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WILLIAM F. NOLAN
Dark fantasy & horror fiction from the co-author of Logan's Run.
"Veteran Nolan shows the versatility that earned him a 2005 Living Legend Award from the International Horror Guild in this collection of 23 previously uncollected stories."
--Publishers Weekly
- December 2007 978-0-9789078-4-6
- Cover design by Patrick Swenson
Dark fantasy & horror fiction from the co-author of Logan's Run.
"Veteran Nolan shows the versatility that earned him a 2005 Living Legend Award from the International Horror Guild in this collection of 23 previously uncollected stories."
--Publishers Weekly
"Veteran Nolan shows the versatility that earned him a 2005 Living Legend Award from the International Horror Guild in this collection of 23 previously uncollected stories. Most are short, sharp horror shockers that end with an O. Henry–type twist, though several range freely into fantasy and science fiction. Among the best are tales with a crime angle. In “Listening to Billy,” a man finds his frustration with his deteriorating marriage stoked to murderous violence by a fellow bar patron who proves to be something weirdly more than he appears. In “Silk and Fire,” a James M. Cain homage, a private detective finds himself unwittingly played by a double-crossing client. “Ripper!”—an effective exercise in supernatural noir—imagines the horror that might happen were the spirit of Jack the Ripper to accompany London Bridge on its transfer from England to Arizona. Whether writing from the perspective of a love-struck werewolf or a serial killer desperately trying to suppress his violent urges, Nolan shows a command of the short story form that's a tribute to his 50 years of perfecting his craft."
--Publishers Weekly
"An expert in the art and science of scaring the hell out of people."
—Stephen King
"One of horror's best storytellers."
—Peter Straub
"A master of the short form."
—Dean Koontz
"I am terrified, delighted, and truly moved by Bill Nolan's work."
—Ray Bradbury
Nolan was born in 1928 in Kansas City Missouri. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute and worked as an artist for Hallmark Cards. He moved to California in the late 1940s and studied at San Diego State College. He began concentrating on writing rather than art and, in 1952, was introduced by Ray Bradbury to another young up-and-coming author, Charles Beaumont. Moving to the Los Angeles area in 1953, Nolan became along with Bradbury, Beaumont, and Richard Matheson part of the "inner core" of the soon-to-be highly influential "Southern California Group" of writers. By 1956 Nolan was a full-time writer. Since 1951 he has sold more than 1500 stories, articles, books, and other works.
--Publishers Weekly
"An expert in the art and science of scaring the hell out of people."
—Stephen King
"One of horror's best storytellers."
—Peter Straub
"A master of the short form."
—Dean Koontz
"I am terrified, delighted, and truly moved by Bill Nolan's work."
—Ray Bradbury
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nolan was born in 1928 in Kansas City Missouri. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute and worked as an artist for Hallmark Cards. He moved to California in the late 1940s and studied at San Diego State College. He began concentrating on writing rather than art and, in 1952, was introduced by Ray Bradbury to another young up-and-coming author, Charles Beaumont. Moving to the Los Angeles area in 1953, Nolan became along with Bradbury, Beaumont, and Richard Matheson part of the "inner core" of the soon-to-be highly influential "Southern California Group" of writers. By 1956 Nolan was a full-time writer. Since 1951 he has sold more than 1500 stories, articles, books, and other works.