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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.

I’ll be returning to Atlas Obscura in October to teach my three-session course on the history of Halloween! Reserve your spot now.

I’ll be writing a story as part of this wonderful charity project. Donate now, and you’ll both get a wonderful anthology and will be helping cancer patients.

On Sunday, October 6th at 3 pm, I’ll be signing Videotapes from Hell (I contributed a piece on Something Weird Video) at Dark Delicacies.

I’ll be attending StokerCon in Stamford, Connecticut, June 12-June 15, 2025.