P. D. Cacek

American author

P. D. Cacek
Born	Patricia Diana Joy Anne Cacek (1951-12-22) December 22, 1951 (age 72) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	American
Education	California State University, Long Beach (BA)
Genre	Horror fiction

Patricia Diana Joy Anne Cacek (December 22, 1951, Hollywood, California) is an American author, mostly of horror novels. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing from California State University, Long Beach in 1975.

Awards

1996 – "Metalica" – International Horror Guild Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
1996 – "Metalica" – Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (Win)
1997 – "Dust Motes" – International Horror Guild Award, Best Short Story (Nomination)
1998 – Night Prayers – Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a First Novel (Nomination)
1998 – "Leavings" – Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (Nomination)
1998 – Leavings – Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (Nomination)
1998 – "Dust Motes" – World Fantasy Award, Best Short Fiction (Win)^[1]
1999 – "The Grave" – Bram Stoker Award, Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (Nomination)

Bibliography

Novels

Night Prayers (1998)
Canyons (2000)
Night Players (2001)
The Wind Caller (2004)

Collections

Leavings (1997)
* Eros Interruptus (2005, Diplodocus Press)

Anthologies

Bell, Book & Beyond (1999)

References

^ World Fantasy Convention (2010). "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on December 1, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2011.

External links

P. D. Cacek at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Author's web page

See also

List of horror fiction authors

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World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction

1975–2000

"Pages from a Young Girl's Journal" by Robert Aickman (1975)
"Belsen Express" by Fritz Leiber (1976)
"There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding" by Russell Kirk (1977)
"The Chimney" by Ramsey Campbell (1978)
"Naples" by Avram Davidson (1979)
"Mackintosh Willy" by Ramsey Campbell (1980, tie)
"The Woman Who Loved the Moon" by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1980, tie)
"The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop (1981)
"The Dark Country" by Dennis Etchison (1982, tie)
"Do the Dead Sing?" by Stephen King (1982, tie)
"The Gorgon" by Tanith Lee (1983)
"Elle Est Trois, (La Mort)" by Tanith Lee (1984)
"The Bones Wizard" by Alan Ryan (1985, tie)
"Still Life with Scorpion" by Scott Baker (1985, tie)
"Paper Dragons" by James Blaylock (1986)
"Red Light" by David J. Schow (1987)
"Friend's Best Man" by Jonathan Carroll (1988)
"Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" by John M. Ford (1989)
"The Illusionist" by Steven Millhauser (1990)
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (1991)
"The Somewhere Doors" by Fred Chappell (1992)
"Graves" by Joe Haldeman (1993, tie)
"This Year's Class Picture" by Dan Simmons (1993, tie)
"The Lodger" by Fred Chappell (1994)
"The Man in the Black Suit" by Stephen King (1995)
"The Grass Princess" by Gwyneth Jones (1996)
"Thirteen Phantasms" by James Blaylock (1997)
"Dust Motes" by P. D. Cacek (1998)
"The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link (1999)
"The Chop Girl" by Ian R. MacLeod (2000)

2001–present

"The Pottawatomie Giant" by Andy Duncan (2001)
"Queen for a Day" by Albert E. Cowdrey (2002)
"Creation" by Jeffrey Ford (2003)
"Don Ysidro" by Bruce Holland Rogers (2004)
"Singing My Sister Down" by Margo Lanagan (2005)
"CommComm" by George Saunders (2006)
"Journey Into the Kingdom" by M. Rickert (2007)
"Singing of Mount Abora" by Theodora Goss (2008)
"26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson (2009)
"The Pelican Bar" by Karen Joy Fowler (2010)
"Fossil-Figures" by Joyce Carol Oates (2011)
"The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu (2012)
"The Telling" by Gregory Norman Bossert (2013)
"The Prayer of Ninety Cats" by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2014)
"Do You Like to Look at Monsters?" by Scott Nicolay (2015)
"Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong (2016)
"Das Steingeschöpf" by G. V. Anderson (2017)
"The Birding: A Fairy Tale" by Natalia Theodoridou (2018)
"Like a River Loves the Sky" by Emma Törzs / "Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake" by Mel Kassel (2019)
"Read After Burning" by Maria Dahvana Headley (2020)
"Glass Bottle Dancer" by Celeste Rita Baker (2021)
"(emet)" by Lauren Ring (2022)

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