William Browning Spencer

William Browning Spencer (born 1946) is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer living in Austin, Texas. His science fiction and horror stories are often darkly and surreally humorous. His novel "Resume With Monsters" conflates soul-destroying H. P. Lovecraftian horrors with soul-destroying lousy jobs. __NOTOC__His story "The Death of the Novel" was a 1995 Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Short Story.

In 2005, his short story " [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918936/ Pep Talk] " was turned into a short film by writer [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1887188/ Eric B. Anderson] and director [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2033475/ Scott Smith] (Project Greenlight) and premiered at the [http://www.santafefilmfestival.com/ Santa Fe Film Festival] in December of 2006.

Bibliography

Books

*"Endless Laundry" (unpublished)
*" [http://www.amazon.com/dp/157962054X/ Maybe I'll Call Anna] "(1990, novel)
*" [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1565048717/ The Return of Count Electric] "(1993, short story collection)
*" [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1579620264/ Resume With Monsters] " (1995, novel)
*" [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1565048709/ Zod Wallop] " (1995, novel)
*" [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1565049152/ Irrational Fears] " (1998, novel)
*" [http://www.amazon.com/dp/1596060476/ The Ocean and All Its Devices] " (2006, short story collection)

Short stories

*"Best Man" (1993)
*"A Child's Christmas in Florida" (1993)
*"Daughter Doom" (1993)
*"The Entomologists at Obala" (1993)
*"Graven Images" (1993)
*"Haunted by the Horror King" (1993)
*"Irrational Fears" (1993)
*"Looking Out for Eleanor" (1993)
*"Pep Talk" (1993)
*"The Return of Count Electric" (1993)
*"Snow" (1993)
*"The Wedding Photographer in Crisis" (1993)
*"The Ocean and All Its Devices" (1994)
*"The Death of the Novel" (1995), Bram Stoker Best Short Story Award 1996
*"Downloading Midnight" (1995)
*"The Oddskeeper's Daughter" (1995)
*"The Halfway House At the Heart of Darkness" (1998)

Anthologies containing stories by William Browning Spencer

* "Ghosttide" (1993)
* "Borderlands 4" (1994)
* "Christmas Magic" (1994)
* "The Year's Best Science Fiction Eleventh Annual Collection" (1994)
* "Wheel of Fortune" (1995)
* "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection" (1995)
* "100 Tiny Tales of Terror" (1996)
* "Year's Best SF" (1996)
* "Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of H P Lovecraft in Popular Culture" (1998)
* "The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection" (1999)

External links

* [http://www.fact.org/reading/reports/jun96.shtml Book group recount of an evening with William Browning Spencer]
* [http://www.crescentblues.com/2_3issue/wbspencer.shtml Interview from 1999 at "Crescent Blues"]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/william-browning-spencer/ Fantastic Fiction summary for William Browning Spencer]
* [http://www.sflit.com/novaexpress/15/wbsi-1.html Nova Express Interview]
* [http://www.sfsite.com/08b/irr39.htm Review of "Irrational Fears"]
* [http://www.emcit.com/emcit131.php?a=22 Review of "The Ocean and All Its Devices"]
* [http://www.rambles.net/spencer_ocean06.html Another Review of "The Ocean and All Its Devices"]
* [http://www.fantasybookspot.com/node/1412 Review of "Resume with Monsters"]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9902E4DD1039F935A15752C1A963958260 "New York Times" Review of "Zod Wallop"]
* [http://www.engel-cox.org/text/zod_wallop.html Review of "Zod Wallop"]