Elizabeth Massie


Elizabeth Spilman Massie is an American author. She lives outside Waynesboro, Virginia with illustrator Cortney Skinner.

Career

Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels and short fiction. She won the awards for Sineater and Stephen. She has written historical fiction for young adults as well as mainstream fiction, media tie-ins, and non-fiction for American History textbooks and educational readers and testing programs.
Her first short horror story, "Whittler," was published in David B. Silva's The Horror Show magazine in 1984. Since then, her horror fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including, Best New Fantasy and Horror, Best New Horror, Splatterpunks, Inhuman Magazine, Grue, Hottest Blood, A Whisper of Blood, and Kolchak the Night Stalker: Casebook. Her book "Abed" is being converted into a short film by Jenny Lasko, Philip Nutman, and Ryan Lieske. The film has an expected release for summer 2012.
Massie is the creator of "Skeeryvilletown," a horror cartoon featuring creatures and monsters, which include 3-Eyed Devil Cat, Boo Boy, Wolfie, Fire Breathing Dog O' Death, Bonehead, the Witch Sisters, Rattie, and Battie.

Collected Stories

Contents include:
Naked, on the Edge
Shadow of the Valley
Learning to Give
Fisherman Joe
What Happened When Mosby Paulson Had Her Painting Reproduced on the
Cover the Phone Book
Forever, Amen
No Solicitors, Curious a Quarter
Miss Dowdy
Crow, Cat, Cow, Child
Someone Came and Took Them Away
I Am Not My Smell
As You Have Made Us

Short fiction

Elizabeth Massie's short works include:
Novels relating to the fictional universe established by Buffy and Angel:
Shenandoah Moon with Duane Hahn and Barbara Spilman Lawson
Mystery of the Meandering Music Box

Other works

Include historical fiction for young adults/teens and middle grade readers.