James Chambers (born December 16, 1970) is an American author, comic book writer, and a member of the Horror Writers Association.

Biography Chambers is a member of and volunteer for the Horror Writers Association and recipient of the 2012 HWA President's Richard Laymon Award and the 2016 HWA Silver Hammer Award. In 2018, he chaired StokerCon, the Horror Writers Association annual conference, and taught writing workshops at the HWA Horror University.

He was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel in 2016 for Kolchak: the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe and has been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award three times. In 1995 and 1996, he collaborated with Leonard Nimoy as editor on the comic book series Leonard Nimoy's Primortals and Origins and with Majel Barrett Roddenberry while editing Gene Roddenberry's Lost Universe. He also edited Isaac Asimov's I*BOTS, a posthumous comic book series based on concepts by Isaac Asimov. He lives in New York, is a member of the Horror Writers Association New York Chapter, and coordinates the Night Terror series of horror readings in New York City.

Published works Anthology

A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State eds. James Chambers, April Grey, and Robert Masterson, New York: Hippocampus Press, 2018 (). This fund-raising anthology benefitted Girls Write Now.

Collections On the Night Border, Bowie, MD: Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2019. ( PB; HC) "The Engines of Sacrifice" – The Engines of Sacrifice. Colusa, CA: Dark Regions Press, 2011. (); a collection of four Lovecraft-inspired novellas published by Dark Regions Press which Publishers Weekly described as "…chillingly evocative…" in a starred review.Publishers Weekly, "The Engines of Sacrifice", n.d. Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. () The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales, Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. ()

Comics and graphic novels "The Origin of the Primortals, Part I" – Leonard Nimoy's Primortals: ORIGINS Vol. 1, No. 1 (1995). Boca Raton, FL: Tekno Comix/Big Entertainment. "The Origin of the Primortals, Part II" – Leonard Nimoy's Primortals: ORIGINS Vol. 1, No. 2 (1995). Boca Raton, FL: TeknoComix/Big Entertainment. "Cross Country: Part I" – Leonard Nimoy's Primortals Vol. 1, No. 13 (1995). Boca Raton, FL: TeknoComix/Big Entertainment. "Cross Country: Part II" – Leonard Nimoy's Primortals Vol. 1, No. 14 (1995). Boca Raton, FL: TeknoComix/Big Entertainment. "Cross Country: Part III" – Leonard Nimoy's Primortals Vol. 1, No. 15 (1995). Boca Raton, FL: TeknoComix/Big Entertainment. "Cross Country: World in Flames" – Leonard Nimoy's Primortals Vol. 2, No. 0 (1996). Boca Raton, FL: TeknoComix/Big Entertainment. "Homecoming" – Leonard Nimoy's Primortals Vol. 2, No. 7 (1996). Boca Raton, FL: TeknoComix/Big Entertainment. "Lost Girl" – Shadow House Vol. 1, No. 1 (August 1997). New York: Shadow House Press. "Black Coffin Death" – Shadow House Vol. 1, No. 2 (October 1997). New York: Shadow House Press. "Swamp Thunder" – Shadow House Vol. 1, No. 3 (December 1997). New York: Shadow House Press. "The Mourning After" – Shadow House Vol. 1, No. 4 (February 1998). New York: Shadow House Press. "One Man's Nightmare, Another Man's Soul" – Shadow House Vol. 1, No. 5 (April 1997). New York: Shadow House Press. "The Hand of Gorlak" – The Midnight Hour Vol. 1, No. 1 (August 2004). Baltimore, MD: Die Monster Die Books. "The Demon Head of Harbuu Kisasi" – Negative Burn Vol. 2, No. 9 (January 2007). Image Comics/Desperado Publishing. Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe, Moonstone Books, 2016. - This Bram Stoker Award-winning graphic novel featured Carl Kolchak of the television series in all-new stories inspired by the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Novellas The Dead Bear Witness – Pennsville, NJ: eSpec Books, 2019, paperback (); MD: Cemetery Dance, 2019, e-book; Dark Quest Books, Howell, NJ, 2012. (); published in an earlier version as a chapbook, Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2002 / Reprinted, The Dead Walk. Vincent Sneed, ed. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2004. () Tears of Blood – Pennsville, NJ: eSpec Books, 2020, (); Dark Quest Books, Howell, NJ, 2012. (); published in an earlier version as "Crying Tears of Blood, Sweet Like Honey" in Bare Bone # 9. Kevin L. Donihe, ed. Raw Dog Screaming Press, November 2006. "The Dead, In Their Masses" – The Dead Walk Again. Vince Sneed, ed. Farmingdale, NY: Padwolf Publishing, 2007. () "Investigation 37" – The Engines of Sacrifice. Colusa, CA: Dark Regions Press, 2011. () "The Hidden Room" – The Engines of Sacrifice. Colusa, CA: Dark Regions Press, 2011. () "The Ugly Birds" – The Engines of Sacrifice. Colusa, CA: Dark Regions Press, 2011. () Three Chords of Chaos – Pennsville, NJ: eSpec Books, 2019, (); Dark Quest Books, Howell, NJ, 2013. ()Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror reviews. (2019). Publishers Weekly, 266(20) Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/sci-fi-fantasy-horror-reviews/docview/2226074556/se-2

