William Browning Spencer
William Browning Spencer (born 1946) is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer living in Austin, Texas. His science fiction and horror stories are often darkly and surreally humorous. His novel Resume With Monsters conflates soul-destroying H. P. Lovecraftian horrors with soul-destroying lousy jobs. His story "The Death of the Novel" was a 1995 Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Short Story.
In 2005, his short story "Pep Talk" was turned into a short film by writer Eric B. Anderson and director Scott Smith (Project Greenlight) and premiered at the Santa Fe Film Festival in December 2006.
Bibliography
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Novels
- Spencer, William Browning (1990). Maybe I'll call Anna. Sag Harbor, New York: Permanent Press.
- Resume With Monsters (1995, novel)
- Zod Wallop (1995, novel)
- Irrational Fears (1998, novel)
Short fiction
Collections
- The Return of Count Electric(1993, short story collection)
- The Ocean and All Its Devices (2006, short story collection)
List of short stories
- "Best Man" (1993)
- "A Child's Christmas in Florida" (1993)
- "Daughter Doom" (1993)
- "The Entomologists at Obala" (1993)
- "Graven Images" (1993)
- "Haunted by the Horror King" (1993)
- "Irrational Fears" (1993)
- "Looking Out for Eleanor" (1993)
- "Pep Talk" (1993)
- "The Return of Count Electric" (1993)
- "Snow" (1993)
- "The Wedding Photographer in Crisis" (1993)
- "The Ocean and All Its Devices" (1994)
- "The Death of the Novel" (1995), Bram Stoker Best Short Story Award 1996
- "Downloading Midnight" (1995)
- "The Oddskeeper's Daughter" (1995)
- "The Halfway House At the Heart of Darkness" (1998)
- "Stone and the Librarian" (2007)
- "The Tenth Muse" (2007)
- "Penguins of the Apocalypse" (2008)
- "The Essayist in the Wilderness" (2011)
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
The foster child | 2000 | Spencer, William Browning (Jun 2000). "The foster child". F&SF. 98 (6): 71–81. | ||
Anthologies containing stories by William Browning Spencer
- Ghosttide (1993)
- Borderlands 4 (1994)
- Christmas Magic (1994)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction Eleventh Annual Collection (1994)
- Wheel of Fortune (1995)
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
- 100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
- Year's Best SF (1996)
- Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of H P Lovecraft in Popular Culture (1998)
- Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny (1998)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection (1999)
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twenty-First Annual Collection (2008)
- New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird (2011)
Unpublished work
- Endless Laundry (unpublished)
External links
- Book group recount of an evening with William Browning Spencer
- Interview from 1999 at "Crescent Blues"
- Fantastic Fiction summary for William Browning Spencer
- Nova Express Interview
- Review of Irrational Fears
- Review of The Ocean and All Its Devices
- Another Review of The Ocean and All Its Devices
- Review of Resume with Monsters
- New York Times Review of Zod Wallop
- Review of Zod Wallop
- William Browning Spencer at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/28/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.