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Lisa Morton
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Lots of my writer friends are doing year-end wrap-ups of their 2012 accomplishments. I enjoy reading them. I'm happy to see sales made and books published. We have a good community.
I'm going to ask for a different indulgence, however. I want to write about the most amazing person in my life and how we almost lost her this year; unlike my fiction style, though, I'm not out to provoke dread throu... Read more of this blog post »
I'm going to ask for a different indulgence, however. I want to write about the most amazing person in my life and how we almost lost her this year; unlike my fiction style, though, I'm not out to provoke dread throu... Read more of this blog post »
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Monsters of L.A.
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The Lucid Dreaming
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Wild Girls
— published 2012 |
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The Castle of Los Angeles
by Lisa Morton (Goodreads Author), Gary A. Braunbeck — published 2010 |
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Midnight Walk
by Lisa Morton (Goodreads Author) , Jodi Renee Lester (Goodreads Author) , R.B. Payne — published 2009 — 2 editions |
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The Samhanach
by Lisa Morton (Goodreads Author), Frank Walls — 3 editions |
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The Halloween Encyclopedia
— published 2003 — 3 editions |
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Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
— published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Hell Manor
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A Hallowe'en Anthology: Literary and Historical Writings Over the Centuries
by Lisa Morton (Goodreads Author) , Augusta Gregory, Jane Wilde — published 2008 |
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I have been a fan of Lisa Morton's writing, both non-fiction and fiction and was extremely excited when I heard about her new novella "Wild Girls" published by Bad Moon Books.
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“What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed.”
― Lisa Morton, Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores
― Lisa Morton, Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores
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LADIES OF THE NIGHT
As is evident by the aforementioned authors [Joe Hill, Jonathan Maberry, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, Dean R. Koontz, F. Paul Wilson, Dan Simmons, Briane Keene, Nate Kenyon, John Everson, Gary A. Braunbeck, Robert Dunbar, and Jeff Strand] horror is still a very male-dominated world, but that does not mean there aren't good female writers producing top-notch horror, namely, Sarah Langan, Alexandra Sokoloff, Lisa Morton, Deborah LeBlanc, and Sarah Pinborough. What unites these women is more than their gender; they all are known for creating entertaining, terror-inducing novels, but with a lighter touch.* The horror here is quiet. There can be gruesome scenes, but it is the creation of the unsettling atmosphere that rules the works of these women.
*From what I've been hearing, I'm guessing Spratford hasn't read WILD GIRLS yet. :)
Spratford, P. 44:
LISA MORTON
Lisa Morton is an award-winning short-story writer and collection editor. Her work is consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening. In 2010 she released her first novel, THE CASTLE OF LOS ANGELES, and has proven that she will be a force to be reckoned with from now on. The "castle" of the title is a theater of which the female protagonist becomes the new owner. But something is note right. It is quiet horror, where subtle, disturbing things, happen without any outright gory scenes. It is an introspective story, a ghost story, and a homage to the theater community, all in one. Fans of Sokoloff and Langan will love Morton.