__NOTOC__ Adam-Troy Castro is an American

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, and horror writer living in Wildwood, Florida. He has almost two 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

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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

Castro's fiction has been nominated for eight Nebulas, two Hugos, two Seiuns, the

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, and three Stokers.

Bibliography

Books

* ''X-Men and Spider-Man: The Present'', Berkley Boulevard, 1998 (with

Tom DeFalco Tom DeFalco (born June 26, 1950) is an American comic book writer and editor well known for his association with Marvel Comics, with long runs on ''Amazing Spider-Man'', ''Thor (comic book), Thor'', ''Fantastic Four (comic book), Fantastic Four'' ...

) * ''Spider-Man: The Gathering of the Sinister Six'', Berkley Boulevard, 1999 * ''Spider-Man: The Revenge of the Sinister Six'', Ibooks, 2001 * ''Spider-Man: The Secret of the Sinister Six'', Ibooks, 2002 * ''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 * ''V Is for Vampire''. With Johnny Atomic. Eos, 2011 * ''Z Is for Zombie''. 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 * ''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

* ''Lost in Booth Nine'' (1993) * ''A Desperate, Decaying Darkness'' (2000) * ''An Alien Darkness'' (2000) * ''Vossoff and Nimmitz: Just a Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time'' (2002) * ''With the Stars in their Eyes'' (with

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) (2003) * ''Tangled Strings'' (2003) * ''Her Husband's Hands and Other Stories'' (2014) * ''And Other Stories'' (2019) * ''The Author's Wife Vs. the Giant Robot and Other Stories (2022) * ''Minnie and Earl'' (2023)

Short stories

''(Uncollected)'' * ''Clearance to Land'' (1989) * ''Confusing Sequel to a Story You Haven't Read'' (1990) * ''Synchronicity'' (1992) * ''The House of Nails'' (1993) * ''The Telltale Head'' (1993) * ''Scars: A Romance in Seven Acts'' (1993) * ''Close'' (1993) * ''Death Rents a Video'' (1994) * ''Jesus Used a Paperclip'' (1994) * ''Razorface Did That!'' (1994) * ''The Slow Hit'' (1994) * ''Crucifixon'' (1995) * ''Ragz'' (1995) * ''The Good, the Bad, the Danged'' (1995) * ''The Hand Inside'' (1995) * ''Vend-A-Witch'' (1995) * ''Family Album'' (1996) * ''The Way Things Ought to Be'' (1996) * ''What Happened Next'' (1997) * ''Crisis on Ward H!'' (1998) * ''Suds'' (1998) * ''The Death of Love'' (1998) * ''The Second Time Around'' (1998) * ''The Well'' (1998) * ''Vocabulary'' (1998) * ''Windshield'' (1998) * ''The Astronaut from Wyoming'' (1999) (with Jerry Oltion) * ''The Adventure of the Garrulous Codger'' (2003) * ''Fantasy Room'' (2004) * ''Good for the Soul'' (2005) * ''After the Protocols'' (2006) * ''The Night of the Living POTUS'' (2008) * ''After the Ice'' (2008) * ''Among the Tchi'' (2009) * ''The Anteroom'' (2010) * ''During the Pause'' (2012) * ''Another Friendly Day in the Antique Trade'' (2014) * ''The Thing About Shapes to Come'' (2014) * ''The Totals'' (2014) * ''Hide and Shriek'' (2014) * ''In the Temple of Celestial Pleasures'' (2014) * ''Down Please: The Only Recorded Adventure of Lars Fouton, Captain's Lift Operator on the Starship Magnificent'' (2015) * ''Framing Mortensen'' (2016) * ''Death Every Seventy-Two Minutes'' (2017) * ''Shakesville'' (2017) (with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro) * ''Unfamiliar Gods'' (2017) (with Judi B. Castro) * ''Q & A'' (2017) * ''James, in the Golden Sunlight of the Hereafter'' (2017) * ''A Touch of Heart'' (2017) (with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro) * ''The Mouth of the Oyster'' (2017) (with Alvaro Zinos-Amaro) * ''The Streets of Babel'' (2018) * ''Pitcher Plant'' (2018) * ''The Unnecessary Parts of the Story'' (2018) * ''The Ten Things She Said While Dying: An Annotation'' (2018) * ''Example'' (2019) * ''The Minor Superhero, at Home after His Series Ends'' (2019) * ''Sand Castles'' (2019) * ''On an Old Man's Contemplation of an Archway Sealed with Stones'' (2019) * ''Genesis for Dyslexics'' (2019) * ''Sacrid's Pod'' (2019) * ''Dollhouse'' (2019) * ''Eros Pratfalled, Or, Adrift in the Cosmos with Lasagna and Mary Steenburgen'' (2019) * ''Fortune's Final Hand'' (2020) * ''Today's Question of the Day in Waverly, Ohio'' (2020) * ''Many Happy Returns'' (2020) * ''Decorating with Luke'' (2020) * ''The Time Traveler's Advice to the Lovelorn'' (2020) * ''The End of the World Measured in Values of N'' (2020) * ''The Monkey Trap'' (2020) * ''The Wallpaper Out of Space'' (2020) * ''Answering the Questions You Might Have About the Kharbat'' (2021) * ''Rotten Little Town: An Oral History'' (Abridged) (2021) * ''The Last Science Fiction Story'' (2021) * ''And Now, a Preview of Coming Attractions'' (2021) * ''A Tableau of Things That Are'' (2021) * ''Judi'' (2021) * ''The Silence Before I Sleep'' (2021) * ''Glimpses in Amber'' (2021) * ''Ten Scenes from a Typical Day in the Life of the All-Powerful Despot'' (2021) * ''Fairy Tale'' (2021) * ''Orientation'' (2022) * ''The Last Act at the Time Cabaret'' (2022) * ''Cards on the Table'' (2022) * ''My Future Self, Refused'' (2022) * ''The Arm Ouroboros'' (2022) * ''One Wild Night'' (2022) * ''The Conflagration at the Museum of You'' (2022) * ''With the Wheeze of a Glass Sentence'' (2022) * ''The Day the Earthman Didn't Show'' (2023) * ''An Inconvenient Man'' (2023) * ''Spaceman Jones'' (2023) * ''To Fight the Colossus'' (2023) * ''Five Things That Go Through Your Mind After the Masked Killer Decapitates You with an Axe and Your Still-Living Head Has a Few Seconds of Consciousness Left to Gaze at Your Twitching Body'' (2023) * ''Seed'' (2023) * ''Farewell to Faust'' (2024) * ''Gab'' (2024) * ''The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics'' (2024) * ''The Terrible Secret of the Immortal Bards'' (2024) * ''Minnie and Earl Have a Kitten'' (2024) * ''Amelia's Story'' (2024) * ''What We Plan to Do with You'' (2024) * ''Message in a Babel'' (2025)

References

External links

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