Winter, Douglas E
Entry updated 9 December 2024. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.
(1950- ) US lawyer, author and critic who began to publish work of genre interest with the short story "June 11, 1936" in Fantasy Newsletter for January 1980. His short fiction is chiefly Horror and his novel Run (2000) a nonfantastic thriller. His nonfiction includes many reviews for Event Horizon, the above-cited Fantasy Newsletter ("Shadowings" column), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (six "Books" columns 1997-1999), Video Watchdog and Weird Tales (continuing the "Shadowings" column). He has published book-length studies of Stephen King and Clive Barker [see Checklist below], plus the interview collection Faces of Fear: Encounters with the Creators of Modern Horror (coll 1985). In 1986 he received a World Fantasy Award in the "special non-professional" category; he has also won International Horror Guild Awards for short fiction and for the anthology Revelations (anth 1997; vt Millennium 1997). [DRL]
Douglas E Winter
born St Louis, Missouri: 30 October 1950
works
- Run (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2000) [hb/Ken Schles]
collections and stories
- Splatter: A Cautionary Tale (Round Top, New York: Footsteps Press, 1987) [story: chap: pb/J K Potter]
nonfiction
- Stephen King (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1982) [nonfiction: in the publisher's Starmont Reader's Guide series: hb/Stephen E Fabian]
- Shadowings: The Reader's Guide to Horror Fiction, 1981-1982 (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1983) [nonfiction: in the publisher's Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism series: hb/]
- Stephen King: The Art of Darkness (New York: New American Library, 1984) [nonfiction: hb/nonpictorial]
- Stephen King: The Art of Darkness, Revised and Expanded (New York: New American Library/Plume, 1986) [nonfiction: exp rev of the above: pb/]
- Stephen King: The Art of Darkness, Expanded and Updated (New York: New American Library/Signet, 1986) [nonfiction: exp rev of the above: pb/]
- The Art of Darkness: The Life and Fiction of the Master of the Macabre: Stephen King (London: New English Library, 1989) [nonfiction: vt of the above: pb/]
- Stephen King: The Art of Darkness, Expanded and Updated (New York: New American Library/Signet, 1986) [nonfiction: exp rev of the above: pb/]
- Stephen King: The Art of Darkness, Revised and Expanded (New York: New American Library/Plume, 1986) [nonfiction: exp rev of the above: pb/]
- Faces of Fear: Encounters with the Creators of Modern Horror (New York: Berkley Books, 1985) [nonfiction: coll: pb/]
- Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic (London: HarperCollins, 2001) [nonfiction: hb/photographic]
works as editor
- Black Wine (Niles, Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1986) [anth: hb/J K Potter]
- Night Visions 5 (Niles, Illinois: Dark Harvest, 1988) [anth: Night Visions: hb/Ron Lindahn, Val Lakey Lindahn]
- Dark Visions (London: Gollancz, 1989) [anth: vt of the above: Night Visions: hb/]
- Prime Evil (New York: New American Library/NAL Books, 1988) [anth: hb/Thomas Canty]
- Revelations (New York: HarperPrism, 1997) [anth: hb/Thomas Canty]
- Millennium (London: HarperCollins/Voyager, 1997) [anth: vt of the above: hb/Thomas Canty]
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