Gary A. Braunbeck is a highly accomplished American author, best known for his work in the horror, science fiction, fantasy, and mystery genres. He is the author of the Cedar Hill series, which is based on his hometown of Newark, Ohio. Braunbeck's work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction, which he has won twice. His collection "Destinations Unknown" also won the Bram Stoker Award in 2006. In addition to his work as an author, Braunbeck is also an adjunct professor at Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania, where he teaches in an innovative Master's degree program in Writing Popular Fiction.
Braunbeck is a prolific writer, having written a total of 19 books, all of which include fiction. His work has been translated into multiple foreign languages, including Russian, Japanese, Italian, German, and French. In addition to his novels, Braunbeck has also written over 200 short stories, many of which have been published in various publications throughout the country. Some of his most famous stories are mysteries that appear in the anthology series of Cat Crimes. Braunbeck's fiction has received critical acclaim and has helped him win several prestigious awards over the years, including the Stoker award in 2006 and a Bram Stoker Award in 2005 for his book "Duty." His novella "Kiss of the Mudman" won the International Horror Guild Award in the category of Long Fiction in 2005.
Braunbeck is also an accomplished editor, having recently completed the editing of the latest installment of the anthology series called Masques, which was created by Jerry Williamson. He has served as the president of the Horror Writers Association for a certain period of time. Braunbeck is married to science fiction/fantasy author Lucy Snyder and they reside together in Columbus, Ohio.
Ceder Hill Books
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1
In Silent Graves
2004
2
Keepers
2005
3
Mr. Hands
2007
4
Coffin County
2008
5
Far Dark Fields
2009
Standalone Novels
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Title
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1
Time Was
1998
2
The Indifference of Heaven
2000
3
The Flesh Unknown
2001
4
In the Midnight Museum
2005
5
Prodigal Blues
2006
Short Story Collections
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1
Things Left Behind
1997
2
Escaping Purgatory
2001
3
From Beneath These Fields of Blood
2002
4
Graveyard People
2003
5
X3
2003
6
Home Before Dark
2005
7
Destinations Unknown
2006
8
Cages and Those Who Hold the Keys
2011
9
Rose of Sharon and Other Stories
2013
10
Halfway Down The Stairs
2015
Non-Fiction Books
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1
Fear in a Handful of Dust
2004
2
To Each Their Darkness
2010
Dark Matter Books
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1
In Hollow Houses
2000
2
If Whispers Call
2000
3
Of Aged Angels
2001
4
By Dust Consumed
2001
Short Stories/Novellas
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1
Duty
2003
2
Just out of Reach
2004
3
We Now Pause for Station Identification
2005
4
Afterward, There Will Be a Hallway
2007
5
The Great Pity
2013
6
Paper Cuts
2015
Valdemar Anthologies
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Year
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Valdemar Companion
1990
2
Sword of Ice and Other Tales of Valdemar
1997
3
Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar
2003
4
Crossroads and Other Tales of Valdemar
2005
5
Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar
2008
6
Changing the World
2009
7
Finding the Way and Other Tales of Valdemar
2010
8
Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar
2011
9
The One Left Behind
2014
10
No True Way
2014
11
Crucible
2015
12
Tempest
2016
13
Pathways
2017
14
The Demon's Den and Other Tales of Valdemar
2018
15
Choices
2018
16
Seasons
2019
17
Passages
2020
18
Boundaries
2021
19
Shenanigans
2022
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Anything With Nothing
2023
Gary A. Braunbeck Anthologies
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Third Annual Collection
1989
2
Once Upon a Crime
1998
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Eleventh Annual Collection
1998
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The Best American Mystery Stories 1999
1999
5
Civil War Fantastic
2000
6
October Dreams
2000
7
Trick or Treat
2001
8
The Further Adventures of Xena: Warrior Princess
2001
9
Vivisections
2003
10
Corpse Blossoms
2005
11
Five Strokes to Midnight
2008
12
Legends of the Mountain State 2
2008
13
The Beast Within
2008
14
Horror Library, Volume 3
2008
15
The Best of Cemetery Dance II
2008
16
Dark Delicacies III: Haunted
2009
17
Mighty Unclean
2009
18
Hellbound Hearts
2009
19
The World Is Dead
2009
20
Return to Mariabronn
2010
21
Legends Of The Mountain State 4
2010
22
Haunted Legends
2010
23
Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen
2010
24
The Living Dead 2
2010
25
Hint Fiction
2010
26
The Shadow of the Unknown
2011
27
The Devil's Coattails
2012
28
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
2012
29
Appalachian Undead
2012
30
Chiral Mad
2012
31
Fear the Abyss
2012
32
Dueling Minds
2013
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Vampires Don't Sparkle!
2013
34
Barbers & Beauties
2013
35
Eulogies II
2013
36
Tales of Jack the Ripper
2013
37
Enter at Your Own Risk: Dark Muses, Spoken Silences
2013
38
Mister October, Volume I: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala
2013
39
Chiral Mad 2
2013
40
Jamais Vu
2013
41
Piercing the Darkness
2014
42
Qualia Nous
2014
43
Limbus, Inc. - Book II
2014
44
Far Voyager: A Postcripts Anthology 32/33
2014
45
Out of Tune
2014
46
No True Way
2014
47
Shadows Over Main Street
2015
48
The Library of the Dead
2015
49
Apex Magazine Issue 75
2015
50
Weirdbook 31
2015
51
Seize the Night
2015
52
Another Dimension: Anthology
2016
53
Twice Upon an Apocalypse: Lovecraftian Fairy Tales