Have You Seen the Wind?: Selected Stories and Poems

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BearManor Media, 2011 - Literary Collections - 136 pages
Award-winning author, editor, screenwriter, and biographer William F. Nolan will be this year's guest-of-honor at PulpFest 2010. The convention will be held July 30-August 1 at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio. For further information on Nolan and PulpFest, please visit www.pulpfest.com. With 75 books and over 300 anthology appearances to his credit, William F. Nolan (author of Logan's Run) is twice winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Special Award. Most recently, he accepted the International Guilds Living Legend Award for 2002. This is the first collection of Nolan's horror fiction and verse to share a single volume. Four chilling tales of murder and madness, guns and obsession steam the pages of this haunting book, including "In Real Life," chosen for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Delve into Nolan's darkest worlds as he assembles tales of an ex-wife claiming revenge from beyond the grave... of an insane mind justifying the murder of his mate through the tall glass of a cold one... of a husband who refuses and refuses and refuses to stay dead. And top it all off with a celebration of this master's widely-praised poems, on topics ranging from Bradbury to Vienna, from Hammett to Hemingway. COMMENTARY ON NOLAN'S PROSE: "William F. Nolan is a hell of a writer! I have real admiration for his stories." PETER STRAUB "He makes a permanent dent in our memories. Nolan is able to create an atmosphere of ultimate terror, causing readers to live out his nightmares." RAY BRADBURY "He's incredibly talented. Each of his stories is like a psychiatric session from which the reader comes away knowing more about the human condition, due to Nolan's fascination with the topography of emotional torment and his infallible rendering of the troubled psyche." RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON AND ON HIS VERSE: "Nolan is a prime communicator and although he writes only two or three poems a year, he manages to communicate emotions better than most full-time poets." SMALL PRESS REVIEW

About the author (2011)

William Francis Nolan was an American author who was best known for writing stories in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. He coauthored (with George Clayton Johnson) the novel Logan's Run (1967). It was his first novel. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1976 horror film Burnt Offerings which starred Karen Black and Bette Davis. Nolan was born in Kansas City, Missouri on March 6, 1928. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute and worked for Hallmark Cards before becoming an author. Among his many awards, he was voted a Living Legend in Dark Fantasy by the International Horror Guild in 2002. During 2006, he was bestowed the honorary title of Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. In 2010, he received the Lifetime Achievement Stoker award from the Horror Writers Association (HWA). William F. Nolan died on 7/15/2021 in Vancouver, WA. He was 93.

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