Elizabeth Massie

Biography

Elizabeth Massie is an award-winning author of horror novels and collections, short horror fiction, licensed media tie-ins (Dark Shadows, The Tudors, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more), mainstream fiction, historical fiction, poetry, and educational fiction and nonfiction. Her works span a wide audience, with books for adults, young adults, middle grade readers and children, as well. Her novella “Stephen” (1991) and novel Sineater (1993) both received a Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers of America. Thy Will Be Done, her 2010 novelization of the third season of Showtime’s original television series, The Tudors, won a Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers. Best selling author Bentley Little has said, “Elizabeth Massie is personally one of my favorite authors. Her writing is true, heartfelt, and wildly original. She is one of the greats.”

Elizabeth presents creative writing workshops up and down the East Coast to students in grades 3-12 as well as at the university level. She’s been a member of the human rights organization Amnesty International for 30 years. Elizabeth loves geocaching, hiking, and chai, and hates cheese, snobbery, and doing laundry.

She lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where she was born and grew up, and she shares life and abode with her husband, illustrator/artist Cortney Skinner. She can be reached through her website: www.elizabethmassie.com or through Facebook.

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Books

Desper Hollow
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 75,050. Language: English. Published: June 3, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Occult
It begins when mountain matriarch Granny Mustard decides she wants to live forever, but then is killed. Her slow-witted but equally hardheaded granddaughter Jenkie decides to pick up the ball and run with it, taking Granny's unperfected immortality moonshine recipe, a socially-inept friend named Bink, and dreams of fame and fortune to an abandoned trailer up in Desper Hollow.
The Great Chicago Fire: A Love Story
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 52,120. Language: English. Published: February 24, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Children’s books » Historical / United States / 19th Century, Fiction » Romance » Historical » American
Her family was killed and her home destroyed during the brutal Civil War. Penniless and desperate to find a new life, 18-year-old Katina Monroe flees from Georgia to Chicago, disguised as a boy. In this great city, she finds work as “William,” acting in a small theater and dreaming of writing brilliant plays that will someday bring her wealth and fame as a woman in her own name.
Madame Cruller's Couch and Other Dark and Bizarre Tales
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 89,770. Language: English. Published: August 10, 2021 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction
A small-town psychic’s trailer burns, leaving little in the wreckage but her lovely green couch. A great find for a couple who make their living scavenging and selling secondhand items. Yet Madame Cruller’s couch is imbedded with something unpleasant, and we’re not talking fleas. These are some of the stories in this chilling new collection by Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Elizabeth Massie.
Voices in the Darkness
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 84,750. Language: English. Published: April 13, 2021 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
Sometimes the world is a very dark place. You know the magic is still out there, but it feels distant, or displaced. Voices in the Darkness is an attempt to create a link, to bring some of those voices together in a single work of art. Six award-winning authors lent their talent to this work. The stories are unique, and dark, filled with wonder and emotion.
Ameri-Scares: Washington: The Deep Dark Down
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 37,320. Language: English. Published: December 18, 2020 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Horror, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy
Thirteen-year-old Anya Sullivan dreams of being an actress. Her twin, Austin, loves creating his own superhero comic books. While out by the pond in the woods, taking reference photos for Austin’s newest comic, the twins discover a hole that has been covered up for more than a hundred years. Wondering how deep it is, Austin drops a plank of wood down the hole.
Ameri-Scares Montana: Ghosts in the Dust
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 39,690. Language: English. Published: February 5, 2020 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Paranormal, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure
Cascade County, Montana… Middle schoolers Johnel Walker, Tony Walker, and Elliot Green have formed a summer book club. They gather beneath a shady tree twice a week in the Walkers’ backyard to read, discuss, and trade the books they’ve selected. Usually, the club members agree on the chosen books. But Elliot shows them a crusty, dirt-coated, ancient book he discovered in an abandoned cabin.
Ameri-scares Tennessee: Winter Haunting
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 31,960. Language: English. Published: May 3, 2019 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Horror, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Thriller & Suspense
Melody Martin is thrilled to be back in Tennessee to spend a week with her best friend, Jamie Snavely, over the winter break. Melody’s family had moved to Florida, and though Melody loves her new state, she has missed her friend. Without Melody knowing it, however, Jamie has invited another girl, to join them for a sleepover where they learn that Gwen’s stories of the Bell Witch aren't wild tales.
Ameri-Scares: North Carolina: Mountain of Mysteries
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 33,700. Language: English. Published: June 29, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Paranormal, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Adventure
Twelve-year-old Gabe Williams and eleven-year-old Isabel Diaz are camping on Brown Mountain with the Outdoor Adventures Camping Club. While there are lots of fun things to do, such as riding four-wheelers, hiking, and tubing, neither Gabe nor Isabel wants to be there. Gabe had wanted to stay home and hang out with his friend. Isabel, whose parents had recently died, just wants to be left alone.
Hell Gate
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 92,230. Language: English. Published: January 29, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Horror » General
The year is 1909. Coney Island is a bright, malodorous, and garish place, luring work-weary folks in with its dangerous roller coasters, bizarre displays, and promises of "improper" gaiety to be remembered. Three grand amusement parks—Steeplechase, Luna Park, and Dreamland—make Coney Island their home, as do countless independent shows along the Bowery.
Sundown
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 42,720. Language: English. Published: January 17, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
In the author's own words: "This is for all who stare into the darkness to better appreciate the light.” Sundown is a collection of stories selected from my (thus far) 26-year career in the field of horror fiction. Some were included in more major publications while others were published by small press anthologies and magazines." This new collection also includes poetry.
Naked, on the Edge
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 61,560. Language: English. Published: May 23, 2012 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Horror, Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author
Readers are thrust to the edge of darkness in this powerful collection of supernatural and psychological tales by Stoker Award-winning horror author, Elizabeth Massie. Isolation, alienation, desperation, greed, rage, regret – human conditions that leave us teetering on the brink, ready to crash forward into the abyss or step backward onto safer ground. “Beneath our hearts, our souls are naked.”
Abed
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 3,840. Language: English. Published: October 29, 2011 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Horror » General
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Abed - called one of the most disturbing horror stories ever written - was first published in the anthology STILL DEAD, edited by John Skipp & Craig Spector. You've seen plenty of stories of zombies, decapitation, "double-tapping" and gore...but if you've never experienced this story (now a film by Ryan Lieske...
Wire Mesh Mothers
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 89,270. Language: English. Published: July 9, 2011 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
It all started with the best of intentions. Kate McDolen, an elementary school teacher, knew she had to protect one of her students, little 8-year-old Mistie, from parents who were making her life a living hell. So Kate packed her bags, quietly picked up Mistie after school one day, and set off with her toward what she thought would be a new life. It becomes a nightmare.
Afraid
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 51,610. Language: English. Published: February 23, 2011 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Horror » General
Two-time Bram Stoker-winning, veteran horror author Elizabeth Massie offers up a collection of some of her more obscure horror shorts, a sampling spanning nearly the entire length of her 27-year career thus far. AFRAID opens the collection with a new poem, "Afraid," which plays with the question, "Why do we read horror?" There are 13 tales in all from a master storyteller.
Sineater
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 105,420. Language: English. Published: October 19, 2010 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror » General
The Sineater is to be shunned, along with his family. When Burke Campbell befriends the Sineater's son, horrible things begin to happen. The Sineater, and his family, are blamed. Can superstition be overcome? Is it superstition, or fact? Will tradition be broken...or will a family, and an Appalachian community be undone?

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