James A. Moore
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James Arthur Moore is an American horror
novelist and short story
writer.
In 2003, he was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award
for "Best Novel"
for his book Serenity Falls. In 2006, the novella Bloodstained Oz
(co-authored by Christopher Golden
) was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Long Fiction"
. He wrote the novelization
of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Chaos Bleeds
(based on the video game written by Christopher Golden). Many of his books have been released by small press publishers like Earthling
, Cemetery Dance
as signed hardcover limited editions.
He also has done a lot of Collectible card game
and Role-playing game
related work for White Wolf, Inc including writing manuals, storyteller's guides, short stories, modules, and novels.
in 2003. Jove publishing got the rights to it and reprinted them in an expanded and extended form as three separate books in 2005. There is more story in the new Jove printings.
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
Vampire: The Masquerade
Werewolf: The Apocalypse
Mage: The Ascension
Wraith: The Oblivion
Changeling: The Dreaming
White Wolf Magazine
Horror fiction
Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...
novelist and short story
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
writer.
In 2003, he was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award
Bram Stoker Award
The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing. The awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA...
for "Best Novel"
Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel
The Bram Stoker Award for Novel is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing for novels.-Winners and nominees:The following are the nominees and winners.* 1987: Misery by Stephen King...
for his book Serenity Falls. In 2006, the novella Bloodstained Oz
Bloodstained Oz
Bloodstained Oz is a Wizard of Oz related novella by Christopher Golden and James A. Moore, and it was illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne. It was published as a limited edition hardcover by Earthling Publications in 2006...
(co-authored by Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden
Christopher Golden is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers.Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He is a graduate of Tufts University...
) was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for "Best Long Fiction"
Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction
The Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing for long fiction.-Winners and nominees:...
. He wrote the novelization
Novelization
A novelization is a novel that is written based on some other media story form rather than as an original work.Novelizations of films usually add background material not found in the original work to flesh out the story, because novels are generally longer than screenplays...
of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Chaos Bleeds
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds is a video game and the fourth video game based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise. It is the first multiplatform game in the franchise as well as the first game in the franchise to allow players to control characters other than Buffy Summers and also...
(based on the video game written by Christopher Golden). Many of his books have been released by small press publishers like Earthling
Earthling Publications
Earthling Publications is an American small press run by Paul Miller and specialising in fine limited edition books in the horror and dark fantasy genres.In 2003, Earthling won the Horror Writers Association Specialty Press Award....
, Cemetery Dance
Cemetery Dance Publications
Cemetery Dance Publications is a specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense. Cemetery Dance was founded by Richard Chizmar, a horror author, while he was in college. It is associated with Cemetery Dance magazine, which was founded in 1988. They began to publish books in 1992.Cemetery...
as signed hardcover limited editions.
He also has done a lot of Collectible card game
Collectible card game
thumb|Players and their decksA collectible card game , also called a trading card game or customizable card game, is a game played using specially designed sets of playing cards...
and Role-playing game
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
related work for White Wolf, Inc including writing manuals, storyteller's guides, short stories, modules, and novels.
Novels and novellas
- "Subject Seven" (Razorbill, 2011)
- Vendetta (Morning Star Press, 2009)
- Deeper (Hardcover: Necessary Evil Press, 2008; Paperback: Berkley, 2009) ISBN 0-425-22821-5
- "Dear Diary" - a short story available as a PDF download from Necessary Evil Press that involves a character from the novel Deeper
- Little Boy Blue - a limited edition chapbook (2008, Bloodletting Press)
- The Haunted Forest Tour - Co-authored by Jeff Strand (Earthling PublicationsEarthling PublicationsEarthling Publications is an American small press run by Paul Miller and specialising in fine limited edition books in the horror and dark fantasy genres.In 2003, Earthling won the Horror Writers Association Specialty Press Award....
, late 2007) - Blood Red (Earthling Publications, 2005 and Berkley BooksBerkley BooksBerkley Books is an imprint of Penguin Group that began as an independent company in 1955. It was established by Charles Byrne and Frederic Klein, who were working for Avon and formed "Chic News Company". They renamed it Berkley Publishing Co. in 1955. They soon found a niche in science fiction...
