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Gwendolyn Kiste

Birth place: Massillon, Ohio, USA

57 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
December 2014 66 Short Fiction Pink Moon The Sirens Call, December 2014
January 2015 Short Fiction The Man in the Ambry Typehouse Literary Magazine, #4, January 2015
February 2015 |3 Short Fiction Once Lost, Gone Forever Electric Spec, February 28, 2015
February 2015 80 Short Fiction One Bad House The Sirens Call, February 2015
March 2015 20 Short Fiction The Clawfoot Requiem LampLight, March 2015
June 2015 19 Short Fiction Calling Hours Morpheus Tales, June 2015
June 2015 133 Short Fiction For Sale: Death Ray Mad Scientist Journal, Summer 2015
June 2015 137 Short Fiction Man Seeking Minion Mad Scientist Journal, Summer 2015
June 2015 137 Short Fiction Man Seeking Woman Mad Scientist Journal, Summer 2015
June 2015 138 Short Fiction Missed Connection: Man with a Death Ray Mad Scientist Journal, Summer 2015
June 2015 135 Short Fiction Seeking Home Improvement Contractor Mad Scientist Journal, Summer 2015
August 2015 78 Short Fiction Late-Night Drive The Sirens Call, August 2015
September 2015 |11 Interview Author Spotlight: Gwendolyn Kiste Nightmare Magazine, September 2015
September 2015 |3 Short Fiction Ships and Stars and Childhood Things Flash Fiction Online, September 2015
September 2015 |6 Short Fiction Something Borrowed, Something Blue Three-Lobed Burning Eye, September 2015
September 2015 |2 Short Fiction Ten Things to Know About the Ten Questions Nightmare Magazine, September 2015
October 2015 19 Short Fiction The Grey Man Latchkey Tales, October 2015
January 2016 32 Short Fiction A Certain Kind of Spark Mantid Magazine, Winter 2016
March 2016 |7 Short Fiction All the Red Apples Have Withered to Gray Shimmer, March 2016
March 2016 36 Short Fiction Find Me, Mommy LampLight, March 2016
March 2016 |8 Interview Shimmer Interviews: Gwendolyn Kiste Shimmer, March 2016
May 2016 |2 Short Fiction A Blue Blood Lady Liquid Imagination, May 2016
May 2016 62 Short Fiction The Tower Princesses Interzone, May-June 2016
November 2016 24 Short Fiction Holiday Playlist for the End of the World Daily Science Fiction, November 2016
January 2017 |12 Short Fiction The Twelve Rules of Etiquette at Miss Firebird's School for Girls Mithila Review, January 2017
March 2017 23 Essay Dust of Farewell-Summer: The Small-Town America of Ray Bradbury Unnerving Magazine, #2, March 2017
May 2017 |7 Short Fiction Songs to Help You Cope When Your Mom Won't Stop Haunting You and Your Friends Black Static, May-June 2017
June 2017 46 Essay A Place Both Wonderful and Strange: The Suburban Gothic Worlds of David Lynch and Shirley Jackson Unnerving Magazine, #3, June 2017
July 2017 |10.02 Review And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe Black Static, July-August 2017
July 2017 |10.01 Interview Weird Wanderings: Gwendolyn Kiste Black Static, July-August 2017
October 2017 |15 Essay In Disguise: Cool Characters from Horror Fiction That Would Make a Killer Halloween Costume Unnerving Magazine, #4 Extended Halloween Edition
January 2018 32 Essay No Happily Ever After Here: Death and Dismay in Fairy Tales Unnerving Magazine, #5
January 2018 |6 Essay W Is for Witch Nightmare Magazine, January 2018
February 2018 Short Fiction To Blaze a Sweet Heretic's Heart Mantid: Volume 3
April 2018 Short Fiction In the Belly of the Wolf Kaleidotrope, Spring 2018
April 2018 59 Essay The One Who Survives: The Final Girls of Film and Fiction Unnerving Magazine, #6
August 2018 Essay A Goth for All Seasons: Exploring the Subgenres of Gothic Horror Unnerving Magazine, #7
November 2018 79 Essay Night Shift Revisited: A Personal Retrospective Unnerving Magazine, #8
January 2019 Review The Rust Maidens Black Static, January-February 2019
March 2019 Essay Magic, Madness, and Women Who Creep: The Power of Individuality in the Work of Charlette Perkins Gilman Vastarien, Spring 2019
March 2019 21 Essay Violence and Violins: 60 Years of Psycho Unnerving Magazine, #9
July 2019 18 Essay Beyond the Forest and Bloodied Paths: A Foray into the World of Folk Horror Unnerving Magazine, Issue #10
November 2019 |9 Interview Author Spotlight: Gwendolyn Kiste Nightmare Magazine, November 2019
November 2019 |2 Short Fiction The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra's Diary) Nightmare Magazine, November 2019
December 2019 Short Fiction The Woman Out of the Attic Pseudopod, #679
May 2020 |6 Essay The Horror of Solitude Nightmare Magazine, May 2020
August 2020 |4 Short Fiction An Elegy for Childhood Monsters The Dark, August 2020
December 2022 |8 Review Reluctant Immortals Nightmare Magazine, December 2022
January 2023 |5 Review Reluctant Immortals Strange Horizons, 16 January 2023
April 2023 229 Essay Everyday Horror: The Existential Terror of Daily Living The Sirens Call, Spring 2023
April 2023 231 Short Fiction Reluctant Immortals (excerpt) The Sirens Call, Spring 2023
May 2023 Short Fiction All the Ways to Hollow Out a Girl Pseudopod, #864
May 2023 9 Short Fiction Melting Point Cosmic Horror Monthly, May 2023
July 2023 |2.12 Review All the Ways to Hollow Out a Girl Strange Horizons, 24 July 2023
September 2023 Short Fiction How to Win a Dance Contest During an Apocalypse (In Nine Easy Steps!) Pseudopod, #881
March 2024 |8 Review The Haunting of Velkwood Nightmare Magazine, March 2024
2025 85 Short Fiction Riddle Weird Tales, No. 370

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2016 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Short Fiction Reasons I Hate My Big Sister Nominee
2017 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe Nominee
2018 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a First Novel The Rust Maidens Winner
2019 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Short Fiction The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt from Lucy Westenra's Diary) Winner
2020 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Long Fiction The Invention of Ghosts Nominee
2020 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award Best Novella The Invention of Ghosts Nominee
2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award Best Short Fiction Sister Glitter Blood Winner
2022 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel Reluctant Immortals Nominee
2022 Lambda Literary Awards Bisexual Fiction Reluctant Immortals Winner
2023 Dragon Award Best Horror Novel Reluctant Immortals Nominee
2024 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Novel The Haunting of Velkwood Nominee
2025 Shirley Jackson Award Best Novel The Haunting of Velkwood Nominee

A speculative fiction writer living in Pennsylvania. "The Rust Maidens" was her debut novel.
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