Bill Pronzini
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Bill Pronzini was born in Petaluma, California on April 13, 1943. His first novel, The Stalker, was published in 1971. He is best known for his creation of the Nameless Detective Mystery series, as well as several westerns and novels of dark suspense. He has been a full time writer since 1969. He näytä lisää is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. He has won numerous awards including three Shamus Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Mystery Writers of America. His book Snowbound received the Grand Prix de la Litterature Policiere, as the best crime novel published in France in 1988. Pronzini has established himself as a master of the Western novel as well as earning a name for himself in the dark fiction genre. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Bug-Eyed Monsters: 13 Stories of Dripping, Creeping, Gurgling, Purling, Trilling, Oozing, Seeping, Gushing Deadly… (1980) — Toimittaja; Avustaja — 66 kappaletta
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Toimittaja — 52 kappaletta
Chapter and Hearse: Suspense Stories about the World of Books (1985) — Avustaja; Toimittaja — 49 kappaletta
The Arbor House Treasury of Detective and Mystery Stories from the Great Pulps (1983) — Toimittaja — 49 kappaletta
The Edgar Winners: 33rd Annual Anthology of the Mystery Writers of America (1980) — Toimittaja — 45 kappaletta
The Mystery Hall of Fame: An Anthology of Classic Mystery and Suspense Stories (1984) — Toimittaja; Avustaja — 32 kappaletta
The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novels: Twelve Espionage Masterpieces (1986) — Toimittaja — 31 kappaletta
Academy Mystery Novellas: Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Locked Room Puzzles, Great British Detectives ( BOX Set) (1985) — Toimittaja; Avustaja — 14 kappaletta
The Paradise Affair: A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery (Carpenter and Quincannon, 9) (2021) 11 kappaletta
The Western Hall of Fame: An Anthology of Classic Western Stories Selected by the Western Writers of America (1984) — Toimittaja — 10 kappaletta
Best of the West III: More Stories That Inspired Classic Western Films (1990) — Toimittaja — 10 kappaletta
Tricks and Treats: An Anthology of Mystery Stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1976) — Toimittaja; Avustaja — 9 kappaletta
The Wickedest Show on Earth: A Carnival of Circus Suspense (1985) — Toimittaja; Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
Torture Trek: And Eleven Other Action-Packed Stories of the Wild West (Barricade Classic Western) (1995) 6 kappaletta
Los Mejores Relatos Policiacos Vol. 2 / The Arbor House Treasury of Mistery and Suspense (1981) 6 kappaletta
Inaugural [short story] — Tekijä — 4 kappaletta
Proof of Guilt 3 kappaletta
Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern 3 kappaletta
Dry Spell [short story] 3 kappaletta
The Pulp Connection 3 kappaletta
Skeleton Rattle Your Mouldy Leg 3 kappaletta
Opening a Vein 2 kappaletta
Cache and Carry 2 kappaletta
The Giant book of short Crime Stories — Toimittaja — 2 kappaletta
A Clone at Last 2 kappaletta
How Now Purple Cow [short story] 2 kappaletta
Schau mir in die Augen, Schnüffler. 13 Riesen- Stories. ( Schwarze Serie). (1995) — Toimittaja — 2 kappaletta
The Arrowmont Prison Riddle 2 kappaletta
Death of a Nobody 2 kappaletta
Black Wind 2 kappaletta
I Wish I May, I Wish I Might [short story] 2 kappaletta
Invitation To Murder 1 kappale
Something Wrong [short story] 1 kappale
Souls Burning [short story] 1 kappale
Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? 1 kappale
Spook Lights Affair — Toimittaja — 1 kappale
The Big Bite 1 kappale
Memento Mori 1 kappale
What Happened to Mary? 1 kappale
The Pattern 1 kappale
Bedeviled 1 kappale
Words Do Not a Book Make 1 kappale
Escape [short story] 1 kappale
A treasury of World War 2 stories 1 kappale
Die Totenuhr 1 kappale
The Clincher [short story] 1 kappale
Ein ganz besonderes Kaliber 1 kappale
Here Comes Santa Claus 1 kappale
A Lot On His Mind 1 kappale
Nameless Detective series 1 kappale
It's a Lousy World 1 kappale
On Account of Darkness [short story] 1 kappale
Paxton's World 1 kappale
On the Nature of Time 1 kappale
Possibilities 1 kappale
The Pattern 1 kappale
Bonecrack 1 kappale
In der Kälte der Nacht 1 kappale
Teuflische Pläne 1 kappale
Gritos na Noite 1 kappale
Deathlove [short fiction] 1 kappale
I Don't Understand It 1 kappale
A Craving for Originality 1 kappale
Multiples 1 kappale
Putting The Pieces Back 1 kappale
Smuggler's Island 1 kappale
Under the Skin 1 kappale
Caught In The Act 1 kappale
His Name Was Legion 1 kappale