, 2007) ISBN 0-425-21759-0
- "Blood Tide" (Earthling Publications, 2005) - A limited edition (250 copies) short story that was given away for free at the World Horror ConventionWorld Horror ConventionThe World Horror Convention is an annual professional gathering of the World Horror Society and other interested parties.-Site selection:Historically, all World Horror Conventions have been held in the United States or Canada, usually alternating between east and west sides of the country...
in 2005. It also serves as a prologue to Blood Red.- Newbies (Smooch, 2004) ISBN 0-843-95474-4
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos BleedsBuffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos BleedsBuffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds is a video game and the fourth video game based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise. It is the first multiplatform game in the franchise as well as the first game in the franchise to allow players to control characters other than Buffy Summers and also...
(Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2003) ISBN 0-743-42767-X - Fireworks (Meisha Merlin PublishingMeisha Merlin PublishingMeisha Merlin Publishing was an independent publishing company founded in 1996 by former New York book editor Stephen Pagel and Kevin and Brian Murphy...
, 2001 and Leisure BooksLeisure BooksLeisure Books is an imprint of Dorchester Publishing specializing in Horror and Thriller mass market paperbacks. As of 2000, Leisure Books was the only U.S. publisher with a line of horror books...
, 2003) ISBN 08439-5247-4 - Under the Overtree (Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2000 and Leisure Books, 2002) ISBN 08439-5110-9
Bloodstained series
- Bloodstained OzBloodstained OzBloodstained Oz is a Wizard of Oz related novella by Christopher Golden and James A. Moore, and it was illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne. It was published as a limited edition hardcover by Earthling Publications in 2006...
- Co-authored by Christopher GoldenChristopher GoldenChristopher Golden is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers.Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He is a graduate of Tufts University...
(Earthling Publications, 2006) ISBN 0-976-63396-5 - Bloodstained Wonderland - contracted and slated (not yet published)
- Bloodstained Neverland - contracted and slated (not yet published)
Chris Corin series
- Possessions (Leisure Books, 2004) ISBN 08439-5171-0
- Rabid Growth (Leisure Books, 2005) ISBN 08439-5172-9
Harvest series
- "Harvest Moon/Harvest Gods" - short storyShort storyA short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
published in Slices - "Bone Harvest" - Chapbook limited to 500 copies published by Cemetery Dance PublicationsCemetery Dance PublicationsCemetery Dance Publications is a specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense. Cemetery Dance was founded by Richard Chizmar, a horror author, while he was in college. It is associated with Cemetery Dance magazine, which was founded in 1988. They began to publish books in 1992.Cemetery...
, 2008 - "Patchwork" - 300 copy Limited edition noveletteNoveletteA novelette is a piece of short prose fiction. The distinction between a novelette and other literary forms is usually based upon word count, with a novelette being longer than a short story, but shorter than a novella...
(Bloodletting Press, 2008) - Harvest Moon (Cemetery Dance PublicationsCemetery Dance PublicationsCemetery Dance Publications is a specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense. Cemetery Dance was founded by Richard Chizmar, a horror author, while he was in college. It is associated with Cemetery Dance magazine, which was founded in 1988. They began to publish books in 1992.Cemetery...
, 2006) ISBN 1-58767-163-8 - "Shades of Gray" - short story published in Slices (involves a character from the novel Harvest Moon)
Serenity Falls "trilogy"
This series was originally released as one book published by Meisha Merlin PublishingMeisha Merlin Publishing
Meisha Merlin Publishing was an independent publishing company founded in 1996 by former New York book editor Stephen Pagel and Kevin and Brian Murphy...
in 2003. Jove publishing got the rights to it and reprinted them in an expanded and extended form as three separate books in 2005. There is more story in the new Jove printings.
