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Robert R. McCammon

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Robert R. McCammon
BornRobert Rick McCammon
(1952-07-17) July 17, 1952 (age 72)
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Alabama (BA)
GenreHistorical mystery
Notable awardsBram Stoker Award (1987)
SpouseSally Sanders (m. 1981, div. 2011)
Children1
ParentsJack McCammon
Barbara Bundy McCammon
Website
www.robertmccammon.com

Robert Rick McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three New York Times bestsellers (The Wolf's Hour, Stinger, and Swan Song) and around 5 million books in print.[1][2] Since 2002, he's written ten books in a historical mystery series featuring an 18th-century magistrate’s clerk, Matthew Corbett, as he unravels mysteries in colonial America.

Personal life

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His parents are Jack, a musician, and Barbara Bundy McCammon. After his parents' divorce, McCammon lived with his grandparents in Birmingham. He received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1974. McCammon lives in Birmingham.[3] He has a daughter, Skye, with his former wife, Sally Sanders.

Career

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McCammon has published multiple award-winning books, including Mine in 1990 and Boy's Life in 1991.[4] After the release of Gone South, McCammon chose to leave his publisher. After clashing with an editor at a new publisher over the direction for his historical fiction novel Speaks the Nightbird, he retired from writing. After a long hiatus which resulted from the reorganization of the publishing industry and McCammon's personal depression and soul searching,[5] he returned to the publishing world with Speaks the Nightbird, the first book in the Matthew Corbett series.[6] Publishers Weekly called it a "compulsively readable yarn," and said, "McCammon's loyal fans will find his resurfacing reason to rejoice." Since 2002, seventeen new books have been published, including the ten books in the Matthew Corbett series.

In 1985, McCammon's story "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone (1985).[3]

After years out-of-print, Baal, Bethany's Sin, The Night Boat, and They Thirst were re-released by Subterranean Press as limited edition novels. In a 2013 interview, McCammon acknowledged that some readers would like to have a complete collection of his work, and said "reading back over those books I find they’re not as poorly written as I recall them to be."[3]

Bibliography

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  • Baal (1978)
  • Bethany's Sin (1980) – second published novel, but actually third written
  • The Night Boat (1980) – third published novel, but actually second written
  • They Thirst (1981)
  • Mystery Walk (1983) – first novel published in hardcover
  • Usher's Passing (1984)
  • Swan Song (1987) - The first of his novels to appear on the New York Times Bestseller List
  • Stinger (1988) – Nominated for the 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; New York Times Bestseller
  • Blue World and Other Stories (1990) (Short Story Collection)
  • Mine (1990)
  • Boy's Life (1991)
  • Gone South (1992) – Later published in an omnibus edition with Boy's Life.
  • The Five (2011)
  • The Border (May 2015)
  • The Listener (February 2018)
  • A Little Amber Book of Wicked Shots (2020) (Short Story Collection)

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  • Under the Fang (1991) (Anthology)

Michael Gallatin books

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  • The Wolf's Hour (1989) – Nominated for the 1989 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel; New York Times Bestseller
  • The Hunter from the Woods (2011) (Collection)

Matthew Corbett series

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  • Speaks the Nightbird (2002) – Later published as two paperback volumes, Judgement of the Witch and Evil Unveiled
  • The Queen of Bedlam (2007)
  • Mister Slaughter (2010)
  • The Providence Rider (2012)
  • The River of Souls (2014)
  • Freedom of the Mask (May 2016)
  • Cardinal Black (April 2019)
  • The King of Shadows (December 2022)
  • Seven Shades of Evil (Nov. 2024) (Collection)
  • Leviathan (December 2024)

Trevor Lawson series

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  • I Travel by Night (2013) (Novella)
  • I Travel by Night 2: Last Train from Perdition (Fall 2016)

Uncollected Short Fiction

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  • Best Friends (1987)
  • A Life in the Day of (1987)
  • The Deep End (1987)
  • The Thang (1989)
  • Haunted World (1989)
  • Eat Me (1989)
  • Black Boots (1989)
  • Lizardman (1989)
  • Beauty (1990)
  • The Judge (1991)
  • Miracle Mile (1991)
  • Death Comes for the Rich Man (2012)
  • Blood is Thicker Than Hollywood (2020)
  • The Queen of Cruelty (2020)

Awards

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Awards List for Robert McCammon
Work Year & Award Category Result Ref.
Usher's Passing 1985 Alabama Library Association Alabama Author Award Fiction Won [7]
Nightcrawlers 1985 World Fantasy Award Short Fiction Nominated
Swan Song 1987 Bram Stoker Award Novel Won
1988 World Fantasy Award Novel Nominated
1988 Locus Award Fantasy Novel Nominated [8]
1994 Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize Won
The Deep End 1987 Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction Won
2014 FantLab's Book of the Year Award Online Publication in Small Form Won
Best Friends 1988 World Fantasy Award Novella Nominated
Stinger 1988 Bram Stoker Award Novel Nominated
1989 Locus Award Horror Novel Nominated [9]
Eat Me 1989 Bram Stoker Award Short Fiction Won
The Wolf's Hour 1989 Bram Stoker Award Novel Nominated
1990 Locus Award Horror Novel Nominated [10]
1992 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Novel Won
Blue World and Other Stories 1989 Bram Stoker Award Fiction Collection Nominated
1990 World Fantasy Award Collection Nominated
1990 Locus Award Collection Nominated
Mine 1990 Bram Stoker Award Novel Won
Boy's Life 1991 Bram Stoker Award Novel Won
1992 World Fantasy Award Novel Won
1992 Locus Award Horror/Dark Fantasy Novel Nominated [11]
1994 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Foreign Novel Nominated
1995 Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize Won
Speaks the Nightbird 2004 Alabama Library Association Alabama Author Award Fiction Won [12]
2013 Audie Awards Fiction Nominated
2008 World Horror Convention Grand Master Award Won
2009 Phoenix Award Won
2013 Bram Stoker Award Lifetime Achievement Won
The Border 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards Horror Nominated [13]
Cardinal Black 2019 Dragon Awards Horror Nominated
The Listener 2019 Locus Award Horror Novel Nominated [14]

References

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  1. ^ As seen in foreword to Mine, ISBN 0-671-73944-1 Pocket Books paperback
  2. ^ Stefan Dziemianowicz, "McCammon, Robert R(ick)" in St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, edited by David Pringle. London : St. James Press,1998, ISBN 1-55862-206-3 (pp. 398-99)
  3. ^ a b c "Interview: Robert McCammon". 26 June 2013.
  4. ^ World Fantasy Convention. "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on 1 December 2010. Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.
  5. ^ "Robert McCammon » Robert R. McCammon - A Biographical Essay".
  6. ^ "Onyx reviews -- Speaks the Nightbird -- Robert R. McCammon". www.bevvincent.com. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  7. ^ https://alla.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/AlabamaAuthorAwardsWinners.pdf
  8. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1988
  9. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1989
  10. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1990
  11. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_1992
  12. ^ https://alla.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/AlabamaAuthorAwardsWinners.pdf
  13. ^ https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-horror-books-2015
  14. ^ https://www.sfadb.com/Locus_Awards_2019
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