Short fiction "The Ghost of the Bayou Pitenn" – Chiral Mad 4. Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder, eds. Written Backwards, Calif., 2018. () "A Manifest Destiny, or the Testament of a Continental Regular" – War Fear. Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2002. Paperback edition, 2008. (/978-1892669209) "A Wandering Blackness" – Lin Carter's Dr. Anton Zarnak, Occult Detective. Robert Price, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2002. () – received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Sixteenth Annual Collection "Keeper of Beasts" – Lin Carter's Dr. Anton Zarnak, Occult Detective. Robert Price, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2002. () Mooncat Jack – Chapbook, Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2002. / Reprinted, Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. () "The Last Stand of Black Danny O'Barry" – Weird Trails. Michael Szymanski, ed. Lockport, NY: Triad Entertainment, 2002. () / Reprinted, Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. () "The Tale of the Spanish Prisoner" – WarFear. Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2002. Paperback edition, 2008. / Reprinted, Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. () "Trick" – Mooncat Jack, Chapbook, Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2002. / Reprinted, No Longer Dreams. Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lee Hillmann, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeff Lyman, eds. Baltimore, MD: Lite Circle Books, 2005 / Reprinted, Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. () "Against the Stars Themselves" – The Black Book, January 2003. "The Kind Old Fellow" – Sick: An Anthology of Illness. John Edward Lawson, ed. Baltimore, MD: Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2003. () "Refugees" – Allen K's Inhuman. Allen Koszowski, ed. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2004. (w/ Vince Sneed). / Reprinted, Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. () "Resurrection House" – The Dead Walk. Vincent Sneed, ed. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2004. ()/ Reprinted, Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. () "Blood & Water, Fang & Sting" – The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. () – created in collaboration with artist Jason Whitley "Children of the Oneiroi" – The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. () "Danse" (as Jan Rukh) – Dark Furies. Vincent Sneed, ed. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. () "Gray Gulls Gyre" – Dark Furies. Vincent Sneed, ed. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. () / Reprinted, Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. () "The Hand of Fate" – Chapbook, Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005 / Reprinted, The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. () / Reprinted, R. Allen Leider's The Hellfire Lounge 2, Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2011. () "Hot-Baked Hell" – The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. ()D'Ammassa, D. (2006). The midnight hour: Saint lawn hill and other tales: SF, fantasy & horror's monthly trade journal. Chronicle, 28(1), 35. Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/midnight-hour-saint-lawn-hill-other-tales/docview/205513203/se-2 "Law of the Kuzzi" – No Longer Dreams. Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lee Hillmann, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeff Lyman, eds. Baltimore, MD: Lite Circle Books, 2005. / Reprinted on SpaceWesterns.com, September 2007. / Reprinted in Cowboys in Space. Mike McPhail, ed., Louisville, CO: Copper Dog Publishing, 2016 (978-1943690091) "Picture Man" – Bare Bone # 7. Kevin L. Donihe, ed. Raw Dog Screaming Press, May 2005. "Saint Lawn Hill" – The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. () "The Blackburn Cairns" – The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. () "The Blood of Demons" – The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. () "Unhallowed Ground, Unholy Flesh" – Lost Worlds of Space and Time (Volume 1), Steven Lines, Ed., Calne, Wiltshire, UK: Rainfall Books, 2005. "Upon A Slender Stem" – Hear Them Roar. CJ Henderson and Patrick Thomas, eds. Spyre, 2006 (Reissued: Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2008); originally published in The Midnight Hour: Saint Lawn Hill and Other Tales. Baltimore, MD: Die, Monster, Die! Books, 2005. () "Young Demons" – At The Midnight Hour (.com), 2005. "Mosqueto" – Crypt-Critters (Volume 1). Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Farmingdale, NY: Padwolf Publishing, 2006. () "The Feeding Things" – Cthulhu Sex # 23. Cthulhu Sex, February 2006. / Reprinted, Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. () "The Roaches in the Walls" – Hardboiled Cthulhu. James Ambeuhl, ed. Lake Orion, MI: Elder Signs Press, 2006. () "An Account of Two Deaths" – Crypt-Critters (Volume 2). Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Farmingdale, NY: Padwolf Publishing, 2007. () "Killer Eye" – Breach the Hull. (Defending the Future, Volume 1) Mike McPhail, ed. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2007. () "Sally Smiles" – Bad-Ass Faeries. Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lee Hillmann, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeff Lyman, eds. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2007 / Reissued, Cincinnati, OH: Mundania Press, 2009. () "Swamp Hoppers" – Crypto-Critters (Volume 2). Bruce Gehweiller, ed. Farmingdale, NY: Padwolf Publishing, 2007. () / Reprinted, Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009 (Deluxe Edition hardcover only). () "The Way of the Bone" – Bad-Ass Faeries 2: Just Plain Bad. Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lee Hillmann, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeff Lyman, eds. Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2008 / Reissued, Cincinnati, OH: Mundania Press, 2009. () "Corporeal Gains" – R. Allen Leider's Hellfire Lounge, Marietta, GA: Marietta Publishing, 2009. () "Derelict" – Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009 (Deluxe Edition hardcover only). () "Five Points" – Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. () "The Devil, You Know" – Domino Lady: Sex as a Weapon. Lori Gentile, ed. Moonstone Books, 2009. () "Vicious Swimmers" – Resurrection House, Colusa, Calif.: Dark Regions Press, 2009. () "War Movies" – So It Begins. (Defending the Future, Volume 2) Mike McPhail, ed. Howell, NJ: Dark Quest Books, 2009. () "Box Lunch" – New Blood. Diane Raetz and Patrick Thomas, eds. New York: Padwolf Publishing, 2010. () "Faerie Ring Blues" – Bad-Ass Faeries 3: In All Their Glory. Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Lee Hillmann, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Jeff Lyman, eds. Cincinnati, OH: Mundania Press, 2010. ()