Gary Raisor is an American

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 author best known for the novels Less Than Human, Graven Images, Sinister Purposes, and his extensive short fiction work. His novels garnered great reviews and sold-out print-runs. He was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel

Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel

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 for Less Than Human in 1992.

He also edited the anthology Obsessions with stories from Dean Koontz

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, Kevin J. Anderson

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, F. Paul Wilson

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, Dan Simmons

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, Joe R. Lansdale

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, and featured the story Lady Madonna by Nancy Holder

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, which won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 1991.

Raisor has written numerous short stories, beginning in the 1980s in Night Cry Magazine and The Horror Show, working his way into a lot of "Best Of" anthologies. Today, Raisor concentrates primarily on screenplays and comics.

Adaptations

His short story, The Night Caller was adapted as a short film in 2011 by Donna Thorland and Peter Podgursky.

His short story, Making Friends was adapted as a short film in 2010 by producer Greg Bartlett and director Marvin Suarez. For more info on this short film go to, "www.makingfriendsthemovie.com"

Interviews

• Interview on horrordrive-in.com