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Amanda Downum

July 5, 1979 (age 46)

Birth place: Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA

55 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
February 2006 Short Fiction Wrack Strange Horizons, 6 February 2006
June 2006 Short Fiction Dogtown Strange Horizons, 12 June 2006
August 2006 Short Fiction Flotsam Strange Horizons, 14 August 2006
September 2006 115 Poem And in the Living Rock, Still She Sings Aeon Eight
September 2006 |4 Short Fiction The Garden, the Moon, the Wall Ideomancer, September 2006
October 2006 62 Short Fiction Snake Charmer Realms of Fantasy, October 2006
November 2006 Short Fiction Smoke & Mirrors Strange Horizons, 20 November 2006
April 2007 11 Short Fiction Ebb Not One of Us, April 2007
November 2007 35 Short Fiction Catch Weird Tales, November-December 2007
April 2008 4 Short Fiction Ghostlight Not One of Us, April 2008
October 2008 8 Short Fiction Pinion Not One of Us, October 2008
2009 52 Short Fiction Aconite & Rue On Spec, Fall 2009
November 2009 Review The Drowning City: The Necromancer Chronicles Book One Strange Horizons, 2 November 2009
April 2011 75 Review The Bone Palace Realms of Fantasy, April 2011
November 2013 Short Fiction The Salvation Game Fantasy Magazine, #7
April 2014 Short Fiction Snakebit Strange Horizons, 7 April 2014
May 2015 Review Dreams of Shreds and Tatters Black Static, May-June 2015
August 2016 |9 Interview Author Spotlight: Amanda Downum Nightmare Magazine, August 2016
August 2016 |1 Short Fiction Fossil Heart Nightmare Magazine, August 2016
October 2016 131|131.3 Review Dreams of Shreds and Tatters Cemetery Dance, #74/75, 2016
August 2019 |3 Short Fiction Spore Nightmare Magazine, August 2019
May 2021 26 Essay You Always Were a Morbid Child The Deadlands, May 2021
June 2021 60 Essay Decay Always Wins The Deadlands, June 2021
July 2021 |6 Essay The Color of the Grave Is Green The Deadlands, July 2021
August 2021 |7 Essay The Indignities of Death The Deadlands, August 2021
September 2021 |7 Essay No Ethical Decomposition Under Capitalism The Deadlands, September 2021
October 2021 |7 Essay Let Her Paint an Inch Thick The Deadlands, October 2021
November 2021 |8 Essay A Brief Anabasis The Deadlands, November 2021
December 2021 |7 Essay Crime & Putrefaction The Deadlands, December 2021
January 2022 |8 Essay Traveling with the Dead The Deadlands, January 2022
February 2022 |5 Essay 21 Grams The Deadlands, February 2022
March 2022 |6 Essay Beware the Bone Thieves The Deadlands, March 2022
April 2022 |7 Essay In a Lonely Place The Deadlands, April 2022
May 2022 |7 Essay Everyone Dies Alone The Deadlands, May 2022
June 2022 |5 Essay Stories on Skin The Deadlands, June 2022
July 2022 |6 Essay Fever Season The Deadlands, July 2022
August 2022 |4 Essay Fluid Dynamics The Deadlands, August 2022
September 2022 |5 Essay Bring the Meteor to the Skeleton The Deadlands, September 2022
October 2022 |5 Essay A Fantastic Voyage The Deadlands, October 2022
November 2022 |5 Essay Death Comes to Dinner The Deadlands, November 2022
December 2022 |6 Essay After the Flesh The Deadlands, December 2022
February 2023 |3 Essay State of the Necromancer The Deadlands, February 2023
March 2023 |3 Essay Sorting the Bones The Deadlands, March 2023
April 2023 |3 Essay Death Do Us Part The Deadlands, April 2023
May 2023 |5 Essay It Was Almost a Shame to Bury Her The Deadlands, May 2023
June 2023 |5 Essay An Inconvenient Corpse The Deadlands, June 2023
August 2023 |5 Essay Live from Readercon The Deadlands, August 2023
September 2023 |5 Essay Into Something Rich & Strange The Deadlands, September 2023
October 2023 |6 Essay One from the Vaults The Deadlands, October 2023
December 2023 |4 Essay Turn and Face the Stranger The Deadlands, December 2023
April 2024 |7 Essay Vision and Death The Deadlands, Spring 2024
July 2024 |11 Essay Mortui Vivos Docent The Deadlands, Summer 2024
October 2024 |7 Essay Oops... The Deadlands, Fall 2024
January 2025 |6 Essay The Autopsy of a Horror Film The Deadlands, Winter 2025
July 2025 |7 Essay Fun with Formaldehyde The Deadlands, Summer 2025

6 English-language books

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2010 David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy Legend Award The Drowning City Nominee
2010 David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy Morningstar Award The Drowning City Nominee
2010 James Tiptree, Jr. Award / Otherwise Award Gender-bending SF The Bone Palace Nominee
2019 World Fantasy Award Best Collection Still So Strange Nominee
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