Kevin Andrew Murphy


Kevin Andrew Murphy is an American novelist and game writer from Northern California.

Education

He is a graduate of University of California at Santa Cruz and has a Master of Arts from University of Southern California.

Career

He has written gamebooks for Steve Jackson Games and White Wolf. He is one of the contributors to the Wild Cards book series edited by George R. R. Martin. His first solo novel, Penny Dreadful, was released in 2007. He is also the designer of several fonts on the theme of witchcraft for Scriptorium Fonts.
He wrote the essay "Unseen Horrors and Shadowy Manipulations" in the compilation Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Discuss Their Favorite Television Show. In a review in School Library Journal, Christine C. Menefee says his essay "documents instances of censorship and the attempts of network and advertisers to reshape Buffy to suit their purposes."
He completed the novel Drum into Silence posthumously for Jo Clayton.
His work has been published in the Shit Creek Review.
He has worked as a staff type designer for Scriptorium Fonts.

Novels

  • House of Secrets
  • Penny Dreadful
  • Fathom Book 1: The World Below
  • ''Drum Into Silence''

    Wild Cards universe

  • "Cursum Perficio"
  • "With a Flourish and a Flair"
  • "The Tears of Nepthys"
  • Mississippi Roll
  • Low Chicago
  • A Flint Lies in the Mud and ''But a Flint Holds Fire''

    Short fiction

  • "Masquerade"
  • "The Mercury of the Wise"
  • "Ties That Bind"
  • "I'll Give You Three Wishes...."
  • "A Cup of Honeysuckle"
  • "Sealskin"
  • "The Croquet Mallet Murders"
  • "The Dark of the Year"
  • "Headturner"
  • "Silver Nutmeg, Golden Pear"
  • "Grim Reminders"
  • "Dead and Gone"
  • "Stereopticon"
  • "The Red Elixir"
  • "The Nightwatch Is a Lonely Vigil"
  • "Death for Death"
  • "Special Interests"
  • "The Five Petals of the Lotus"
  • "Baubles, Bangles and Beads"
  • "Ferdinand Feghoot and the Zero-G Nunnery" )
  • "Gingerbread Recipe Number 13"
  • "Tacos for Tezcatlipoca"
  • "Frijoles for Fenris"
  • "Tecate for Hecate"
  • "The Restless Armadillo"
  • "Tea Smoke"

    Gamebook (partial)

  • Aces Abroad, a supplement for GURPS Wild Cards.
  • The Quintessential World of Darkness
  • ''Guide to the Traditions''