J.N. Williamson - Biografia-Bibliografia

09 ottobre 2023 J.N. Williamson - Biografia-Bibliografia

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Note biografiche e bibliografia di J.N. Williamson

J.N. Williamson - Biografia
Biografia e foto di J.N. Williamson

Gerald Neal Williamson, nato a Indianapolis il 17 aprile 1932 e morto a Noblesville nello stato dell'Indiana l'8 dicembre 2005, è stato un editore, saggista e uno scrittore americano di genere horror e di fantascienza.

Diplomato alla Shortridge High School, studiò giornalismo alla Butler University per poi lavorare come venditore, astrologo e scrivendo racconti a intermittenza.

Nel 1979 pubblicò il suo primo romanzo nel 1979 e ne scrisse altri 31 nei 15 anni successivi ed, essendo stato assieme a Stephen King uno dei più prolifici ed eccellenti scrittori di romanzi horror degli anni Ottanta, nel 2003 ricevette il premio alla carriera dell'Horror Writers Association.

Una fotografia di J.N. Williamson

Nel 1987 si dedicò al saggio How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume che con il contributo di altri importanti scrittori racconta i temi della scrittura horror e cita opere di scrittori come Robert Bloch, Lee Prosser, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, HP Lovecraft, August Derleth, William F. Nolan e Stephen King. .

Per un lungo periodo curò Masques, una popolare serie di antologie che divenne vero trampolino di lancio per scrittori affermati e non.



