Morton, Lisa
Photo by Seth Ryan
Awards:
Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times (McFarland), Graphic Novel, 2012
Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween (Reaktion Books), Non-fiction, 2012
The Castle of Los Angeles, First Novel, 2010
The Lucid Dreaming, Long Fiction, 2009
A Hallowe’en Anthology, Non-fiction, 2008
“Tested”, Short Fiction, 2006
Richard Laymon President’s Award, 2006
Richard Laymon President’s Award, 2005
Nominations:
Malediction (Evil Jester Press), Novel, 2013
Monsters of L.A., Fiction Collection, 2011
The Samhanach, Long Fiction, 2010
Midnight Walk, Anthology, 2009
BIO: Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, and award-winning prose writer whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening”. She is the author of four novels and more than 150 short stories, a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award®, and a world-class Halloween expert. She co-edited (with Leslie Klinger) the anthology Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense (which Publishers Weekly gave a starred review to and called “a work of art”); upcoming is Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances. Lisa lives in Los Angeles and online at lisamorton.com .