Welcome!
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 a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award®, the author of four novels and over 150 short stories, and a world-class Halloween and paranormal expert. Her latest releases include Night Terrors & Other Tales, Weird Women 2 (co-edited with Leslie S. Klinger), and Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances; recent short stories appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2020, Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles, and Classic Monsters Unleashed. Forthcoming in August 2022 is Haunted Tales: Classic Stories of Ghosts and the Supernatural. Lisa lives in Los Angeles and online at www.lisamorton.com.
Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances
Coming September 26, 2020 from Reaktion Books and the University of Chicago Press. Hardback, 336 pages, illustrated in color and black and white.
Night Terrors and Other Tales
Collects 20 previously published stories, including the Bram Stoker Award-winning "Tested", and one new tale, "Night Terrors". Coming May 2021 from Omnium Gatherum.
Haunted Tales
Haunted Tales: Classic Stories of Ghosts and the Supernatural will be released on be released on August 2, 2022! Stories by Oscar Wilde, Algernon Blackwood, and more.