J.N. Williamson - Bibliografia

Romanzi in serie
  • Ghost Mansion
    1. Ghost Mansion 1981
    2. Horror Mansion 1982
  • Lamia Zacharius
    1. Death-Coach 1981
    2. Death-Angel 1981
    3. Death-School 1982
    4. Death-Doctor 1982
  • Martin Ruben
    1. The Ritual 1979
    2. Premonition 1981
    3. Brotherkind 1982
Romanzi
    • The Houngan 1980 o Profits 1984
    • Horror House 1981
    • Queen of Hell 1981
    • The Banished 1981
    • The Tulpa 1981
    • Extraterrestrial 1982 (come Julian Shock)
    • Playmates 1982
    • The Evil One 1982
    • The Dentist 1983
    • The Offspring 1984
    • Ghost 1984
    • Babel's Children 1984
    • The Longest Night 1985
    • Wards of Armageddon 1986 (con John Maclay)
    • Noonspell 1987
    • Evil Offspring 1987
    • Dead to the World 1988
    • The Black School 1989
    • Shadows of Death 1989
    • Hell Storm 1991
    • The Night Seasons 1991
    • The Monastery 1992
    • The Book of Webster's 1993 o Spree 1998
    • Don't Take Away the Light 1993
    • Bloodlines 1994
    • The Haunt 1999
    • Affinity 2001
Raccolte
    • Anomalies 1983
    • Nevermore! 1983
    • The Naked Flesh of Feeling 1991
    • The Fifth Season 1993
    • Frights of Fancy 2000
Magazine Editor Series
  • SPWAO Showcase
    • 7 SPWAO Showcase #7, 1989-1990 1989
Antologie in serie (come curatore)
  • Masques
    1. Masques 1984
    2. Masques II 1987 o Masques Two 1989
      • 1988 - Masques II - Horror Story 1, Garden Editoriale
    3. Masques III 1989 o Fleshcreepers 1990
    4. Masques IV 1991
    5. Masques V 2006 (con Gary A. Braunbeck)
    • The Best of Masques 1988
    • Dark Masques 2001 (raccolta contiene i volumi 1-2 della serie)
    • Darker Masques 2002 (raccolta contiene i volumi 3-4 della serie
Racconti
    • Time to Murder 1966
    • They Never Even See Me 1970
    • Golden Years 1976
    • Statement of the Accused 1977 o Home Free 1977
    • "Absolute Peace and Quiet" 1983
    • Anything to Help the Duke 1983
    • Belonging 1983
    • Keeping Christmas 1983
    • Stalemate 1983
    • The Dotted Line 1983
    • Turning 40 for Fun and Prophet 1983
    • Review of the Latest Arrivals 1983
    • Leitmotif 1984
    • Milestones 1984
    • Vital Parts 1984
    • House Mothers 1984
    • Nature and Mr. Humphries 1984
    • Small Gift from Home 1984
    • The Bus People 1985
    • The Dearly Departed 1985
    • The Gap Nearly Closed Today 1985
    • Uncoverup 1985
    • "Don't" 1985
    • A Matter of Identification 1985
    • Little Doll from the Backwoods 1985
    • Souvenir 1985
    • Aspirations 1985
    • I'll Give You My Magic, If You'll Give Me Your Love 1985
    • Orwell Redux 1985
    • Flush 1985 with Milton Hillman
    • One Look at You & the Earth Moves Beneath My Feet 1985
    • Bleed Bargaining 1986
    • Hellter-Shelter! 1986
    • If I Make My Bed in Hell 1986
    • Renunciations 1986
    • The Book of Webster's 1986
    • The Bountiful Spirit 1986
    • The Night Seasons 1986
    • The Scars of Bonding 1986
    • The House of Life 1986
    • The Legend of Lincoln County 1986
    • The Queerness of Time 1986
    • The Final Stages of the Creeping Crud 1986
    • Devil's Powder 1986
    • Conspiracies 1987
    • Privacy Rights 1987
    • Starry Coping 1987
    • The Better Half 1987 (con John Maclay)
    • Townkiller 1987
    • Wordsong 1987
      • 1988 - Wordsong in Masques II - Horror Story 1, Garden Editoriale
      • 1995 - Wordsong in Popsy e altri racconti - Economica Tascabile 23, Fanucci Editore
    • Happy Hour 1987
    • Watchwolf 1987
    • After-Howl 1988
    • Fancy That 1988
    • Nosmael 1988
    • Public Places 1988
    • Mercy 1988
    • Two Floor Generals and the Sweetheart Dance 1988
    • Amorphous 1988
    • Jezebel 1989
    • Monstrum 1989
      • 1989 - Monstrum in Estate Horror 1993. Mostri. 37 racconti - Horror 4, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
    • The Unkindest Cut 1989
    • Overnight Pass 1989 (con John Maclay)
    • You'd Better Watch Out 1989
    • Too Hideous to be Played 1989
    • Everyone Must Know... 1989
    • Pact 1989
    • Vampire Nostalgia 1989
    • The Sudd 1989
    • Parnassus on Wheels II 1990
    • The Bridge People 1990
    • My Brother, the Sex Fiend 1990 (con D.W. Taylor)
    • Sleepover 1990
    • Happier Endings 1990
    • Wotan's Oak 1990
    • No Love Lost 1991
    • Something Extra 1991 (con James Kisner)
    • The Oldest Human Trick 1991
    • Herrenrasse 1991
    • Collaborationists 1991
    • Land of the Second Chance 1991
    • Eater of the Dead 1992
    • The Train Man 1992
    • Watchful Eyes 1992
    • Free Among the Dead 1992
    • The Girl of My Dreams 1992
    • Cycles 1993
    • God's Mouth to Your Ear 1993
    • Health Hazard 1993
    • Just One More Thing People Can Do 1993
    • Reality Function 1993
    • Snowlight 1993
    • The Carolers 1993
    • Troth 1993
    • Dead Body Run 1993
    • Frankenstein Seen in the Ice of Extinction 1993
    • Child of the Sea 1994
    • Indecent Proponent 1994
    • The Autonomic Nervous System, Klaus Von Clausewitz, and Omilian 1994
    • The Field of Blood 1994
    • The Last Nazi Invasion 1994
    • Mostly the Evil Shows 1994
    • The Vardoger 1994
    • Origin of a Species 1995
    • Time Tells Us 1995
    • Vladimir's Conversions 1995
    • The Mother Pact 1995
    • High Concept 1995
    • A Misunderstanding at Midnight 1995
    • The Last Link Between Life and Death 1995
    • Beasts in Buildings, Turning 'Round 1996
    • On the Late Train Through Texas 1996
    • Two Hands Are Better Than One 1996
    • Hildekin and the Big Diehl 1996
    • The Piano Player Has No Fingers 1997
    • It Does Not Come Alone 1997
    • A. Pyme 2000
    • Pick-Up 2000
    • When Nature Itself Creates Them 2000
    • Outcry 2006