Rebound 1 kappale
Peekaboo 1 kappale
Two Weeks Every Summer 1 kappale
The Hanging Man 1 kappale
Black Lizard 1 kappale
Changes 1 kappale
Sanctuary 1 kappale
The Space Killers 1 kappale
The Prophecy 1 kappale
Dödens diamanter 1 kappale
Associated Works
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read with the Door Locked (1975) — Avustaja — 165 kappaletta
A Century of Great Western Stories-An Anthology of Western Fiction (2000) — Avustaja — 104 kappaletta
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 7: Magical Wishes (1891) — Avustaja — 91 kappaletta
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense (2006) — Avustaja — 72 kappaletta
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: First Annual Collection (2000) — Avustaja — 59 kappaletta
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection (2001) — Avustaja — 48 kappaletta
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Third Annual Collection (2002) — Avustaja — 43 kappaletta
Between the Dark and the Daylight and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (2009) — Avustaja — 42 kappaletta
All but Impossible! An Anthology of Locked Room and Impossible Crime Stories by Members of the Mystery Writers of… (1981) — Avustaja — 29 kappaletta
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1980, Vol. 59, No. 2 (1980) — Tekijä — 18 kappaletta
The Eyes Have It: The First Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1984) — Avustaja — 16 kappaletta
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition (1992) — Avustaja — 16 kappaletta
Justice for Hire: The Fourth Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1990) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1978, Vol. 55, No. 5 (1987) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1982, Vol. 63, No. 5 (1982) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition (1993) — Avustaja — 12 kappaletta
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Third Annual Edition (1994) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition (1998) — Avustaja — 9 kappaletta
The Best Western Stories of Lewis B. Patten (Western Writers Series) (1987) — Toimittaja — 8 kappaletta
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition (1996) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
The Best Western Stories of Wayne D. Overholser (Western Writers) (1984) — Toimittaja — 7 kappaletta
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Sixth Annual Edition (1997) — Avustaja — 5 kappaletta
Killers of the Mind: A Collection of Stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1974) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror (2019) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
Crimes and Misfortunes: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Mysteries — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
The Best Western Stories of Steve Frazee (The Western Writers Series) (1984) — Toimittaja — 3 kappaletta
Killer Crimes 2 kappaletta
La rivista di Alfred Hitchcock n.6 — Tekijä — 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Pronzini, William John
- Muut nimet
- Davis, William Hart
Foxx, Jack
Jeffrey, William
Saxon, Alex - Syntymäaika
- 1943-04-13
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Petaluma, California, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Petaluma, California, USA (birth)
- Koulutus
- Santa Rosa Junior College
- Ammatit
- detective novelist
anthologist
journalist - Suhteet
- Muller, Marcia (wife)
- Organisaatiot
- Petaluma Argus-Courier
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Grand Prix de la Litterature Policiere (best crime novel - Snowbound ∙ 1988)
Shamus Award (The Eye for Lifetime Achievement ∙ 1987)
MWA Grand Master (2008)
The Eye (Lifetime Achievement Award, PWA 1987) - Lyhyt elämäkerta
- William John Pronzini was born in Petaluma, California. He has been married three times. The first marriage was with Laura Patricia Adolphson, (1965 to 1967; divorce); the second was with Brunhilde Schier, July 28, 1972 (separated December 1985; divorce a couple years later). He married Marcia Muller (also a mystery writer) in 1992. They have collaborated on three novels: Beyond the Grave (1986), The Lighthouse, (1987); and Double (1984), a Nameless Detective novel, as well as on numerous anthologies. In 1987 he won The Eye, which is the Lifetime Achievement Award presented by The Private Eye Writers of America. It is a more exclusive version of their Shamus Award. He has been nominated three times by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar Award, and received their Grand Master designation in May of 2008.
