A former stage hypnotist, folksinger, and teacher (from grade school to grad school), Mort Castle has been a publishing writer since 1967, with hundreds of stories, articles, comics and books published in more than a dozen languages.
Castle has won three Bram Stoker Awards®, two Black Quill awards, the Golden Bot (Wired Magazine), and has been nominated for The Audie, The Shirley Jackson award, the International Horror Guild award and the Pushcart Prize. In 2000, the Chicago Sun-Times News Group cited him as one of “Twenty-One Leaders in the Arts in Chicago’s Southland.” Poland’s Newsweek magazine ranked Obcy, the Polish language edition of The Strangers, among the “Top Ten Thriller-Horror Novels Published in 2008.”
Castle edited the contemporary classic reference work On Writing Horror for the HWA and with Sam Weller, edited both the prose anthology and the graphic novel compilation, Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury. His novels include The Deadly Election, and Cursed Be the Child, and the story collections Moon on the Water, Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead, New Moon on the Water, and Knowing When to Die.
Mort Castle was named a recipient of the prestigious 2023 Horror Writers Association (HWA) Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring him for significant, long-term contributions to the horror genre.
Castle and his wife, Jane, have been married fifty-four years. Recently diagnosed with lung cancer and a brain tumor (successfully removed surgically), Castle credits Jane, “my life’s companion,” with saving his life and spirit. They live in Crete, Illinois.
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