Born May 19, 1948 in Glasgow, Scotland, Matheson spent nearly a decade as director of the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop when it was held at Michigan State University in East Lansing MI. He retired as director August 1, 2005. Matheson was also Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Michigan State University, and the author of several works of non-fiction.

A public memorial service will be held on (Saturday) April 7, at 2 pm, in the MSU Alumni Chapel.

See the March issue of Locus for a complete obituary.

For more information, see the World Fantasy 2013 website.

More information, including directions to the meeting and instructions on how to nominate officers, can be found on the BFS site.

See the full story in the upcoming December issue of Locus Magazine.

The Shirley Jackson Award is an award recognizing the legacy of Shirley Jackson’s writing and are given for the best work of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic in the categories of Novel, Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Single-Author Collection, and Edited Anthology.

For more information about the jurors and the award, please see http://pgtremblay.livejournal.com/402991.html.

For more information see The Independent.

Costello has written his version for a cast of three actors and plans to create an interactive relationship with the play’s audience.  He says: “At some point, I realized that the first-person narrative structure of the novel would allow for a stage adaptation in which the lead actor could speak directly to the audience, breaking the fourth wall…. I like this style of theatre—the point is not to fool the audience into forgetting that there are only three actors, it’s to encourage the audience to use their own imaginations to actively participate in the telling of the story.”

Costello will be writing about the ongoing development of the production on his blog, Little Brother Live.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• A Dark Matter, Peter Straub (DoubleDay)

• Horns, Joe Hill (William Morrow)
• Rot and Ruin, Jonathan Maberry (Simon & Schuster)
• Dead Love, Linda Watanabe McFerrin (Stone Bridge Press)
• Apocalypse of the Dead, Joe McKinney (Pinnacle)
• Dweller, Jeff Strand (Leisure/Dark Regions Press)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel (tie)

• Black and Orange, Benjamin Kane Ethridge (Bad Moon Books)
• Castle of Los Angeles, Lisa Morton (Gray Friar)

• A Book of Tongues, Gemma Files (ChiZine)
• Spellbent, Lucy Snyder (Del Rey)

Superior Achievement Long Fiction

• Invisible Fences, Norman Prentiss (Cemetery Dance)

• The Painted Darkness, Brian James Freeman (Cemetery Dance)
• Dissolution, Lisa Mannetti (Deathwatch)
• Monsters Among Us, Kirstyn McDermott (Macabre: A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears)
• The Samhanach, Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• “The Folding Man”, Joe R. Lansdale (Haunted Legends)

• “Return to Mariabronn”, Gary Braunbeck (Haunted Legends)
• “1925: A Fall River Halloween”, Lisa Mannetti (Shroud Magazine #10)
• “In the Middle of Poplar Street”, Nate Southard (Dead Set: A Zombie Anthology)
• “Final Draft”, Mark W. Worthen (Horror Library IV)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Haunted Legends, Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas, eds. (Tor)

• Dark Faith, Maurice Broaddus & Jerry Gordon, eds. (Apex)
• Horror Library IV, R.J. Cavender & Boyd E. Harris, eds. (Cutting Block)
• Macabre: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears, Angela Challis & Marty Young, eds. (Brimstone Press)
• The New Dead, Christopher Golden, ed. (St. Martin’s Griffin)

Superior Achievement in a Collection

• Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King (Simon & Schuster)

• Occultation, Laird Barron (Night Shade Books)
• Blood and Gristle, Michael Louis Calvillo (Bad Moon Books)
• The Ones That Got Away, Stephen Graham Jones (Prime Books)
• A Host of Shadows, Harry Shannon (Dark Regions)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• To Each Their Darkness, Gary A. Braunbeck (Apex)

• The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Thomas Ligotti (Hippocampus)
• Wanted Undead or Alive, Jonathan Maberry & Janice Gable Bashman (Citadel)
• Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews, Sam Weller (Melville House)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Dark Matters, Bruce Boston (Bad Moon Books)

• Wild Hunt of the Stars, Ann K. Schwader (Sam’s Dot)
• Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist, Robin Spriggs (Anomalous Books)
• Vicious Romantic, Wrath James White (Needfire Poetry)

Ellen Datlow and Al Feldstein are the recipients of the Horror Writer’s Association Life Achievement Awards, as previously announced at Locus Online. Joe Morey of Dark Regions won the Specialty Press Award, and the Silver Hammer Award, presented for outstanding service to HWA, went to Angel Leigh McCoy. The President’s Richard Laymon Service Award was given to Michael Colangelo.

Winners were announced at the Stoker Weekend in Long Island NY, June 16-19, 2011.

Mike Resnick will be Author Guest of Honor; Rowena Morrill will be Artist Guest of Honor; Story Musgrave will be Astronaut Guest of Honor; Petty Rae Sapienza will be Fan Guest of Honor; Jane Frank will be Agent Guest of Honor; and John Scalzi will be Toastmaster.

The attending membership rate is $155 through December 31, 2010.

Each issue will sell for £2.50, and the debut issue will feature a previously-unpublished Warhammer story by John Brunner, who died in 1995. Other authors contributing work to the premiere issue include Ben Counter and Dan Abnett.

For details, see the Black Library site.

His exact age (and many other biographical details) are uncertain, but he was probably around 60. He began publishing short fiction in the ’80s, and his poems and stories appeared regularly in Asimov’s, Amazing, Analog, Weird Tales, and other publications. The Woman Between Worlds, his only novel under the MacIntyre name, appeared in 1994. Some of his poetry and humor pieces were collected in MacIntyre’s Improbable Bestiary (2001).

His SF Encyclopedia entry provides further information.