T. M. Wright

Terrance "Terry" Michael Wright (September 9, 1947 – October 31, 2015) was an American author best known as a writer of horror fiction, speculative fiction, and poetry.

Life Terrance Michael Wright was born September 9, 1947 in Syracuse, New York. His father was a traveling salesman and his mother a secretary and later a teacher. He was one of six children. His twin brother, T. Lucien Wright, was also an author in the dark fantasy genre.

T.M. Wright's first publication was a poem in the Newark Courier-Gazette in 1961.

Work Wright started his fiction career with the novel Strange Seed, published in hardcover in 1978 and in paperback in 1980. The editor was William G. Thompson at Everest House; Thompson had been one of Stephen King's first editors while working at Doubleday, which contributed to the book gaining an enthusiastic blurb from King. Strange Seed was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and would go on to beget four sequels.

A Manhattan Ghost Story, a horror novella imagining a "a city choked with ghosts, some of whom work in bordellos" who in turn discovers that his "true love" is not one of the living.

Selected bibliography Strange Seed series Strange Seed (Everest House, 1978; revised for Twisted Publishing, 2005) Nursery Tale (Playboy Press, 1982) Children of the Island (Jove, 1983) The People of the Dark (1984) Erthmun (Orion, 1995; re-released as The Laughing Man by Leisure Books, 2003)

A Manhattan Ghost Story series A Manhattan Ghost Story (Tor Books, 1984; revised for Telos Publishing, 2006) The Waiting Room (1986) A Spider on My Tongue (Nyx Books, 2006)

Ryerson Biergarten series The Changing (Tor Books, 1985; as F. W. Armstrong) The Devouring (Tor Books, 1987; as F. W. Armstrong) Goodlow's Ghosts (1992) The Ascending (1994) Sleepeasy (Gollancz, 1993; Leisure, 2001; connected, but not a direct sequel)

Standalone novels The Woman Next Door (Playboy Press, 1981; 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) The House on Orchid Street (2003) The Eyes of the Carp (Cemetery Dance, 2005) (novella) I Am the Bird (2006) (novella) Blue Canoe (2008) Sally Pinup (2010) (novella)

Short stories "His Mother’s Eyes": in Twilight Zone Magazine, June 1988; and The Sterling Web, winter 1991. "The House Under the Street" AKA "A World Without Toys": in Upstate October 26, 1986; Shadows #10, 1987; The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection, 1988; Demons and Dreams, 1989. "Circularity": in Cemetery Dance #37, 2002. "The Marybell Women": in Cemetery Dance #47, 2003. "The Screamers at the Window," in Shivers IV (anthology), Cemetery Dance, 2006. "Murder Victim": in Midnight Premiere (anthology), Cemetery Dance, 2007. "Rainy Day People": in Postscripts #10, 2007. "Fog Boy": in Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen (anthology), PS Publishing, 2010. "A Moment at the House": in Postscripts #24–25 (2011)

Anthologies Bone Soup (a collection of short stories, art, and poems, including a revised version of the novel Cold House) (Cemetery Dance Publications)