Wiswell, John
Entry updated 15 April 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1981- ) US author of sf and fantasy who began to publish work of genre interest with "Alligators by Twitter" in Flash Fiction Online for April 2010. He has since published over thirty short stories in numerous venues, including The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Uncanny Magazine. His "Open House on Haunted Hill" (June 2020 Diabolical Plots) won the 2021 Locus Award and Nebula for best short story. It follows a sentient house, which for a humorous twist welcomes its prospective buyers. [For Haunted Dwellings see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below.] "That Story Isn't the Story" (November/December 2021 Uncanny Magazine) won a Locus Award as best novelette.
Wiswell has a neuromuscular disorder and explores the travails of characters with unusual bodies in such stories as "Tank!" (June 2018 Diabolical Plots) and "The Tentacle and You" (February 2019 Nature). His debut novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest In (2024), narrated by its Shapeshifting Monster protagonist, fuses Horror, fantasy, and sf. As in "Open House on Haunted Hill", its protagonist is one usually presented as monstrous, but in a sympathetic light. [JM]
John Wiswell
born New York, USA: 4 September 1981
works
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In (New York: DAW Books, 2024) [hb/J.M Fenner]
collections and stories
- D.I.Y (New York: Tor.com, 2022) [story: ebook: na/J Yang]
- The Three O'Clock Dragon (New York: Tor.com, 2023) [story: ebook: na/J Yang]
links
- John Wiswell
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: Haunted Dwellings
- Picture Gallery
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