Gene O'Neill


Gene O'Neill is an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction.
O'Neill's professional writing career began after completing the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1979. Since that time, over 100 of his works have been published. His short story work has appeared in Cemetery Dance Magazine, Twilight Zone Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
O'Neill has had many occupations besides writing including postal worker, contract specialist for AAFES, college basketball player, amateur boxer, United States Marine, right-of-way agent, and vice president of a small manufacturing plant. He also holds two degrees from California State University, Sacramento and University of Minnesota.

Awards and honors

Besides having his stories reprinted worldwide, including Russia, Spain, and France, he has received many other honors including:

Bram Stoker Awards

Select bibliography

Novels and novellas

  • The Grand Struggle
  • Collected Tales of the Baja Express
  • White Tribe
  • The Confessions of St. Zach
  • Lost Tribe
  • ''Not Fade Away''

Sacramento detective series

  • Shadow of the Dark Angel
  • Deathflash
  • ''Double Jack''

Cal Wild series

  • The Burden of Indigo
  • The Armless Conductor
  • The Confessions of St. Zach
  • Doc Good's Travelling Show
  • The Great Northern Sweetwater Raid novella featured in the collection called Sideshow Exhibits
  • ''Jade''

Short stories

Stories from anthologies and magazines:
  • "The Burden of Indigo" Twilight Zone Magazine
  • "The Affective Connection" Pulpsmith
  • "Dakota Safari" Twilight Zone Magazine
  • "Alchemy" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
  • "It's in Their Eyes" from the anthology Damnations edited by R. K. Leming
  • "300 S. Montgomery" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
  • "The Shadow of the Mountain" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
  • "The White Quetzal" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
  • "The Armless Conductor" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
  • "Live Oak" from the anthology Men and Women of Letters, edited by John Yewell
  • "With Grace" Tales of the Unanticipated
  • "Awaken Dragon" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
  • "The Beautiful Stranger" Starshore
  • "The City Never Sleeps" from the anthology Dead End: City Limits edited by David B. Silva and Paul F. Olson
  • "New Kicks" Cemetery Dance Magazine #13 / Volume 4, #3
  • "Undercover" Science Fiction Age
  • "In the Big Window" Eldritch Tales #29
  • "Down on the 01 Level" Science Fiction Age
  • "The Ishikawa Proliferation" Tomorrow Speculative Fiction
  • "Groundling Dancer" Science Fiction Age
  • "The Hitchhiking Effect" Science Fiction Age
  • "Flange Turner" from the anthology Hideous Dreams edited by L. H. Maynard, M. P. N. Sims
  • "The Apotheosis of Nathan McKee" from the anthology Unnatural Selection edited by Gord Rollo
  • "Dead Cat Meets Frankenpup" from the anthology Dead Cats Bouncing edited by Gerard Houarner & GAK
  • "The Faceless Man" Redsine #8
  • "You Do the Math" Redsine #10
  • "When Legends Die" from the anthology Decadence edited by Monica J. O'Rourke
  • "Jackie" from the anthology Darkness Rising Volume 5: Black Shroud of Fear edited by M. P. N. Sims and L. H. Maynard
  • "Magic Numbers" from the anthology Borderlands 5 edited by Elizabeth E. Monteleone and Thomas F. Monteleone
  • "Masquerade" from the anthology Bare Bone #6 edited by Kevin L. Donihe
  • "White Tribe" from the anthology New Dark Voices edited by Shane Ryan Staley
  • "Dance of the Blue Lady" Cemetery Dance Magazine #53
  • "Balance" Cemetery Dance Magazine #55

Collections

  • Rockers, Shamans, Manikins & Thanathespians
  • Ghost, Spirits, Computers and World Machines
  • The Grand Struggle
  • ''The Taste of Tenderloin''