Welcome back, Lisa Morton! Our Weird Little World is a better place when Lisa comes to play. Lisa’s story, “In the House of the Elementals” appeared in Humans Are the Problem. So, if you loved that one, get ready for a new unsettling tale entitled “Goddess”. We’re so happy to have Lisa back to join the madness in Playlist of the Damned.
Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, award-winning prose writer, and Halloween aficionado. Her work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening”, and Famous Monsters called her “one of the best writers in dark fiction today”. She began her career in Hollywood, co-writing the cult favorite Meet the Hollowheads (on which she also served as Associate Producer), but soon made a successful transition into writing short works of horror.
She is a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award®, the author of four novels and over 150 short stories, and a world-class Halloween and paranormal expert. Lisa has been interviewed on The History Channel, the Discovery Channel’s series Perfecting History, and in The Wall Street Journal. Morton also served as president of the Horror Writers Association from 2014 to 2019. She is also an active member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and Sisters in Crime. Her archives are kept as part of the permanent horror collection at the University of Pittsburgh.
Lisa Morton is a lifelong resident of California, currently residing in Los Angeles. You can find her online at LisaMorton.com
Awards:
2005 President’s Richard Laymon Award from the Horror Writers Association
2006 President’s Richard Laymon Award from the Horror Writers Association
2006 Bram Stoker Award for Best Short Fiction: Tested
2008 Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction: A Hallowe’en Anthology: Literary and Historical Writings Over the Centuries
2009 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction: The Lucid Dreaming
3rd Annual Black Quill Award winner for Best Dark Genre Anthology: Midnight Walk
2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel: The Castle of Los Angeles
2012 Halloween Book Festival Grand Prize: Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
2012 Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction: Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
(2012), Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel: Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times Malediction
Lisa Morton has also chosen How To Be Invisible (2018 Remaster) as her theme song for our author playlist.
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