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Lisa Morton

December 11, 1958 (age 67)

Birth place: Pasadena, California, USA

85 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
January 1995 48 Short Fiction Sensitive After Hours, Winter 1995
September 1998 77 Essay Movie & Video Reviews (Dark Regions & Horror Magazine #10, Fall 1998) Dark Regions & Horror Magazine, Fall 1998
1999 67 Essay Reviews: TV, Movie, & Video Dark Regions/Horror Magazine, Summer 1999
January 1999 91 Essay Reviews: Film, Video, & T.V. (Dark Regions & Horror Magazine, Winter 1999) Dark Regions & Horror Magazine, Winter 1999
April 1999 61 Essay The State of the Genre: 1998 in Review (Dark Regions & Horror Magazine, Spring 1999) Dark Regions & Horror Magazine, Spring 1999
June 2006 25 Short Fiction Tested Cemetery Dance, #55
July 2008 Essay Smart Broads and Tough Guys: The Strange World of Vintage Paperbacks Clarkesworld Magazine, July 2008
May 2009 35 Short Fiction The Devil Came to Mamie's on Hallowe'en Cemetery Dance, #60, 2009
September 2010 131 Review Midnight Walk Cemetery Dance, #64, 2010
September 2010 93 Review The Lucid Dreaming Cemetery Dance, #64, 2010
2011 4 Short Fiction San Diablo Allen K's Inhuman Magazine, #5 Fall 2011
April 2011 |162 Essay Mike's and Lisa's Throw-Down Review: Hobo with a Shotgun ChiZine, April-June 2011
April 2011 |66 Short Fiction Pound Rots in Fragrant Harbour ChiZine, April-June 2011
December 2011 105 Review The Castle of Los Angeles Cemetery Dance, #65, 2011
September 2012 23 Interview An Interview with Al Sarrantonio Cemetery Dance, #67, 2012
September 2012 45 Interview An Interview with Matthew Costello Cemetery Dance, #67, 2012
October 2012 23 Interview An Interview with Lisa Morton Dark Discoveries #21, Fall 2012
October 2012 28 Short Fiction Pontianak Dark Discoveries #21, Fall 2012
March 2013 |8 Interview Interview: Jonathan Maberry Nightmare Magazine, March 2013
April 2013 |8 Interview Interview: Sarah Langan Nightmare Magazine, April 2013
May 2013 |8 Interview Interview: Steve Niles Nightmare Magazine, May 2013
June 2013 |8 Interview Interview: Robert McCammon Nightmare Magazine, June 2013
July 2013 |6 Essay The Horror of Small Town America Nightmare Magazine, July 2013
September 2013 67 Interview An Interview with Rocky Wood Cemetery Dance, #70, 2013
September 2013 |8 Interview Interview: Joe McKinney Nightmare Magazine, September 2013
October 2013 |8 Interview Interview: Margo Lanagan (Nightmare Magazine, October 2013) Nightmare Magazine, October 2013
December 2013 |8 Interview Interview: Joe R. Lansdale Nightmare Magazine, December 2013
January 2014 |9 Interview Interview: Christopher Golden Nightmare Magazine, January 2014
March 2014 |8 Interview Interview: Jeff Strand Nightmare Magazine, March 2014
April 2014 |8 Interview Interview: Darren Shan Nightmare Magazine, April 2014
May 2014 |9 Interview Interview: Nancy Holder Nightmare Magazine, May 2014
June 2014 |9 Interview Interview: Mark Morris Nightmare Magazine, June 2014
July 2014 |10 Interview Interview: Del Howison of Dark Delicacies Bookstore Nightmare Magazine, July 2014
August 2014 |1 Interview Interview: Daniel Knauf Nightmare Magazine, August 2014
October 2014 2 Essay Editorial, October 2014 (Nightmare Magazine, October 2014) Nightmare Magazine, October 2014
October 2014 163 Essay Interview: Jessica Sharzer Nightmare Magazine, October 2014
October 2014 158 Interview Interview: Joyce Carol Oates Nightmare Magazine, October 2014
October 2014 179 Interview Women Destroy Horror! Roundtable Interview Nightmare Magazine, October 2014
November 2014 |10 Interview Interview: Leslie Klinger Nightmare Magazine, November 2014
January 2015 |6 Essay You've Come a Long Way, Baby –The Female Protagonist in Horror Nightmare Magazine, January 2015
February 2015 |9 Interview Interview: Chuck Palahniuk Nightmare Magazine, February 2015
April 2015 |9 Interview Interview: Richard Chizmar Nightmare Magazine, April 2015
May 2015 |9 Interview Interview: William F. Nolan Nightmare Magazine, May 2015
June 2015 |9 Interview Interview: Lucy A. Snyder Nightmare Magazine, June 2015
September 2015 |8 Essay Interview: Dapper Cadaver Nightmare Magazine, September 2015
December 2015 |8 Interview Interview: Kim Liggett Nightmare Magazine, December 2015
March 2016 |8 Essay Interview: Josh Boone Nightmare Magazine, March 2016
April 2016 |8 Interview Interview: David J. Schow Nightmare Magazine, April 2016
May 2016 |8 Interview Interview: Angela Slatter Nightmare Magazine, May 2016
August 2016 |8 Interview Interview: C. A. Suleiman Nightmare Magazine, August 2016
October 2016 68 Short Fiction The Rich Are Different Cemetery Dance, #74/75, 2016
November 2016 |7 Interview Interview: Jack Ketchum Nightmare Magazine, November 2016
January 2017 |7 Interview Interview: Seanan McGuire Nightmare Magazine, January 2017
January 2017 |15 Essay The Skeptic's Guide to Ghost Hunting Gamut, January 2017
February 2017 |7 Interview Interview: J. Lincoln Fenn Nightmare Magazine, February 2017
March 2017 |7 Interview Interview: Norman Prentiss Nightmare Magazine, March 2017
April 2017 |7 Interview Interview: Stephen Graham Jones Nightmare Magazine, April 2017
October 2017 21 Review Haunted Nights Locus, #681 October 2017
October 2017 |7 Interview Interview: Josh Malerman Nightmare Magazine, October 2017
December 2017 |5 Short Fiction Poppi's Monster Nightmare Magazine, December 2017
January 2018 |7 Interview Interview: S. P. Miskowski Nightmare Magazine, January 2018
April 2018 |8 Interview Interview: Chris Kullstroem Nightmare Magazine, April 2018
May 2018 |6 Essay The H-Word: Dementia and the Writer Nightmare Magazine, May 2018
2019 36 Short Fiction A Housekeeper's Revenge Weird Tales, No. 363
January 2019 |7 Interview Interview: Emil Ferris Nightmare Magazine, January 2019
February 2019 |8 Interview Roundtable Interview with Women in Horror Nightmare Magazine, February 2019
March 2019 15|15.5 Review Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense The New York Times Book Review, March 31, 2019
May 2019 87 Review Ghosts: A Haunted History The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies, June 2019
May 2019 |9 Interview Interview: Gabino Iglesias Nightmare Magazine, May 2019
September 2019 |6 Essay You Really Don't Want to Do This Nightmare Magazine, September 2019
November 2019 |7 Interview Interview: Lois H. Gresh Nightmare Magazine, November 2019
March 2020 33 Interview Lisa Morton Phantasmagoria Special Edition Series, March 2020
November 2020 |7 Interview Interview: Alma Katsu Nightmare Magazine, November 2020
May 2021 |8 Interview Interview: Benjamin Rubin and Adam Hart Nightmare Magazine, May 2021
September 2021 |11 Review Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: Volume 2: 1840-1925 Lightspeed, September 2021
October 2021 |6 Essay When the Final Girl Grows Up Nightmare Magazine, October 2021
November 2021 |7 Interview Interview: Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson Nightmare Magazine, November 2021
May 2022 |7 Interview Interview: Taylor Grant Nightmare Magazine, May 2022
February 2023 |7 Interview Interview: Eric J. Guignard Nightmare Magazine, February 2023
June 2023 257 Short Fiction A Girl's Life Phantasmagoria, June 2023
June 2023 251 Interview Lisa Morton: Californian Blizzards, Hallowe'en and Horror! Phantasmagoria, June 2023
April 2024 |6 Essay Think You Know Horror? Dead Right Might Tell You Otherwise Gamut Magazine, April 2024
December 2024 |3 Essay Christmas Eve in an Old House: The History of Christmas Ghost Stories Gamut Magazine, December 2024
January 2025 |7 Interview Interview: Toby Poser Nightmare Magazine, January 2025
November 2025 |7 Essay When Scientists Go Mad—Ghost-Hunting and Horror Nightmare Magazine, November 2025

