David Niall Wilson

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David Niall Wilson (born 1959 in Clay County, Illinois) is primarily known for his works of horror, science fiction, and fantasy fiction.

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[edit] Background

Wilson was raised in Charleston, Illinois, and attended Charleston High School, and joined the United States Navy upon graduation, where he served from 1977 to 1997.

He is an ordained minister in the Universal Light Church and a former president of the Horror Writer's Association. David won the Bram Stoker Award for professional achievement in horror poetry.

His 1999 novel, This is My BloodWhich is currently released as The Temptation of Blood contains books of a fictional gospel of Judas Iscariot. This novel, which also features Mary Magdalene as a fallen angel, cursed with a form of vampirism, oddly mirrors information recently translated in the coptic codex ascribed to Judas Iscariot, both works featuring Judas as the best of the apostles, as being the only one who fully understood Christ's teachings, and as the one to lay down his own life for the salvation of all.

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[edit] Novels

[edit] Collections

  • Spinning Webs and Telling Lies (Limited Trade Paperback 2002)
  • The Subtle Ties That Bind (2002, Lone Wolf Publications CD Rom)
  • Defining Moments (2006 Sarob Press Signed limited HC)

[edit] Short Stories and Poetry

  • Poet Cabal: (one poem)
  • The Essential World of Darkness: "Except You Go Through Shadow--Wraith"
  • 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories: "Just Another Saturday Night"
  • Robert Bloch's Psychosis: "Blameless (1998, ISBN 0-671-88598-7)
  • The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume I: "The Mole" (2000, ISBN 0-451-45804-4)
  • Horrors! 365 Scary Stories: (seven short stories) (2001, ISBN 1-58663-240-X)
  • The Gossamer Eye (2002, ISBN 1-892065-64-9, with Mark McLaughlin and Rain Graves) (winner of the 2003 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in the Poetry Collection category)
  • All Hell Breaking Loose: "Burning Bridges" (2005, ISBN 0-7564-0289-1)
  • Shadows over Baker Street: New Tales of Terror: "Death Did Not Become Him" (2005, ISBN 0-345-45273-9, with Patricia Lee Macomber)
  • Cthulhu's Heirs: New Cthulhu Mythos Fiction: "Of Dark Things and Midnight Planes" (1994, ISBN 1-56882-013-5)

His short stories have appeared in more than thirty anthologies, in magazines, and on web sites.

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