Joel Lane

This article is about the British writer. For the North Carolina colonist, see Joel Lane House.
The writer and journalist Joel Lane.

Joel Lane (1963 – 25 November 2013[1]) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, critic and anthology editor. He received the World Fantasy Award in 2013 and the British Fantasy Award twice.

Profile

Works

Born in Exeter, he was the nephew of tenor saxophonist Ronnie Scott. At the time of his death, Lane lived in south Birmingham, where he worked in health publishing. The latter city frequently provided settings for his fiction.

Although the majority of Lane's short stories can be categorised as horror or dark fantasy, his novels are more overtly mainstream. From Blue to Black (2000) is a portrait of a disturbed rock musician, whilst The Blue Mask (2003) follows the aftermath of a brutal and disfiguring attack. As a gay man, Lane wrote several stories that included queer themes.

Something Remains, edited by Peter Coleborn and Pauline E. Dungate, (Alchemy Press, 2016) is a collection of stories by other hands “based on and inspired by the notes left by Joel Lane”. [2] This Spectacular Darkness, edited by Mark Valentine and John Howard (Tartarus Press, 2016), is a collection of his critical essays on fantasy and horror fiction, together with appreciations of his work. [3]

Guest appearances

Lane addressed the Birmingham Science Fiction Group in March 2002 and was a guest speaker at Microcon 30 in March 2010.

Politics

Lane joined the Socialist Party in 2009 and contributed to its newspaper, the Socialist, and its journal, Socialism Today.[4]

Partial bibliography

Fiction

Novels

Novella

Single author short story collections

Poetry

Anthologies

Awards

References

External links

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