27 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
2008 Anthology A Hallowe'en Anthology: Literary and Historical Writings Over the Centuries Lisa Morton
2009 Anthology Midnight Walk Lisa Morton
2009 Chapbook The Lucid Dreaming Lisa Morton
2010 Novel The Castle of Los Angeles Lisa Morton
2010 Chapbook The Samhanach Lisa Morton
2011 Collection Monsters of L.A. Lisa Morton
2012 Chapbook Hell Manor Lisa Morton
2012 Chapbook The Legend of Halloween Jack Lisa Morton
2012 Nonfiction Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween Lisa Morton
2013 Novel Malediction Lisa Morton
2013 Anthology Smog / Baggage of Eternal Night Lisa Morton & Eric J. Guignard
2013 Chapbook Summer's End Lisa Morton
2014 Anthology Haunted Holidays: 3 Short Tales of Terror Lisa Morton & Laura Benedict & Carolyn Haines
2014 Novel Netherworld Lisa Morton
2014 Novel Washington Deceased Lisa Morton
2015 Nonfiction Ghosts: A Haunted History Lisa Morton
2017 Anthology Haunted Nights Lisa Morton & Ellen Datlow
2017 Collection The Samhanach and Other Halloween Treats Lisa Morton
2019 Anthology Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense Leslie S. Klinger & Lisa Morton
2019 Anthology Strange Tales of the Macabre: Ghosts Lisa Morton
2020 Anthology Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923 Leslie S. Klinger & Lisa Morton
2021 Collection Night Terrors & Other Tales Lisa Morton
2021 Anthology Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: Volume 2: 1840-1925 Lisa Morton & Leslie S. Klinger
2022 Anthology Halloween Beyond: Piercing the Veil Lisa Morton & Lucy A. Snyder & Kate Maruyama
2022 Anthology Haunted Tales: Classic Stories of Ghosts and the Supernatural Lisa Morton & Leslie S. Klinger
2024 Chapbook Placerita Lisa Morton & John Palisano
2024 Collection Spine Tinglers Lisa Morton

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2006 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Short Fiction Tested Winner
2008 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction A Hallowe'en Anthology: Literary and Historical Writings Over the Centuries Winner
2009 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in an Anthology Midnight Walk Nominee
2009 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction The Lucid Dreaming Winner
2010 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a First Novel The Castle of Los Angeles Winner
2010 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction The Samhanach Nominee
2011 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Monsters of L.A. Nominee
2012 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween Winner
2013 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel Malediction Nominee

Author is based in Los Angeles, California, USA
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