William Browning Spencer
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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 of 2006.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Books
- Endless Laundry (unpublished)
- Maybe I'll Call Anna (1990, novel)
- The Return of Count Electric (1993, short story collection)
- Resume With Monsters (1995, novel)
- Zod Wallop (1995, novel)
- Irrational Fears (1998, novel)
- Ocean and All Its Devices (2006, short story collection)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
- The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection (1999)
[edit] 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