Charlee Jacob
American author (1952–2019)
- Horror fiction
- dark fantasy
- poetry
Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection (2005)
Nell Anne 'Charlee' Jacob (June 2, 1952 – July 14, 2019[1]) was an American author specializing in horror fiction, dark fantasy, and poetry. Her writing career began in 1981 with the publication of several poems under the name Charlee Carter Broach. She began writing as Charlee Jacob in 1986.
This native Texan is best known for her graphic explorations of the themes of human degradation, sexual extremism, and supernatural evil. Her first novel This Symbiotic Fascination (Necro Publications, 1997) was nominated for the International Horror Guild Award and the Bram Stoker Award. Her novel Dread in the Beast tied David Morrell's Creepers for first place for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel of 2005, and her poetry collection Sineater won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection in 2005 as well.
Bibliography
Novels
- This Symbiotic Fascination (Necro 1997, Leisure 2002)
- Haunter (Leisure 2003)
- Soma (Delirium 2004)
- Vestal (Delirium 2005)
- Wormwood Nights (novella; Bloodletting 2005)
- Dread in the Beast: The Novel (Necro 2005)
- Still (Necro 2007)
- Dark Moods (Wilder 2007)
- Season of the Witch (Necro Publications 2016)[2]
Collections
- Dread in the Beast (Necro 1998)
- Up, Out of Cities That Blow Hot and Cold (Delirium 2000)
- Skin (narrative poem; 2000)
- Flowers from a Dark Star (poems; Dark Regions 2000)
- Taunting The Minotaur (2001)
- Guises (Delirium 2002)
- The Desert (poems; 2004)
- Sineater (poems; 2005)
- Geek Poems (Necro 2006)
- Heresy (poems; Necro 2007)
- The Indigo People: A Vampire Collection (Wilder 2007)
Collaborations
- Skins of Youth (with Mehitobel Wilson; 2002)
- Chim+Her (collaborative short story collection, 2003; co-writers Mike Philbin, Destiny West, Queenie Tirone, Dawn Andrews, Brutal Dreamer, Charlee Jacob, Amy Grech, Christina Sng, Alex Severin).
- The Best of Him+Chim+Her (the best stories from Chim+Her and Chim+Him; 2005). republished by Chimericana Books.
References
External links
- Charlee Jacob at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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- Misery by Stephen King and Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon (1987)
- The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (1988)
- Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (1989)
- Mine by Robert R. McCammon (1990)
- Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon (1991)
- Blood of the Lamb by Thomas F. Monteleone (1992)
- The Throat by Peter Straub (1993)
- Dead in the Water by Nancy Holder (1994)
- Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates (1995)
- The Green Mile by Stephen King (1996)
- Children of the Dusk by Janet Berliner & George Guthridge (1997)
- Bag of Bones by Stephen King (1998)
- Mr. X by Peter Straub (1999)
- The Traveling Vampire Show by Richard Laymon (2000)
- American Gods by Neil Gaiman (2001)
- The Night Class by Thomas Piccirilli (2002)
- Lost Boy, Lost Girl by Peter Straub (2003)
- In the Night Room by Peter Straub (2004)
- Dread in the Beast by Charlee Jacob and Creepers by David Morrell (2005)
- Lisey's Story by Stephen King (2006)
- The Missing by Sarah Langan (2007)
- Duma Key by Stephen King (2008)
- Audrey's Door by Sarah Langan (2009)
- A Dark Matter by Peter Straub (2010)
- Flesh Eaters by Joe McKinney (2011)
- The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2012)
- Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (2013)
- Blood Kin by Steve Rasnic Tem (2014)
- A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul G. Tremblay (2015)
- The Fisherman by John Langan (2016)
- Ararat by Christopher Golden (2017)
- The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul G. Tremblay (2018)
- Coyote Rage by Owl Goingback (2019)
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (2020)
- My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones (2021)
- The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias (2022)
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