Elizabeth Massie

Elizabeth Spilman Massie is an American author. She lives outside Waynesboro, Virginia with illustrator Cortney Skinner.

Career Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels and short fiction. She won the awards for her novel Sineater and novelette Stephen. In 2022, she was honored with the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

She has written historical fiction for young adults as well as mainstream fiction, media tie-ins, and non-fiction for American History textbooks and educational readers and testing programs.

Her first short horror story, "Whittler," was published in David B. Silva's The Horror Show magazine in 1984. Since then, her horror fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including, Best New Fantasy and Horror, Best New Horror, Splatterpunks, Inhuman Magazine, Grue, Hottest Blood, A Whisper of Blood, and Kolchak the Night Stalker: Casebook, "Voices in the Darkness", and more. Her story "Lock Her Room" was developed into a short film by Kai Soremekun and aired on the Showtime Network. He story "Abed" was converted into a short independent film by Jenny Lasko, Philip Nutman, and Ryan Lieske. The film was released in the summer 2012.

Massie is the creator of "Skeeryvilletown," a horror cartoon featuring creatures and monsters, which include 3-Eyed Devil Cat, Boo Boy, Wolfie, Fire Breathing Dog O' Death, Bonehead, the Witch Sisters, Rattie, and Battie.