Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, and prose writer whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening.” She is the author of four novels and 200 short stories and is a world-class Halloween and paranormal expert, and her awards include the Bram Stoker Award, the Rondo Hatton Award, and the Black Quill Award. Her latest releases include Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances and The Art of the Zombie Movie. Recent short stories appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2020, Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles, and Classic Monsters Unleashed. She has appeared on such popular shows and podcasts as Shock Docs, Coast to Coast, NPR’s Throughline, CNN’S Margins of Error, and Chinwag with Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma, and is also the host of the weekly Ghost Report podcast. Lisa lives in Los Angeles and online at www.lisamorton.com.

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MOST RECENT RELEASES


Scaring and Daring

Includes my story “What We Found Beneath Mount Etna”

The Horror Zine Fall 2025

Includes my story “The Witch at Midnight”

Weird Fiction Quarterly Winter 2025: Ghosts

Includes my story “Subject 42”

The Art of the Zombie Movie

Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and winner of the Rondo Hatton Award

Spine Tinglers

Stories from my Spine Tinglers podcast

Placerita

Nominated for the Rondo Hatton Award