Norman Partridge


Norman Partridge is an American writer of horror and mystery fiction. He has written two detective novels about retired boxer Jack Baddalach, Saguaro Riptide and The Ten Ounce Siesta. He is also the author of a Crow novel, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, which was adapted in 2005 into the fourth Crow movie, bearing the same name.
Mr. Partridge's 2006 novel Dark Harvest, published in a limited edition of 2000 autographed copies and 24 lettered edition copies by Cemetery Dance Publications, was voted one of Publishers Weeklys 100 Best Books of 2006. It also won the 2006 Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction, and has been nominated for two more awards in 2007. Dark Harvest was made into a film in 2023.
His short stories are collected in the volumes Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales, Bad Intentions, and The Man with the Barbed Wire Fists.
Partridge works as the library's evening circulation supervisor at Saint Mary's College of California. He gave a campus reading of Dark Harvest on October 30, 2019.
In October 2010, Cemetery Dance announced , where from October 29, 2010 to November 1, 2010, they would be offering 10/31: The Butcher's Tale by Norman Partridge, setting the print run at however many books were ordered in that window. As of July, 2022, there has been no development on this book, and apparently no plans from Partridge to deliver a manuscript.

Awards, nominations, and honors

Selected bibliography

Novels

  • Slippin' Into Darkness
  • Wildest Dreams
  • The Crow: Wicked Prayer
  • ''Dark Harvest''

    Jack Baddalach Mystery series

  • Saguaro Riptide
  • The Ten-Ounce Siesta. Berkeley Publishing Group. pp. 254.

    Collections

  • Mr. Fox & Other Feral Tales
This book was re-released in a revised version in 2005 by Subterranean Press with 11 more short stories and authorial commentary about each story. Early pre-orders also came with the chapbook Dead Men Tell No Tales. The additional stories are:
The re-released Subterranean Press version also came in a 26 copy lettered edition which featured additional material:
  • Bad Intentions
  • The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists
  • Lesser Demons
Available as a trade edition and a 250 copy signed limited edition
  • ''Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season''

    Uncollected Short Stories

  • Afterbirth of a Nation
  • Those Kids Again
  • How Naethen Learned to See
  • An Eye for an Eye
  • Castle of the Honda Monsters
  • Red Rover, Red Rover
  • Vampire Lake
  • The Mummy's Heart
  • 10/31: Bloody Mary
  • Incarnadine
  • Fever Springs
  • Special Collections
  • Backbite
  • The Island
  • ''An Ill Wind Knows Your Name''

    Chapbooks

  • "Spyder"
  • "The Bars on Satan's Jailhouse"
  • "Red Right Hand"
  • "The House Inside"
  • "Styx"

    Anthologies

As editor:
  • It Came From The Drive-In - includes Norman Partridge's short story "’59 Frankenstein"