JOHN SHIRLEY: BASIC BIO

John Shirley is the author of more than 30 novels including Bleak History (forthcoming, 2009, Smon & Schuster) Demons, Crawlers, Wetbones, and In Darkness Waiting. His novel City Come-A-Walkin' and theA Song Called Youth trilogy -- Eclipse, Eclipse Corona, and Eclipse Penumbra are considered landmarks of cyberpunk science fiction. His short stories have been collected in half-a-dozen collections. He is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award for his collection Black Butterflies (Mark V. Ziesing). Shirley's fronted punk bands and written lyrics for his own music, as well as for Blue Öyster Cult and other bands. A principal screenwriter for The Crow, Shirley now devotes most of his time to writing for television and film. The URL for the official John Shirley Web site is is http://www.john-shirley.com.

  • Barely street-legal, Shirley's Bosch-like visions mark him out as perhaps the closest thing contemporary American fantasy has to a genuine "outsider artist." -- William Gibson

  • John Shirley achieves things that other writers wouldn't dare attempt. Brilliant. The true quill. -- Bruce Sterling

  • John Shirley is an adventurer, returning from dark and troubled regions with visionary tales to tell. I heartily recommend a journey with John Shirley at your side. -- Clive Barker

  • John Shirley never fails to produce work that is both relentlessly readable and truthful. His vivid, clear writing tells real stories. -- Pat Cadigan

  • With his electric intensity, elegant prose, and eye for details both sleazy and tender, Shirley is one of the most original voices in fiction today. -- Poppy Z. Brite

  • A postmodern Edgar Allan Poe. -- Larry McCaffrey

  • John Shirley's prophet-in-the-cyberwilderness voice deserves high billing among the best. -- Roger Zelazny

  • Shirley is a literary juggernaut, full of humor and relentless energy. -- Lewis Shiner
JOHN SHIRLEY: CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Novels written under pseudonyms, screenplays, foreign editions, short works not included)

NOVELS

  • Transmaniacon (Zebra, 1979)
  • Dracula in Love (Zebra, 1979; reprinted by Zebra 1991)
  • City Come A-Walkin' (Dell,1980; new edition Eyeball Press, 1996; reprinted Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001)
  • Three-Ring Psychus (Zebra, 1980)
  • The Brigade (Avon, 1981)
  • Cellars (Avon, 1982; new edition Infrapress, 2006)
  • Eclipse (Warner Books/Popular Library, 1985; new edition Babbage Books, 2000)
  • In Darkness Waiting (Onyx/New American Library, 1988; new edition 2005)
  • Kamus of Kadizar: The Black Hole of Carcosa (St. Martin's Press, 1988)
  • Eclipse Penumbra (Warner Books/Popular Library, 1988; new edition, Babbage Books, 2000)
  • A Splendid Chaos (Franklin Watts, 1988, new edition Babbage Books, 2006)
  • Eclipse Corona (Questar/Popular Library, 1990; new edition Babbage Books, 2001)
  • Wetbones (Mark V Ziesing, 1991; mass market paperback Leisure, 1999 )
  • Silicon Embrace (Mark V Ziesing, 1996)
  • Demons (2000, Cemetery Dance Publications)
  • The View From Hell (2001, Subterranean Press)
  • Her Hunger (2001, Subterranean Press) short novel included in Night Visions 10 edited by Richard Chizmar
  • ...And the Angel with Television Eyes (Night Shade, 2001)
  • Spider Moon (2002, Cemetery Dance)
  • Demons (new version with second novella Undercurrents (Hardcover Del Rey, 2002; tpb Del Rey, 2003)
  • Crawlers (Del Rey, 2003)
  • Constantine (movie novelization, Pocket Star, 2005)
  • Doom (movie novelization, Pocket Star, 2005)
  • War Lord (Constantine Hellraiser tie-in, Pocket Star, 2005)
  • Predator: Forever Midnight (Predator tie-in, DH Press, 2006)
  • Batman: Dead White (Batman tie-in, Pocket Star, 2006)
  • Subterranean (Constantine Hellraiser tie-in, Pocket Star, 2006)
  • The Other End (Cemetery Dance, 2007)
  • Aliens: Steel Egg (Aliens tie-in 2007, DH Press)
  • Black Glass (ESP Press, 2008)
  • Forthcoming: Bleak History (Pocket Books, 2009)
    • COLLECTIONS
    • Heatseeker (Scream, 1989 )
    • New Noir (Fiction Collective Two/Black Ice Books, 1993)
    • The Exploded Heart (Eyeball Press, 1996)
    • Black Butterflies (Mark V Ziesing, 1998; mmp Leisure, 2001)
    • Really Really Really Really Weird Stories (Night Shade Books,1999)
    • Darkness Divided (Stealth Press, March 2001)
    • Living Shadows: A Collection (Prime, 2008)
    NONFICTION
    • [Nonfiction] Gurdjieff: An Introduction to the Man & His Ideas (Tarcher, 2004)
    Further information and images on the John Shirley Web Site
    Contact: jshirley@darkecho.com