Ed Gorman is an award-winning American author best known for his crime and mystery fiction. He wrote The Poker Club which is currently in post production for a film of the same name directed by Tim McCann

Tim McCann (director)

Tim McCann is an American film director and a professor of film and a director at his alma mater SUNY-Purchase.He directed his first feature film, Desolation Angels, in 1995, made on a budget of less than $50,000...

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He has written under many Pseudonyms including "E. J. Gorman" and "Daniel Ransom." He won a Spur Award

Spur Award

The Spur Award is an annual literary prize awarded by the Western Writers of America. Founded in 1953 with only four categories , the award today has expanded to include the following categories:...

 for Best Short Fiction

Spur Award for Best Short Fiction

This is a list of the works of fiction which have won the Spur Award for Best Short Fiction:* 1953 - Short Story: "Gun Job" by Thomas Thompson* 1954 - Short Story: "Blood on the Sun" by Thomas Thompson* 1955 - Short Story: "Bad Company" by S. Omar Barker...

 for his 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...

 "The Face" in 1992. His fiction collection Cages was nominated for the 1995 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 Fiction Collection

Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing for best fiction collection.-Winners and nominees:...

. His collection The Dark Fantastic was nominated for the same award in 2001.

He has contributed to many magazines and other publications including Xero

Xero (SF fanzine)

Xero was a fanzine edited and published from 1960 to 1963 by Dick Lupoff, Pat Lupoff and Bhob Stewart. With a main focus on science fiction and comic books, Xero also featured essays, satire, articles, poetry, artwork and cartoons on a wide range of other topics.The articles and letter columns...

, Black Lizard

Black Lizard

Black Lizard was a publisher imprint during the 1980s. A division of the Creative Arts Book Company of Berkeley, California, Black Lizard specialized in presenting rediscovered forgotten classic crime fiction writers and novels from the decades between the 1930s and the 1960s. Creative Arts Book...

, Cemetery Dance, the anthology

Anthology

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 Tales of Zorro

Tales of Zorro

Tales of Zorro is a 2008 anthology of Zorro stories and is the first collection of original short fiction featuring pulp hero Zorro, edited by United States author, editor and copywriter Richard Dean Starr and published by Moonstone Books in 2008...

, and many more

Novels and Novellas

• Graves' Retreat (1989)
• The Poker Club (1990)
• What the Dead Men Say (1990)
• Wolf Moon (1993)
• Shadow Games (1996)
• Cast in Dark Waters (with Thomas Piccirilli
  Thomas Piccirilli
  Tom Piccirilli is an American novelist and short story writer. He has sold over 150 stories in the mystery, thriller, horror, erotica, and science fiction fields. Piccirilli is a two-time winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for "Best Paperback Original" . He is a four-time winner of...
  
  ) (2002)
• Gun Truth (2003)

Jack Dwyer series

1. Rough Cut (1985)
2. New Improved Murder (1985)
3. Murder Straight Up (1986)
4. Murder in the Wings (1986)
5. The Autumn Dead (1987)
6. A Cry of Shadows (1990)
7. What the dead man say (1990)
   • The Dwyer Trilogy (1994) (a collection that includes The Autumn Dead, A Cry of Shadows, and the short story "Eye of the Beholder")

Robert Payne Series

1. Blood Moon (UK title Blood Red Moon) (1994)
2. Hawk Moon (1995)
3. Harlot’s Moon (1998)
4. Voodoo Moon (2000)

Sam McCain Series

1. The Day the Music Died (1999)
2. Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (2000)
3. Wake Up Little Susie (2001)
4. Save the Last Dance for Me (2002)
5. Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool (2004)
6. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (2004)
7. Fools Rush In (2007)

Dean Koontz Frankenstein series

From Dean Koontz's Frankenstein

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein

Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is the collective title of five novels co-written by Dean Koontz. Though technically of the mystery or thriller genres, the novels also feature the trappings of horror, fantasy, and science fiction....

series (they are co-authored by Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz

Dean Ray Koontz is a prolific American author best known for his novels which could be described broadly as suspense thrillers. He also frequently incorporates elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. A number of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with...

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• Book #2 City of Night
  City of Night (novel)
  City of Night is a novel released in 2005 by the best-selling author Dean Koontz and Ed Gorman. The book is the second in Koontz's series, entitled Dean Koontz's Frankenstein...
  
  

As E.J. Gorman

• The Marilyn Letters
• The First Lady
• Daughter of Darkness
• Senatorial Privilege

As Daniel Ransom

• Toys In The Attic (1986)
• The Forsaken (1988)
• The Babysitter (1989)
• Nightmare Child (1990)
• The Serpent's Kiss (1992)
• The Long Midnight (1992)
• Night Screams (1996)
• The Zone Soldiers (1996)

Anthologies

As editor and contributor

• Stalkers: 19 Original Tales By the Masters of Terror (Dark Harvest Books, 1989)
• Cat Crimes (1991) with Martin H. Greenberg
  Martin H. Greenberg
  Martin Harry Greenberg was an American speculative fiction anthologist and writer.-Biography:Dr. Martin H. Greenberg was born March 1, 1941, to Max and Mae Greenberg in South Miami Beach, Florida...
  
  
• Prisoners and Other Stories (1992)
• Dark Crimes 1 (1991)
• Dark Crimes 2 (1993)
• Dark Whispers (1993)
• Cages (1995)
• Moonchasers (1996)
• Robert Bloch's Psychos (Cemetery Dance Publications
  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...
  
  , 1997) includes the short story "Out There in the Darkness"
• The Big Book of Noir (1998)
• Famous Blue Raincoat (1999)
• October Dreams
  October Dreams
  October Dreams edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish is an anthology of Halloween-themed memories and short stories from many award winning names in dark fantasy and horror fiction...
  
  (2000)
• Such a Good Girl (2001)
• The Dark Fantastic (2001)
• The Long Silence After (2001)
• The Long Ride Back (2004)
• Different Kinds of Dead (2006)
• Wolf Woman Bay and 9 More of the Finest Crime and Mystery Novellas of the Year! (2007) with Martin H. Greenberg
• Tales of Zorro
  Tales of Zorro
  Tales of Zorro is a 2008 anthology of Zorro stories and is the first collection of original short fiction featuring pulp hero Zorro, edited by United States author, editor and copywriter Richard Dean Starr and published by Moonstone Books in 2008...
  
  (2008)

Links and references

• Ed Gorman on the Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
  
  
• Ed Gorman's official homepage
• Ed Gorman's biography on his page
• Dark Party Review Ed Gorman Discusses His Writing