Writer's Workshop Guest of Honor

Mort Castle edited the essential reference work Writing Horror: The Horror Writers Association Handbook, and has written novels, short stories,
articles, comic books, poetry, and ad copy. Mr. Castle is Writer-in-Residence for three Chicago area high schools, teaches in the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia Col-

lege, and has been a presenter at more than 1,000 workshops, seminars, and writing programs.

Mr. Castle wrote CURSED BE THE CHILD and the novel was deemed a horror novel "classic" by RAVE REVIEWS.

Cited as one of "21 Leaders in the Arts for the 21st Century in Chicagoland'" (The Star), Castle is Writer-in-Residence for three Chicago area high schools, teaches in the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia College, and has been a presenter at more than 1,000 workshops, seminars, and writing programs.
Sample List of Mr. Castle's work. In Memoriam: Papa, Blake and HPL

 

The Deadly Election (1976)
The Strangers (1984)
Cursed Be the Child (1990)
Moon on the Water (2000)
Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead (2002)

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