Al Sarrantonio's Hallows Eve

Al Sarrantonio (born May 25, 1952, in New York City, New York) is an American horror and science fiction author who has published, over the past twenty-five years, more than forty books and sixty short stories. He has also edited numerous anthologies and has been called “a master anthologist” by Booklist. May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Flag Seal Nickname: Big Apple Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,214. ... Official language(s) None, English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... Horror can mean several things: Horror (emotion) Horror fiction Horror film This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ...

Background and education

Sarrantonio was born in New York City and grew up in Hicksville, on Long Island. He began his professional career at the age of 16 with a nonfiction appearance in the legendary Ray Palmer’s publication Flying Saucers. He continued to write throughout university, and in 1974, after graduation from Manhattan College with a B.A. in English, he attended the Clarion Science Fiction Writers Workshop at Michigan State University. Other prominent attendees that year were Bruce Sterling and James Patrick Kelly. Hicksville is a hamlet (and census-designated place) located in Nassau County, New York. ... Mercator projection of Long Island Long Island is an island in New York, USA. It has an area of 1,377 square miles (3567 km²) and a population of 7. ... Raymond A. Palmer (1910-1977) was the influential editor of Amazing Stories from 1938 through 1949, when he left publisher Ziff-Davis to form his own company. ... A magazine published and edited by Raymond A. Palmer. ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Manhattan College is a Catholic college in the Lasallian tradition in New York City. ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... Clarion is a six-week workshop for new and aspiring science fiction writers founded by Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm. ... Michigan State University (MSU) is a public university in East Lansing, Michigan. ... Bruce Sterling at the Ars Electronica Festival Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his seminal work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which defined the cyberpunk genre. ... Front cover of Burn (2005). ...

Career

In 1976 Sarrantonio began a professional editing career at a major New York publishing house. His first short fiction, “Ahead of the Joneses,” appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine in 1978, followed by a story in Heavy Metal magazine the following year. In 1980 he published 14 short stories. In 1982, after leaving publishing to become a full time writer, he began his first novel, The Worms, followed by Campbell Wood, Totentanz and The Boy with Penny Eyes. He quickly established himself in the horror field with such much-anthologized stories as “Pumpkin Head”, “The Man With Legs”, “Father Dear,” “Wish”, and “Richard’s Head,” (all of which appear in his first short story collection, Toybox). “Richard’s Head” brought him his first Bram Stoker Award nomination. 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Asimovs Science Fiction is a science fiction magazine, first published in 1977 as Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine or IASFM for short. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Jean-Michel Nicollets cover for the first issue. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Horror can mean several things: Horror (emotion) Horror fiction Horror film This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article is in need of attention. ... The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for superior achievement in horror writing. ...

Sarrantonio is currently in the midst of a horror saga revolving around Halloween, which takes place in the fictional upstate New York town of Orangefield (novels to date: Hallows Eve and Horrorween, which incorporates three shorter Orangefield pieces: the short novel Orangefield, and novelettes Hornets and The Pumpkin Boy). Other horror novels include Moonbane, October and Skeletons. He has also written Westerns (West Texas and Kitt Peak), mysteries (Cold Night and Summer Cool) and science fiction (the Edgar Rice Burroughs-inflected trilogy Haydn of Mars, Sebastian of Mars and Queen of Mars, omnibused as Masters of Mars by the Science Fiction Book Club, 2006). To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Upstate New York is the region of New York State outside of the core of the New York metropolitan area. ... A novelette (or novelet) is a piece of short prose fiction. ... Look up West in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In modern colloquial English, a mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction (see mystery fiction). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Edgar Rice Burroughs Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, although he also produced works in many genres. ... The Book of the Month Club (founded 1923) is a mail-order business where consumers are offered a new book each month. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Sarrantonio was book reviewer for Night Cry magazine, the short-lived digest-sized offshoot of the Twilight Zone Magazine, and has been a critic and columnist for other publications. Because he has worn so many hats (novelist, short story writer, critic, essayist, editor, anthologist) and worked in so many genres (he has even edited three collections of humor, including The National Lampoon Treasure of Humor) his work, always interesting and often brilliant, has not, perhaps, gained the attention it deserves. Night Cry was a short-lived but highly-regarded horror and fantasy fiction companion to The Twilight Zone Magazine in the latter 1980s; unlike TZ, Night Cry was a digest-sized magazine rather than a standard 8. ... The word critic comes from the Greek κριτικός, kritikós - one who discerns, which itself arises from the Ancient Greek word κριτής, krités, meaning a person who offers reasoned judgement or analysis, value judgement, interpretation, or observation. ... A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... This article is in need of attention. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. ... An Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ... An anthology is a collection of literary works, originally of poems, but in recent years its usage has broadened to be applied to collections of short stories and comic strips. ... A genre is any of the traditional divisions of art forms from a single field of activity into various kinds according to criteria particular to that form. ... Look up Humour in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... National Lampoon is a humor magazine that began in 1970 as an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon. ...

Select awards and honors

Winner:

• 2000: Bram Stoker Award – 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense

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• 2002: Locus Award – Best Editor
• 2000: International Horror Guild Award - Toybox
• 2000: World Fantasy Award – 999 New Stories of Horror and Suspense

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Select bibliography

Novels

• Horrorween (Leisure, 2006)
• Queen of Mars (Ace, 2006)
• Sebastian of Mars (Ace, 2005)
• Haydn of Mars (Ace, 2005)
• Hallows Eve (Leisure, 2004; Cemetery Dance, 2006)
• Orangefield (Cemetery Dance, 2002)
• Return (ROC, 1997)
• Journey (ROC, 1997)
• Exile (ROC, 1996)
• Summer Cool (Walker, 1993)
• Kitt Peak (Evans, 1993; Leisure, 2006)
• Skeletons (Bantam, 1992)
• House Haunted (Bantam, 1991)
• West Texas (Evans, 1990; Leisure, 2006)
• October (Bantam, 1990)
• Moonbane (Bantam, 1989)
• Cold Night (TOR, 1989)
• The Boy with Penny Eyes (TOR, 1987)
• Totentanz (TOR, 1985)
• Campbell Wood (Doubleday, 1986; Berkley, 1987)
• The Worms (Doubleday, 1985; Berkley, 1988)

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Novelettes

• The Baby (Cemetery Dance, 2006)
• The Pumpkin Boy (Endeavor, 2005)

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Short Story Collections

• Hornets and Others (Cemetery Dance, 2005)
• A Little Yellow Book of Fevered Stories (Borderlands Press, 2004)
• Toybox (Cemetery Dance, 1999; Leisure, 2003)

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Books Edited

• Flights: Extreme Tales of Fantasy (ROC, 2004)
• Redshift: Extreme Tales of Speculative Fiction (ROC, 2001)
• 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense (Avon, 1999; Perennial, 2001)
• 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories (with Martin H. Greenberh, Barnes & Noble, 1993)
• The National Lampoon Treasury of Humor (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1991)
• The Fireside Treasury of New Humor (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1989)
• The Fireside Treasury of Great Humor (Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1987)

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External links

• Al Sarrantonio's Official Website
• Robert McCammon interview
• Cemetery Dance Publications
• HarperCollins Publisher