Robert R. McCammon


Robert Rick McCammon is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama. One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three New York Times bestsellers and around 5 million books in print. Since 2002, he's written ten books in a historical mystery series featuring an 18th-century magistrate’s clerk, Matthew Corbett, as he unravels mysteries in colonial America.
WWW robertmccammon.com

Personal life

His parents are Jack, a musician, and Barbara Bundy McCammon. After his parents' divorce, McCammon lived with his grandparents in Birmingham. He received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1974. McCammon lives in Birmingham. He has a daughter, Skye, with his former wife, Sally Sanders.

Career

McCammon has published multiple award-winning books, including Mine in 1990 and Boy's Life in 1991. After the release of Gone South, McCammon chose to leave his publisher. After clashing with an editor at a new publisher over the direction for his historical fiction novel Speaks the Nightbird, he retired from writing. After a long hiatus which resulted from the reorganization of the publishing industry and McCammon's personal depression and soul searching, he returned to the publishing world with Speaks the Nightbird, the first book in the Matthew Corbett series. Publishers Weekly called it a "compulsively readable yarn," and said, "McCammon's loyal fans will find his resurfacing reason to rejoice." Since 2002, seventeen new books have been published, including the ten books in the Matthew Corbett series.
In 1985, McCammon's story "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone.
After years out-of-print, Baal, Bethany's Sin, The Night Boat, and They Thirst were re-released by Subterranean Press as limited edition novels. In a 2013 interview, McCammon acknowledged that some readers would like to have a complete collection of his work, and said "reading back over those books I find they’re not as poorly written as I recall them to be."

Edited

  • ''Under the Fang''

Michael Gallatin books

Matthew Corbett series

  • Speaks the Nightbird – Later published as two paperback volumes, Judgement of the Witch and Evil Unveiled
  • The Queen of Bedlam
  • Mister Slaughter
  • The Providence Rider
  • The River of Souls
  • Freedom of the Mask
  • Cardinal Black
  • The King of Shadows
  • Seven Shades of Evil
  • ''Leviathan''

Trevor Lawson series

  • I Travel by Night
  • ''I Travel by Night 2: Last Train from Perdition''

Uncollected Short Fiction

Best Friends A Life in the Day of The Deep End The Thang Haunted World Eat Me Black Boots Lizardman Beauty The Judge Miracle Mile Death Comes for the Rich Man Blood is Thicker Than Hollywood
  • ''The Queen of Cruelty''

Awards

WorkYear & AwardCategoryResultRef.
Usher's Passing1985 Alabama Library Association Alabama Author AwardFictionWon
Nightcrawlers1985 World Fantasy AwardShort Fiction
Swan Song1987 Bram Stoker AwardNovelWon
Swan Song1988 World Fantasy AwardNovel
Swan Song1988 Locus AwardFantasy Novel
Swan Song1994 Japan Adventure Fiction Association PrizeWon
The Deep End1987 Bram Stoker AwardShort FictionWon
The Deep End2014 FantLab's Book of the Year AwardOnline Publication in Small FormWon
Best Friends1988 World Fantasy AwardNovella
Stinger1988 Bram Stoker AwardNovel
Stinger1989 Locus AwardHorror Novel
Eat Me1989 Bram Stoker AwardShort FictionWon
The Wolf's Hour1989 Bram Stoker AwardNovel
The Wolf's Hour1990 Locus AwardHorror Novel
The Wolf's Hour1992 Grand Prix de l'ImaginaireForeign NovelWon
Blue World and Other Stories1989 Bram Stoker AwardFiction Collection
Blue World and Other Stories1990 World Fantasy AwardCollection
Blue World and Other Stories1990 Locus AwardCollection
Mine1990 Bram Stoker AwardNovelWon
Boy's Life1991 Bram Stoker AwardNovelWon
Boy's Life1992 World Fantasy AwardNovelWon
Boy's Life1992 Locus AwardHorror/Dark Fantasy Novel
Boy's Life1994 Grand Prix de l'ImaginaireForeign Novel
Boy's Life1995 Japan Adventure Fiction Association PrizeWon
Speaks the Nightbird2003 Independent Publisher Book AwardsHistorical/Military FictionWon
Speaks the Nightbird2004 Alabama Library Association Alabama Author AwardFictionWon
Speaks the Nightbird2013 Audie AwardsFiction
The Border2015 Goodreads Choice AwardsHorror
Cardinal Black2019 Dragon AwardsHorror
The Listener2019 Locus AwardHorror Novel
2008 World Horror Convention Grand Master AwardWon
2009 Phoenix AwardWon
2013 Bram Stoker AwardLifetime AchievementWon