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, and horror writer living in Wildwood, Florida. He has more than one hundred stories to his credit and has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo,

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, and Stoker. These stories include four ''

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'' novels, including the Sinister Six trilogy, and stories involving characters of Andrea Cort, Ernst Vossoff, and Karl Nimmitz. Castro is also known for his Gustav Gloom series of middle-school novels and has also authored a reference book on ''

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Awards and nominations

Castro's fiction has been nominated for eight Nebulas, two Hugos, two Seiuns, the World Fantasy Award, and three Stokers. In 2007, Castro and

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won the

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for Best Foreign Language Short Story of the Year for "The Astronaut from Wyoming." In 2009, Castro won the

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for ''Emissaries from the Dead.'' "The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation" was nominated for the 2019

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Bibliography

Books

* ''Lost in Booth Nine: Silver Salamander'', 1993. * ''X-Men and Spider-Man: Time's Arrow Book 2 The Present'', Berkley Boulevard, 1998. With Tom DeFalco. * ''Spider-Man: The Gathering of the Sinister Six'', Berkley Boulevard, 1999. * ''An Alien Darkness'', Wildside Press, 2000. * ''A Desperate Decaying Darkness'', Wildside Press, 2000. * ''Spider-Man: The Revenge of the Sinister Six'', Ibooks, 2001. * ''Spider-Man: The Secret of the Sinister Six'', Ibooks, 2002. * ''Vossoff and Nimmitz: Just a Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time'', Wildside Press 2002 * ''Tangled Strings'', Fivestar, 2003 * ''With the Stars in their Eyes'' (collaborative collection with Jerry Oltion), Wildside Press, 2003 * ''My Ox is Broken: Roadblocks, Detours, Fast Forwards, and Other Great Moments from TV's THE AMAZING RACE'' (non-fiction). Benbella Books, 2006. * ''The Unauthorized Harry Potter'' (non-fiction). Borders Books, 2007. * ''Emissaries From the Dead: An Andrea Cort Novel''. HarperCollins Eos, 2008. * ''The Shallow End of the Pool''. Creeping Hemlock Press, 2008. * ''The Third Claw of God: An Andrea Cort Novel''. HarperCollins Eos, 2009. * ''Fake Alibis''. By Frank Sibila, with Adam-Troy Castro and Caren Kennedy. BenBella, 2009. * ''War of the Marionettes: An Andrea Cort Novel''. (German). Lubbe, 2010. * ''Z is for Zombie''. With Johnny Atomic. Eos, 2011 * ''V is for Vampire''. With Johnny Atomic. Eos, 2011. * ''Gustav Gloom and The People Taker''. Grosset and Dunlap, 2012. * ''Gustav Gloom and The Nightmare Vault''. Grosset & Dunlap, 2013 * ''Gustav Gloom and The Four Terrors''. Grosset & Dunlap, 2013. * ''Her Husband's Hands And Other Stories''. Prime Books, 2014. * ''Gustav Gloom And The Cryptic Carousel''. Grosset & Dunlap, 2014. * ''Gustav Gloom And The Inn Of Shadows''. Grosset and Dunlap, 2015. * ''Gustav Gloom And The Castle of Fear''. Grosset and Dunlap, 2016.

Short fiction

;Collections * ''Her Husband's Hands And Other Stories''. Prime Books, 2014. * ''The Author's Wife vs. The Giant Robot''. Comicmix LLC, 2022. ;Stories * "The Coward's Option". Analog. March 2016.

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