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THE DEEP ONES: "The Girl With the Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber, The Weird Tradition (huhtikuu 2016)
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The End of Summer : Science Fiction of the Fifties… Tekijä: Barry N. And Bill Pronzini (Ed.) Malzberg
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A collection of classic horror and thriller tales by some very famous and some not so well known, including some overlooked stories by the famous. The Introduction is by Uncle Stevie, and briefly covers a lot of the same ground as did his non-fiction masterpiece on horror, [Danse Macabre]. The book is worth the price just for this missive on the inner workings of horror literature. Some of the names you'd expect: [[Edgar Allan Poe]], [[H. G. Wells]], [[H. P. Lovecraft]]. Others, not so: [[Winston Churchill]] with a thriller about a man overboard; [[Theodore Dreiser]] with a spiritualism tale.
Rather than capture all the stories, I'll hit what I thought were the high points:
The Squaw by [[Bram Stoker]], a tale of revenge from the most unlikely of characters, a cat. While this one has been largely lost to the world, no doubt owing partially to the less than politically correct title, it's chilling.
The Girl with the Hungry Eyes by Fritz Leiber, a vampire of a very different sort, and one that is imminently more frightening than most, especially the sparkly kind so popular these days.
Camps by Jack Dan, a man balances on the edge of death, dreaming of a life he didn't live in a concentration camp.
Sardonicus by Ray Russell, beware what you wish for, as the consequences may outstrip your expectations. A horribly disfigured man coerces a doctor to cure him, but the cure imprisons him beyond his original disfigurement.
The Oblong Room by Edward D. Koch, a police procedural that requires the gumshoe to expand his mind beyond the natural.
The Party by William F. Nolan, a fevered dream that cannot be escaped.
The Crate by Stephen King, this one bears a slight resemblance to [[Douglas Preston]]'s [The Relic]. Here, a man opens a long forgotten crate in a university research laboratory and unleashes a very hungry entity. But the twist here - after the beast eats a couple people, the man's friend realizes its utility in doing away with his shrew of a wife.
Highly Recommended!!!!!
4 1/2 bones!!!!!… (lisätietoja)
Rather than capture all the stories, I'll hit what I thought were the high points:
The Squaw by [[Bram Stoker]], a tale of revenge from the most unlikely of characters, a cat. While this one has been largely lost to the world, no doubt owing partially to the less than politically correct title, it's chilling.
The Girl with the Hungry Eyes by Fritz Leiber, a vampire of a very different sort, and one that is imminently more frightening than most, especially the sparkly kind so popular these days.
Camps by Jack Dan, a man balances on the edge of death, dreaming of a life he didn't live in a concentration camp.
Sardonicus by Ray Russell, beware what you wish for, as the consequences may outstrip your expectations. A horribly disfigured man coerces a doctor to cure him, but the cure imprisons him beyond his original disfigurement.
The Oblong Room by Edward D. Koch, a police procedural that requires the gumshoe to expand his mind beyond the natural.
The Party by William F. Nolan, a fevered dream that cannot be escaped.
The Crate by Stephen King, this one bears a slight resemblance to [[Douglas Preston]]'s [The Relic]. Here, a man opens a long forgotten crate in a university research laboratory and unleashes a very hungry entity. But the twist here - after the beast eats a couple people, the man's friend realizes its utility in doing away with his shrew of a wife.
Highly Recommended!!!!!
4 1/2 bones!!!!!… (lisätietoja)
Have you ever seen someone who looked so lonely that you were compelled to approach them? Jim Messenger has. In fact, he was so intrigued by a lonely looking woman at a diner that he follows her home... then embarks on a soul-searching journey across the desert to a town where he's not welcome. And all just to solve the mystery of the lonely woman. This book might be labeled a mystery, but it's more of a relationship book. As in, the relationships we form with strangers and our own loneliness.
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