T. M. Wright

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T. M. Wright
Wright at a book signing in Rochester, NY, 1992
Born	Terrance Michael Wright (1947-09-09)September 9, 1947 Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Died	October 31, 2015(2015-10-31) (aged 68) Corning, New York, U.S.
Pen name	T. M. Wright, F. W. Armstrong
Occupation	Writer poet artist illustrator
Period	1968–2011
Genre	Horror fiction, Speculative fiction
Notable works	Strange Seed, A Manhattan Ghost Story, Cold House
Website
www.tmwrightonline.net

Terrance Michael "T. M." Wright (September 9, 1947 – October 31, 2015) was an American author best known as a writer of

In 2004, T. M. Wright was the judge for the inaugural Anubis Awards by Jeff Schwaner (owner of Broken Umbrella Press). He spent the last years of his life in a Corning, New York nursing home living with Parkinson's disease. Has wife, Roxane A. White-Wright lives in Corning, also. T.M. Wright died October 31, 2015, according to PalMac in Memoriam Facebook Page.^[1]

Selected bibliography

Novels and novellas

• The Woman Next Door (Playboy Press, 1981 and Tor Books, 1990)
• The Playground (Tor Books, 1982)
• Carlisle Street (1983)
• The Island (1988)
• The Place (1989)
• The School (1990)
• Boundaries (1990)
• The Last Vampire (1991)
• Little Boy Lost (1992)
• Cold House (Catalyst Press, 2003) (featuring an introduction by Jack Ketchum)
• The House on Orchid Street (2003)
• Visiting the Edge (2004) (a collection)
• The Eyes of the Carp (
  ISBN 1-58767-111-5
• I Am the Bird (2006) (a novella)
• Blue Canoe (2008)
• Sally Pinup (2010) (a novella)

• Sleepeasy (Victor Gollancz 1993, Leisure, 2001) (connected, but not a direct sequel)

Strange Seed series

1. Strange Seed (Everest House, NYC, 1978) (revised in 2005 for a limited hardcover re-release by Etwisted Publishing)
2. Nursery Tale (Playboy Press, 1982)
3. Children of the Island (Jove, 1983)
4. The People of the Dark (1984)
5. Erthmun / Laughing Man (1995/2005) (originally released as Erthmun in 1995)

A Manhattan Ghost Story series

1. A Manhattan Ghost Story (1984, revised for
   Telos Publishing Ltd.
   in 2006)
2. The Waiting Room (1986) " L'antichambre" Collection Terreur-Presses Pocket N°9059
3. A Spider on My Tongue (Nyx Books, 2006)

Short stories

• "His Mother’s Eyes," published in
  Twilight Zone Magazine
  , June, 1988) and The Sterling Web (Winter, 1991)
• "The House Under the Street" AKA "A World Without Toys," Upstate magazine (October 26, 1986),
  The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (St. Martin's Press, 1988), Demons and Dreams, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (Legend
  , 1989)
• "Circularity,"
  Cemetery Dance
  (#37, 2002)
• "The Marybell Women,"
  Cemetery Dance
  (#47, 2003)
• "The Screamers at the Window," Shivers IV (anthology) edited by Richard Chizmar (May 2006, Cemetery Dance Publications)
• "Murder Victim," Midnight Premiere (anthology) edited by
  Tom Piccirilli (June 2007, Cemetery Dance Publications
  )
• "Rainy Day People" Postscripts #10 (2007)
• "Fog Boy," Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen (anthology) edited by Harrison Howe (2010, PS Publishing)
• "A Moment at the House" The New and Perfect Man/Postscripts #24/25 (2011)

Chapbooks

• "The People on the Island" (Bandersnatch Books, 2010)
• unnamed release (Bandersnatch Books, 2010)
• unnamed release (Bandersnatch Books, 2010)

Short story collections

• Bone Soup (a collection of short stories, art, poems, and revised version of the novel Cold House) (Cemetery Dance Publications, scheduled 2010) Featuring:

Cold House (a revised version of the novel of the same name)

"The People on the Island"

"His Mother's Eyes"

"Rainy Day People"

"Tower Man"

poems

artwork

and more...

Non-fiction

• The Intelligent Man's Guide to Flying Saucers (
  AS Barnes
  , 1968)

Other publications

• "Stuff of Horror, or Gray Matter All Over the Inside of Your Skull", article for
  American Fantasy
  (Summer, 1987)
• By Reason of Darkness (2004), by William P. Simmons (contains an afterword by T. M. Wright)

Interviews

• "A Conversation with T. M. Wright," interview by Douglas A. Anderson for 2AM (Summer, 1989)
• "Tall Tales from a Master," interview by Susan M. Burdorf for The Sterling Web (Winter, 1991)
• "A Conversation with T. M. Wright" interview by
  Cemetery Dance
  (#37, 2002)
• "An Interview with T. M. Wright" interview by James R. Beach for Dark Discoveries #9 (Winter, 2007)
• "An Interview with T. M. Wright" interview by Scott Colbert for Talkbacker.com website, October, 2013
• "Interview with T. M. Wright" interview by Matt Cardin at Demon Muse (May 2010). Republished at The Teeming Brain (June 2014)

References

External links

• Bibliography on FanasticFiction.co.uk
• Bibliography on T. M. Wright official homepage. Archived from the original on 2009-10-06
• T. M. Wright at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database