Al Sarrantonio

Al Sarrantonio
Born (1952-05-25) May 25, 1952
New York City, U.S.
Occupation Writer, editor, publisher
Period 1968-current
Genre Horror fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mysteries, Westerns
Website
www.alsarrantonio.com

Al Sarrantonio (born May 25, 1952) is an American horror and science fiction author who has published more than 45 books and 80 short stories. He has also edited numerous anthologies and has been called "brilliant" and "a master anthologist" by Booklist.

Background and education

Sarrantonio was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. He is of Italian and Scots-Irish descent. He began his career at the age of 16 with a nonfiction appearance in one of editor Ray Palmer’s publications. 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.

Career

In 1976 Sarrantonio began an 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 1979, 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 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.

Sarrantonio is writing a horror saga revolving around Halloween, which takes place in the fictional upstate New York town of Orangefield (novels: Halloweenland, Hallows Eve and Horrorween, the last of which incorporates three shorter Orangefield pieces: the short novel Orangefield, and novelettes Hornets and The Pumpkin Boy). Other horror novels include Moonbane, October, House Haunted 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).

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.

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Novels

The Orangefield Cycle

The "Five Worlds" science fiction trilogy

The "Masters of Mars" science fiction trilogy

Babylon 5 series

Short story collections

"Summer"
"Sleepover"
"Eels"
"Letters From Camp"
"Roger in the Womb"
"The Return of Mad Santa"
"Baby Boss and the Underground Hamsters"
"Trail of the Chromium Bandits"
"The Man in the Other Car"
"Hedges"
"The Silly Stuff"
"The New Kid"
"Ahead of the Jonses"
"The Artist in the Small Room Above"
"The Dancing Foot"
"Liberty"
"Dust"
"The Pumpkin Boy"
"The Ropy Thing"
"The Only"
"The Beat"
"In the Corn"
"Two"
"The Coat"
"The Haunting of Y-12"
"Billy the Fetus"
"Stars"
"Bags"
"The Red Wind"
"The Green Face"
"White Lightning"
"The Glass Man"
"Violets"
"The Quiet Ones"
"Hornets"
"Preface"
"Father Dear"
"The Ropy Thing"
"The Electric Fat Boy"
"Sleepover"
"In the Corn"
"Stars"
"The New Kid"
"Pumpkin Head"
"Pumpkin Head"
"The Man With Legs"
"The Spook Man"
"Wish"
"Under My Bed"
"The Big House"
"Bogy"
"The Corn Dolly"
"The Electric Fat Boy"
"Snow"
"Garden of Eden"
"The Dust"
"Father Dear"
"Children of Cain"
"Red Eve"
"Pigs"
"Richard's Head"
"Boxes"

Anthologies containing stories by Sarrantonio

Books edited by Sarrantonio

Magazine appearances

Comic book adaptations

External links

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