- Serenity Falls (Meisha Merlin Publishing, 2003) ISBN 1-892-06566-5
- Writ in Blood (Jove, May 2005) ISBN 0-515-13968-8
- The Pack (Jove, June 2005) ISBN 0-515-13969-6
- Dark Carnival (Jove, July 2006) ISBN 0-515-13985-8
Short stories, anthologies, and collections
- Slices - a short story collection (Earthling Publications, 2009). Contains the following:
- "Greasepainted Smile"
- "Shades of Gray" (Original to this collection)
- "War Stories"
- "Skinwalker"
- "Simon's Muse"
- "A Place where there is Peace"
- "In the Oubliette" (original to this collection)
- "Hathburn Avenue"
- "My Brother's Keeper" (original to this collection)
- "The Dark Place"
- "Harvest Gods"
- Story Notes
- Short Trips: Destination PragueShort Trips: Destination PragueShort Trips: Destination Prague is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Steven Savile and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The collection features stories set in the future of Prague.-Stories:...
- A Doctor WhoDoctor WhoDoctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
anthology featuring the short story "Room for Improvement" (Big Finish ProductionsBig Finish ProductionsBig Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays based, primarily, on cult British science fiction properties...
, 2007) ISBN 1-84435-253-6 - Halloween: New Poems - a poetry anthology edited by Al SarrantonioAl SarrantonioAl Sarrantonio is an American horror and science fiction author who has published, over the past thirty-five years, more than forty-five books and eighty short stories...
that contains the poems "They Grow Pumpkins Down There," "Jack's Lantern," and "Autumn" (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2009) ISBN 978-1-58767-205-7 - The Big Book of NECON", a collection editied by Bob Booth that features the piece "Virtually Perfect" (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2009) ISBN 978-1-58767-202-6
- British Invasion - anthology co-edited by James A. Moore, Christopher GoldenChristopher GoldenChristopher Golden is an American author of horror, fantasy, and suspense novels for adults, teens, and young readers.Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. He is a graduate of Tufts University...
, and Tim LebbonTim LebbonTim Lebbon is a horror and dark fantasy writer, and a judge at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention.-Life and career:Lebbon was born in London. His short story "Reconstructing Amy" won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001 and his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the...
featuring Kealan Patrick BurkeKealan Patrick BurkeKealan Patrick Burke was born and raised in Dungarvan, Ireland. He is best known as an award-winning author described as "a newcomer worth watching" by Publishers Weekly...
, Ramsey CampbellRamsey CampbellJohn Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...
and many others (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2009) ISBN 978-1-58767-175-3 - Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror - an anthology edited by Ryan C. Thomas that contains the story "Whatever Became of Randy" (Permuted Press, 2009) ISBN 978-1-93486-112-7
Digital chapbooks
- Discarded Blessings - a digital-only chapbookChapbookA chapbook is a pocket-sized booklet. The term chap-book was formalized by bibliophiles of the 19th century, as a variety of ephemera , popular or folk literature. It includes many kinds of printed material such as pamphlets, political and religious tracts, nursery rhymes, poetry, folk tales,...
collection (Darkside Digital, 2009). Contains the following short stories: - "Discards"
- "Mary's Blessing"
- "The Walker Place" - digital only chapbook (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2009)
- "Home for the Holidays" - digital only chapbook (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2008)
Vampire: The Eternal StruggleVampire: The Eternal StruggleVampire: The Eternal Struggle, published as Jyhad in the first or "Limited" edition and often abbreviated as VTES, V:TES or V:tES, is a multiplayer collectible card game set in the World of Darkness. It is published by White Wolf, Inc....
- House of Secrets (a novel co-authored by Kevin Andrew MurphyKevin Andrew MurphyKevin Andrew Murphy is an American novelist and game writer from Northern California. He is a graduate of University of California at Santa Cruz and has a Master of Arts from University of Southern California. He has written gamebooks for Steve Jackson Games and White Wolf. He is one of the...
) ISBN 1-565-04843-1
Vampire: The MasqueradeVampire: The MasqueradeVampire: The Masquerade is a role-playing game. Created by Mark Rein·Hagen, it was the first of White Wolf Game Studio's World of Darkness role-playing games, based on the Storyteller System and centered around vampires in a modern gothic-punk world....
- Berlin By Night, a supplement for Vampire: The Masquerade
- Vampire Players Guide Second Edition, includes
- "Creative Combat," (an essay)
- "The Samedi"
- World of Darkness 2
- Storyteller's Guide
- Demon Hunter X
- Vampire Deluxe Edition
- "Necromancy" section of the Thaumaturgy book.
