Eric J. Guignard
{{short description|American novelist}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2019}}
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| name = Eric J. Guignard
| image = Author Pic - Eric J. Guignard by Sandra Jeannette Guignard.jpg
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| caption = Guignard in 2007
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|12|20|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Montebello, California, U.S.
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| occupation = horror author, publisher
| spouse = Jeannette
| children = 2
| website = {{url|www.ericjguignard.com}}
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Eric J. Guignard (born December 20, 1975, in Montebello, California) is an American horror, dark fantasy, and literary fiction anthologist, editor, and author. He is a lifelong resident of Southern California,{{cite web|url=https://horrortree.com/the-horror-tree-presents-an-interview-with-eric-j-guignard/|title=The Horror Tree Presents... An Interview with Eric J Guignard|accessdate=September 3, 2019}} and teaches Technical Writing through the University of California system.
Career
= As an author =
Eric J. Guignard has written and published over one hundred short stories including "Experiments in An Isolation Tank," published in the 2012 anthology titled Chiral Mad by Written Backwards.;{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16122965-chiral-mad|title=Goodreads entry for Chiral Mad|accessdate=September 3, 2019}} "The Tall Man," published in Shock Totem.;{{cite web|url=http://www.shocktotem.com/03/07/2016/shock-totem-10-available-now/|title=Shock Totem, Issue 10, March 7, 2016|accessdate=September 3, 2019}} and "A Case Study in Natural Selection and How it Applies to Love," published in Black Static.{{cite web|url=http://ttapress.com/1850/black-static-47/0/5/|title=Black Static, Issue 47, July 2, 2015|accessdate=September 3, 2019}} His non-fiction works include "The H Word: Horror Fiction of Tomorrow," published in Nightmare Magazine.{{cite web|url=http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/nonfiction/h-word-horror-fiction-tomorrow/|title=Nightmare Magazine, Issue 26, Nov. 2014|date=November 19, 2014 |accessdate=September 3, 2019}}
= As an editor =
In 2017, he purchased the small press company Dark Moon Books. Under this imprint, he has released several anthologies including A World of Horror{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9989383-1-8|title=Publishers Weekly Listing|accessdate=September 17, 2019}} and After Death... which won a Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology.
The press also published a series of introductory primers titled Exploring Dark Short Fiction: A Primer to.... Each release in this series promotes a specific author, including Steve Rasnic Tem (2017), Kaaron Warren (2018), Nisi Shawl (2018), and Jeffrey Ford (2019).{{cite web|url=http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/primers.html|title=Dark Moon Books Product Description|accessdate=September 17, 2019}}
Guignard also served as general editor of the [http://ericjguignard.com/haunted_library.html Haunted Library of Horror Classics], co-edited with Leslie S. Klinger) and published by the Horror Writers Association and Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks. The series consisted of Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, followed by The Beetle by Richard Marsh, Vathek by William Beckford, House on the Borderlands by William Hope Hodgson, Of One Blood by Pauline Hopkins, The Parasite and Other Tales of Terror by Arthur Conan Doyle, The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, Ghost Stories of an Antiquarian by M.R. James, Gothic Classics: The Castle of Otranto and The Old English Baron by Horace Walpole and Clara Reeve, and The Mummy! by Jane Webb.
Awards
= Bram Stoker Awards =
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Award !Category !Year !Nominated Work !Result !Ref |
| rowspan="8" |Bram Stoker Awards
| rowspan="5" |Anthology |2013 |Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations |{{Nominated}} |
| 2014
|After Death... |{{Won}} |
| 2019
|A World of Horror |{{Nominated}} |
| 2020
|Pop the Clutch |{{Nominated}} |
| 2022
|Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology... |{{Nominated}} |
| Collection
|2019 |That Which Grows Wild |{{Won}} |
| First Novel
|2020 |Doorways to the Deadeye |{{Nominated}} |
| Long Fiction
|2015 |"Dreams of a Little Suicide" |{{Nominated}} |
= Other honors =
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Nominated Work !Award !Result !Ref |
| 2011
|"Solicitors Will Be Deleted" |Seventh International Short Story Contest |{{Nominated|Special Commendation}} |
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| 2011
|"Thoughts of a Fish" |A Very Short Story Contest, February |{{Won}} |
| 2013
|"Baggage of Eternal Night" |International Thriller Writers Awards Award for Best Short Story |{{Nominated|Finalist}} |
| 2014
|Soulmate |Writers of the Future Contest |{{Nominated|Honorable Mention}} |
| 2015
|"O Shades, My Woe" |Pushcart Prize for Best Short Story |{{Nominated|Finalist}} |
Selected bibliography
=Author=
== Novels and novellas ==
- Doorways to the Deadeye (2019, JournalStone) (novel){{cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?172779|title=Internet Speculative Fiction Database|accessdate=October 2, 2019}} – {{ISBN|978-1947654976}}
- Baggage of Eternal Night (2013, JournalStone) (novella) – {{ISBN|978-1940161013}}
== Collections ==
- That Which Grows Wild: 16 Tales of Dark Fiction (2018, Cemetery Dance) – {{ISBN|978-1949491005}}
- “A Case Study in Natural Selection and How It Applies to Love”
- “Dreams of a Little Suicide"
- “The Inveterate Establishment of Daddano & Co."
- "A Journey of Great Waves"
- "The House of the Rising Sun, Forever"
- "Last Days of the Gunslinger, John Amos"
= Anthologies edited =
All anthologies below are published under Dark Moon Books unless otherwise noted.
== Exploring Dark Short Fiction ==
- Exploring Dark Short Fiction #1: A Primer to Steve Rasnic Tem (2017)
- Exploring Dark Short Fiction #2: A Primer to Kaaron Warren (2018)
- Exploring Dark Short Fiction #3: A Primer to Nisi Shawl (2018)
- Exploring Dark Short Fiction #4: A Primer to Jeffrey Ford (2019)
- Exploring Dark Short Fiction #5: A Primer to Han Song (2020)
- Exploring Dark Short Fiction #6: A Primer to Ramsey Campbell (2021)
== Horror Library ==
== Standalone ==
- Dark Tales of Lost Civilizations (2012)
- After Death… (2013)
- The Five Senses of Horror (2018)
- A World of Horror (2018)
- Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror (2019)
- Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021)
See also
References
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External links
- [http://ericjguignard.com/ EricJGuignard.com - Official site]
- [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3410564.Eric_J_Guignard Goodreads Author Page]
- [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?172779 Internet Speculative Fiction Database entry]
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