William Browning Spencer (born 1946) is an American novelist and short story writer living in Austin, Texas. His science fiction and horror stories are often darkly and surrealistically humorous.
Awards and honors
His novel Résumé With Monsters won the International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Novel in 1995. His first novel, Maybe I'll Call Anna, was a National Endowment of the Arts New American Writing Award winner. His novels and short stories have been finalists for the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. His short stories have been anthologized numerous times, including twice in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and twice in The Year's Best Science Fiction. In 1995, he was Toastmaster of ArmadilloCon 21 in Austin, TX.
Bibliography Novels Maybe I'll Call Anna, Permanent Press (1990) Résumé With Monsters, Permanent Press (1995). Reprint: Dover Publications (2014) Zod Wallop. St. Martin's Press (1995). Reprint: White Wolf Publishing (1996) Irrational Fears, White Wolf Publishing (1998)
Short fiction
Collections The Return of Count Electric & Other Stories, Permanent Press (1993) The Ocean and All Its Devices, Subterranean Press (2006) The Unorthodox Dr. Draper And Other Stories, Subterranean Press (2017)
List of short stories The Return of Count Electric (1993)TitleNotesThe Wedding Photographer in CrisisHaunted by the Horror KingThe Entomologists at ObalaThe Return of Count ElectricGraven ImagesPep TalkIn 2005, this story was adapted as a short film by writer Eric B. Anderson and director Scott Smith (Project Greenlight) and premiered at the Santa Fe Film Festival in December 2006.Looking Out for EleanorSnowA Child's Christmas in FloridaAdapted as a short film entitled "A Child's Christmas in Texas" Screenwriters: Carolyn Banks and Jessica Gardner, Producer: Carolyn Banks, Director: Jessica Gardner. Can be viewed on YouTube.Best ManDaughter Doom
The Ocean and All Its Devices (2006)Title/First publishedNotesBram Stoker Award finalist in Best Short Story categoryLocus Magazine Award finalist in Best Short Story categoryWorld Fantasy Award finalist in Best Short Story category
The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories (2017)Title/First publishedNotesShirley Jackson Award finalist in Novelette categoryBram Stoker Award finalist in Long Fiction category, Shirley Jackson Award finalist in Novelette categoryIncluded in "2009 Rhysling Anthology: The Best SF, Fantasy & Horror Poetry of 2009"
References
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 Publishers Weekly review of Maybe I'll Call Anna Publishers Weekly review of The Return of Count Electric & Other Stories Washington Post review of Irrational Fears Publishers Weekly review of Irrational Fears Kirkus review of Zod Wallop New York Times Review of Zod Wallop SF Site review of The Ocean and All Its Devices Publishers Weekly review of The Ocean and All Its Devices Publishers Weekly review of The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories Kirkus review of The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories Locus Magazine review of The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories William Browning Spencer Internet Speculative Fiction Database