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


The Art of the Zombie Movie

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

Spine Tinglers
Placerita

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.