HWA Special Guest
DENNIS ETCHISON lives in Los Angeles, California. He has been called "the most original
living horror writer in America" (The Viking-Penguin Encyclopedia) and "the finest writer of psychological
horror this genre has produced" (Karl Edward Wagner, Year's Best Horror Stories). His stories have
appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies since 1961.
Some of the most best-known are included in his collections The Dark Country (1982), Red Dreams (1984), The Blood Kiss (1987), The Death Artist (2000), Talking in the Dark (2001) and Fine Cuts (2006). The title story of the first volume won the World Fantasy Award in 1982 (tied with Stephen King), as well as the British Fantasy Award that same year—the first time one writer received both major awards for a single work.
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A new collection of his short fiction, Got to Kill Them All & Other Stories, was recently published by Cemetery Dance Publications.
He has also achieved fame as a novelist (The Fog, Darkside, Shadowman, California Gothic and Double Edge) and editor (Cutting Edge, Masters of Darkness I-III, MetaHorror, The Museum of Horrors and Gathering the Bones), winning two more British Fantasy Awards and two more World Fantasy Awards for his writing and editing. Other novels include the best-sellers Halloween II, Halloween III and Videodrome, all written under the pseudonym "Jack Martin".
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Etchison also writes magazine articles, film reviews and scripts, including screenplays for John Carpenter and Dario Argento, and was Supervising Editor for Tapping the Vein, a graphic novel series based on the Books of Blood by Clive Barker. Since 2002 he has adapted all 156 episodes of the original Twilight Zone TV series for broadcast world-wide on The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas. He also served as staff writer for the HBO television series The Hitchhiker.
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Dennis Etchison was President of the Horror Writers Association from 1992 to 1994, and he is attending the convention as that organisation's representative.
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Photo © Lisa Morton 
Dennis Etchison with Ramsey Campbell |
External Links
Wikipedia Entry for Dennis Etchison