Werewolf: The ApocalypseWerewolf: The ApocalypseWerewolf: The Apocalypse is a role-playing game and series of novels from the now defunct World of Darkness line by White Wolf. In the game, players take the role of werewolves known as Garou , as well as other lycanthropes: warriors who are locked in a two-front war against both the spiritual...
- Werewolf: Hell-Storm (novel) ISBN 0-061-0567-8
- When Will You Rage? (short story included)
- Book of the Wyrm, sections including:
- Enticers
- Thunderwyrms
- "The First Ronin"
- "Phantasmi, Bitter Rages"
- "Oases"
- "Dangerous Toys"
- Book of the Wyrm, Second Edition
- The Valkenburg Foundation includes his story "Skins," (reprinted in Werewolf Chronicles Volume 1).
- The Werewolf Players Guide, sections including:
- "Why the Garou Run in Packs" (short story)
- "The Get of Fenris"
- "The Wendigo"
- "The Nuwisha (Werecoyote)"
- "Do You Need a Pack?" (essay)
- The Werewolf Players Guide, Second Edition
- Storyteller's Handbook
- "In Dreams and Nightmares," for the Rage Across The Amazon supplement
- "The Black Forest Sept" for the Caerns: Places of Power supplement (reprinted in Werewolf Chronicles Volume 2).
- Three Short adventures for the Werewolf Storytellers' Screen
- Outcasts
- The Get Of Fenris Tribebook
- Freak Legion:Players Guide to the Fomori
- Nuwisha
- Werewolf: The Wild WestWerewolf: The Wild WestWerewolf: The Wild West is a role-playing game from the World of Darkness line by White Wolf Game Studio. The setting is similar to Werewolf: The Apocalypse but is taking place in the Wild West in the 19th century...
- Werewolf: The Wild West Companion
- Werewolf: The Wild West Tales from the Trails, Mexico
Mage: The AscensionMage: The AscensionMage: The Ascension is a role-playing game based in the World of Darkness, and was published by White Wolf Game Studio. The characters portrayed in the game are referred to as mages, and are capable of feats of magic...
- "Harvest Time" (an adventure for the Chantries supplement)
- The Book of Shadows: The Mage Players Hand Book, sections including:
- "The Euthanatos"
- "The Hollow Ones"
- "Orphans"
- "The Nephandi"
- The Chaos Factor (sourcebook and adventure for Mage)
- Book of Madness
- Book of Worlds
Wraith: The OblivionWraith: The OblivionWraith: The Oblivion is a role-playing game set in the afterlife of White Wolf Game Studio's World of Darkness. In the game, players take on characters who are recently dead and are now ghosts...
- Necropolis: Atlanta
- Haunts (about Hermitage Castle)
- Dark Kingdom of Jade Adventures: "Hiroshima"
- "Mediums" (short story)
- Wraith: The Oblivion, Second Edition
- Wraith Players Guide
- Shadow Players Guide
- Legions
- The Great War
Changeling: The DreamingChangeling: The DreamingChangeling: The Dreaming was part of White Wolf Game Studio's original "World of Darkness" role playing game line. Player characters are changelings, fae souls reborn into human bodies, a practice begun by the fae to protect themselves as magic vanished from the world...
- Changeling Players Guide
- Dreams and Nightmares
- Land Of Eight Million Dreams
White Wolf MagazineWhite Wolf, Inc.White Wolf Publishing is an American gaming and book publisher. The company was founded in 1991 as a merger between Lion Rampant and White Wolf Magazine, and was initially led by Mark Rein·Hagen of the former and Steve and Stewart Wieck of the latter. Since White Wolf Publishing, Inc. merged with...
- Issue #40 contains the short story "A Psychological Profile on Samuel Haight."
- Issues #42- #44 included a three part Werewolf: The ApocalypseWerewolf: The ApocalypseWerewolf: The Apocalypse is a role-playing game and series of novels from the now defunct World of Darkness line by White Wolf. In the game, players take the role of werewolves known as Garou , as well as other lycanthropes: warriors who are locked in a two-front war against both the spiritual...
adventure.
Comic books
- Clive Barker's Hellraiser issue #15 featured "Of Love, Cats and Curiosity" (James A. Moore's debut publication)