For the cricketer, go to Norman Partridge (cricketer)

Norman Partridge (cricketer)

Norman Ernest Partridge, born at Great Barr, Birmingham, on 10 August 1900 and died at Aberystwyth on 10 March 1982, was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Warwickshire...

Norman Partridge (born May 28, 1958) is an American

United States

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 author of horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 and mystery fiction

Mystery fiction

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. He has written two detective novels about retired boxer

Boxing

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 Jack Baddalach, Saguaro Riptide and The Ten Ounce Siesta. He is also the author of a Crow

The Crow

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 novel, The Crow: Wicked Prayer

The Crow: Wicked Prayer

The Crow: Wicked Prayer is a 2005 American film directed by Lance Mungia and inspired by Norman Partridge's novel of the same title. It is the fourth and final film based on The Crow comic book by James O'Barr. It had a one week theatrical premiere on June 3, 2005 at AMC Pacific Place Theatre in...

, which was adapted in 2005 into the fourth Crow movie, bearing the same name.

Mr. Partridge's 2006 novel Dark Harvest, published in a limited edition

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 of 2000 autographed copies and 24 lettered edition copies by Cemetery Dance Publications

Cemetery Dance Publications

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, was voted one of Publishers Weekly's

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 100 Best Books of 2006. It also won the 2006 Bram Stoker Award

Bram Stoker Award

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 for Best Long Fiction

Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction

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, and has been nominated for two more awards in 2007. Mr. Partridge is currently in talks with a production company about a film option.

His short stories

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 are collected in the volumes Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales, Bad Intentions, and The Man with the Barbed Wire Fists.

Awards, nominations, and honors

Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales

Won the 1992 Bram Stoker Award

Bram Stoker Award

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 for Best Fiction Collection

Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection

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Nominated for a 1993 Collections World Fantasy Award

Bad Intentions:

Nominated for a 1997 Collections World Fantasy Award

The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists:

Won the 2001 Bram Stoker Award

Bram Stoker Award

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 for Best Fiction Collection

Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection

The Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing for best fiction collection.-Winners and nominees:...

Dark Harvest:

Selected as one of Publishers Weekly's

Publishers Weekly

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 100 Best Books of 2006.

Won the 2006 Bram Stoker Award

Bram Stoker Award

The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association for "superior achievement" in horror writing. The awards have been presented annually since 1987, and the winners are selected by ballot of the Active members of the HWA...

 for Best Long Fiction

Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction

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.

Nominated for a 2007 World Fantasy Award

World Fantasy Award

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.

Currently nominated for a 2007 International Horror Guild Award

International Horror Guild Award

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.

Novels

• Slippin' Into Darkness (Cemetery Dance Publications
  Cemetery Dance Publications
  Cemetery Dance Publications is a specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense. Cemetery Dance was founded by Richard Chizmar, a horror author, while he was in college. It is associated with Cemetery Dance magazine, which was founded in 1988. They began to publish books in 1992.Cemetery...
  
  , 1994) ISBN 1-881475-07-7

Paperback reprinted by Kensington Books

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 in 1996. ISBN 1-57566-004-0

• Wildest Dreams (Subterranean Press
  Subterranean Press
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  , 1998) ISBN 1-89228-400-6
• The Crow: Wicked Prayer
  The Crow: Wicked Prayer
  The Crow: Wicked Prayer is a 2005 American film directed by Lance Mungia and inspired by Norman Partridge's novel of the same title. It is the fourth and final film based on The Crow comic book by James O'Barr. It had a one week theatrical premiere on June 3, 2005 at AMC Pacific Place Theatre in...
  
  (Harper, 2000) ISBN 0-06107-349-0
• Dark Harvest (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006) ISBN 1-58767-147-6

Paperback reprinted by Tor Books

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 in 2007. ISBN 0-76531-911-X

Collections

• Mr. Fox & Other Feral Tales (Roadkill Press, 1992) (cover art by Alan M. Clark
  Alan M. Clark
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  )

Introduction by Edward Bryant

Edward Bryant

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"Mr. Fox"

"The Baddest Son of a Bitch in the House"

"Black Leather Kites"

"Save the Last Dance for Me"

"Sandprint"

"Vessels"

"In Beauty, Like the Night: A Tale of the Living Dead"

This book was re-released in a revised version in 2005 by Subterranean Press

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 with 11 more short stories and authorial commentary about each story (ISBN 1-59606-032-8). Early pre-orders also came with the chapbook Dead Men Tell No Tales. The additional stories are:

"The Body Bags"

"Cosmos"

"Stackalee"

"Tooth & Nail"

"The Entourage"

"Kiss of Death"

"Treats"

"Velvet Fangs"

"!Cuidado!"

"When the Fruit Comes Ripe"

"Walkers"

"The Season of Giving"

The re-released Subterranean Press version also came in a 26 copy lettered edition which featured additional material:

"The Oldest Story in the Book"

"At the Battlements of Bannockburn"

"Ten Fingers of Death"

"Style of the Mantis"

"Man, I Just Work Here"

"Wind-Chimes"

"Cutting to the Chase"

"Satan’s Army"

"My Favorite Rejection Slip"

• Bad Intentions (Subterranean Press, 1996) ISBN 0-96498-900-X

Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale

Joe R. Lansdale

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"Johnny Halloween"

"Eighty-Eight Sins"

"The Cut Man"

"Dead Celebs"

"'59 Frankenstein"

"Candy Bars for Elvis"

"Styx"

"Wrong Side of the Road"

"Gorilla Gunslinger"

"Dead Man's Hand"

"Apotropaics"

She’s My Witch"

"Bad Intentions"

"Guignoir"

Story Notes

• The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists (Night Shade Books, 2001) ISBN 1-89238-911-8

"Seeing Past the Corners"

"Red Right Hand"

"Coyotes"

"Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu"

"The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists"

"The Pack"

"Blood Money"

"Last Kiss"

"Blackbirds"

"Wrong Turn"

"Spyder"

"In Beauty, Like the Night"

"Minutes"

"Where the Woodbine Twineth"

"Mr. Fox"

"The Hollow Man"

"Return of the Shroud"

"Tombstone Moon"

"The Mojave Two-Step"

"¡Cuidado!"

"Carne Muerta"

"Bucket of Blood"

"Undead Origami"

"Harvest"

"The Bars on Satan's Jailhouse"

Bibliography

• Lesser Demons (Subterranean Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1-59606-294-8

Available as a trade edition and a 250 copy signed limited edition (with a bonus chapbook short story)

"Second Chance"

"The Big Man"

"Lesser Demons"

"Carrion"

"The Fourth Stair up from the Second Landing"

"And What Did You See in the World?"

"Road Dogs"

"The House Inside"

"Durston"

"The Iron Dead"

A Few Words After

Chapbooks

• "Spyder" (1995)
• "The Bars on Satan's Jailhouse" (1995)
• "Red Right Hand" (1998)
• "The House Inside" (2003)
• "Styx" (2003)

Anthologies

As editor:

• It Came From The Drive-In (1996) - includes Norman Partridge's short story "’59 Frankenstein"