunts
(Dark Hallows, book 1)
edited by
Mark Parker

Shivers VII (2013)
(Shivers , book 7)
edited by
Richard Chizmar

More books

Awards

2011 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Edited Anthology : Stories: All-New Tales

Award nominations

	1991 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (nominee) : Richard's Head
	1990 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (nominee) : Cold Night

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