The Mouth of the Dark

About Tim Waggoner

Tim Waggoner's first novel came out in 2001 and since then he's published over fifty novels and seven collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror as well as media tie-ins. He's written tie-in fiction based on Supernatural Grimm The X-Files Alien Doctor Who A Nightmare on Elm Street and Transformers among others and he's written novelizations for films such as Halloween Kills Resident Evil: The Final Chapter and Kingsman: The Golden Circle and. His articles on writing have appeared in Writer's Digest The Writer The Writers Chronicle. Hes the author of the acclaimed horror-writing guide Writing in the Dark which won the Bram Stoker Award in 2021. He won another Bram Stoker Award in 2021 in the category of short nonfiction for his article Speaking of Horror and in 2017 he received the Bram Stoker Award in Long Fiction for his novella The Winter Box. In addition he's been a multiple finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Scribe Award and a one-time finalist for the Splatterpunk Award. His fiction has received numerous Honorable Mentions in volumes of Best Horror of the Year and hes had several stories selected for inclusion in volumes of Years Best Hardcore Horror. His work has been translated into Russian Portuguese Japanese Spanish French Italian German Hungarian and Turkish. In addition to writing he's also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton Ohio.