- Richard Gilliam
Richard Gilliam is an author and editor of such theme anthologies as "Confederacy of the Dead" (1993), "Phobias" (1994) and the "Grails" series (1992-94). He has contributed fantasy short stories to numerous books and magazines, and his non-fiction includes "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio" (1999).
Gilliam began as a sportswriter and worked as a publicist to Coach
Bear Bryant at theUniversity of Alabama . A veteran anthologist, he worked from his home inGreen Bay, Wisconsin .He devised the Movie Links online game in 1990, at least four years before the quite similar
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game was promoted in 1994. Gilliam's game was much more difficult in that a player was required to find the shortest number of movies linking actors as diverse as, say,Gloria Swanson andChris Farley rather than links to the same specific actor (a feat which can be memorized).Awards
His story "Caroline and Caleb" was a Best Novella nominee in the 1993 Bram Stoker Awards, given annually by the
Horror Writers Association .Read
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=eOFUxj5ClLAC&pg=PA608&lpg=PA608&dq=+%22richard+gilliam%22&source=web&ots=3gMt2VRaY5&sig=fNAGBEA6CaYdRV_iUoodJd-ly5E#PPA203,M1 Gilliam, Richard. "Crone Woman Gandy" "100 Wicked Little Witch Stories" (Sterling, 1995)]
External links
* [http://authors.wizards.pro/authors/writers/richard-gilliam Bibliography: Richard Gilliam]
* [http://www.horror.org/stokerwinnom.htm Bram Stoker Awards: Winners and Nominees]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/richard-gilliam/ Fantastic Fiction: Richard Gilliam]
* [http://www.bluecorncomics.com/2007/02/fantasy-in-native-tradition.html Newspaper Rock: Review of "Tales from the Great Turtle" (1994), edited by Piers Anthony and Richard Gilliam]
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