• Suzy McKee Charnas
• Geoffrey Huntington
• Gregory Maguire
• Michael Norman
• Fred Saberhagen
• F. Paul Wilson
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

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Horror Author Roundtable From vampire and werewolf tales to thrillers to true accounts of supernatural contact, horror is a vast genre that gets people talking --- and reading. Setting the atmosphere for Halloween, AuthorsOnTheWeb brought together seven spine-tingling masters to discuss their personal definitions of horror, share their opinions about the "horror writer" label, and reveal their first attempts at writing in the genre. Participants include Suzy McKee Charnas, Geoffrey Huntington, Gregory Maguire, Michael Norman, Fred Saberhagen, F. Paul Wilson, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.

Suzy McKee Charnas A Nebula, Hugo, and Tiptree award winner, Suzy McKee Charnas is the author of the acclaimed Holdfast Chronicles, comprised of Walk to the End of the World, Motherlines, The Furies, and The Conqueror's Child. Walk to the End of the World and Motherlines were recently published in a single volume called The Slave and the Free. Her other books include The Vampire Tapestry, Dorothea Dreams, The Bronze King, The Silver Glove, The Golden Thread, The Kingdom of Kevin Malone, Strange Seas, Music of the Night, and My Father's Ghost, a literary memoir published by Tarcher/Penguin-Putnam in Fall 2002. Charnas currently lives with her husband in New Mexico. Photo © Kyle Zimmerman • Suzy McKee Charnas' Website • University of New Mexico Press • Browse Suzy McKee Charnas' books on Amazon.com. • Author's 2002 Summer Reading List Back to top. Geoffrey Huntington Geoffrey Huntington lives in a house by the sea not far from where the ghost of a pirate is said to eternally walk the cliffs in search of his lost gold. Under another name, he is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. • Geoffrey Huntington's Website • HarperCollins • Browse Geoffrey Huntington's books on Amazon.com. Back to top. Gregory Maguire Gregory Maguire received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Tufts University. His work as a consultant in creative writing for children takes him to speaking engagements across the United States and abroad. He is a founder and codirector of Children's Literature New England, Incorporated, a non-profit educational charity established in 1987. The author of numerous books for children, Mr. Maguire is also a contributor to Am I Blue?: Coming Out From the Silence, a collection of short stories for gay and lesbian teenagers. Photo © Jill Paton Walsh • Gregory Maguire's Website • HarperCollins • Browse Gregory Maguire's books on Amazon.com. Back to top. Michael Norman Michael Norman has taught at the University of Wisconsin at River Falls for more than twenty-five years. Haunted Heritage is the fifth collaboration in the Haunted America series with co-writer Beth Scott, who died in early 1994 and was a full-time freelance writer for more than thirty-five years. Other books in the Haunted America series include Haunted America, Historic Haunted America, Haunted Heartland, and Haunted Wisconsin. • Forge • Browse Michael Norman's books on Amazon.com. Back to top. Fred Saberhagen Fred Saberhagen is the author of several popular science fiction and fantasy series. His Berserkers® have menaced the universe for over 30 years and the series has recently been optioned to New Line Cinema. Fred's Swords and Lost Swords stories have caught the imagination of many fantasy readers. Less well known, but equally intriguing are Fred's exploits in the area of historical fantasy where figures such as Hitler and Lincoln, Daedalus and the pharaohs, populate his alternate worlds. On the border of history and fantasy Fred has created a unique picture of an old favorite, Dracula. A Coldness in the Blood is his most recent novel in the Dracula series. The newest addition to Saberhagen's series is the Book of the Gods series, including The Face of Apollo, Ariadne's Web, The Arms of Hercules, God of the Golden Fleece, and Gods of Fire and Thunder. Before abandoning himself to imagination, Fred served in the US Air Force, worked as a civilian electronics technician, and wrote and edited articles on science and technology for the Encyclopedia Britannica. He now lives and works with his wife in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. • Fred Saberhagen's Website • Forge • Browse Fred Saberhagen's books on Amazon.com. Back to top. F. Paul Wilson F. Paul Wilson is the author of the Repairman Jack novels The Tomb, Legacies, Conspiracies, All the Rage, Hosts, and The Haunted Air. He is also an accomplished writer of horror, medical thrillers, and science fiction. Other recent Forge novels include Deep as the Marrow, Nightkill, co-authored with Steven Spruill, Implant, and the short story collection, The Barrens and Others. Wilson is a practicing physician and lives in New Jersey. • F. Paul Wilson's Website • Forge • Browse F. Paul Wilson's books on Amazon.com. Back to top. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro A professional writer for more than thirty years, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro has sold over seventy books, more than sixty works of short fiction, and more than two dozen essays and reviews. She also composes serious music. Her first professional writing in 1961-2, was as a playwright for a now long-defunct children's theater company. By the mid-60s she had switched to writing stories and hasn't stopped yet. After leaving college in 1963 and until she became a full-time writer in 1970, she worked as a demographic cartographer, and still often drafts maps for her books, and occasionally for the books of other writers as well. She has a large reference library with books on a wide range of subjects, everything from food and fashion to weapons and trade routes to religion and law. She is constantly adding to it as part of her on-going fascination with history and culture; she reads incessantly, searching for interesting people and places that might provide fodder for stories. A skeptical occultist for forty years, she has studied everything from alchemy to zoomancy, and in the late 1970s worked occasionally as a professional tarot card reader and palmist at the Magic Cellar in San Francisco. She has two domestic accomplishments: she is a good cook and she does needlework. The rest is catch-as-catch-can. Divorced, she lives in her hometown Berkeley, California with two autocratic cats, Laetitia and Flannel. When not busy writing, she rides her Norwegian Fjord horse Pikku Hevonen or attends the symphony or opera. At a family reunion a few years ago, a cousin Yarbro hadn't seen for over forty years reminded her that the last time they had been together, Yarbro was sitting in the dark telling scarey stories. "Guess what?" Yarbro countered. "I still am." Photo © Charles R. Lucke • Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Website • TWBookmark • Browse Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's books on Amazon.com. • Author's 2002 Summer Reading List Back to top.   (c) Copyright 2002, AuthorsOnTheWeb.com. All rights reserved.

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