Alison Littlewood is a British author of horror novels and short stories. She also writes under the name Alison J. Littlewood and the
pen name
A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name.
A pen na ...
A. J. Elwood. She currently lives in
Doncaster
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,
South Yorkshire
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I ...
with her partner.
Bibliography
*''A Cold Season'' (2012)
*''Path of Needles'' (2013)
*''The Unquiet House'' (2014)
*''Zombie Apocalypse! Acapulcalypse Now'' (2015)
*''A Cold Silence'' (2015)
*''
The Hidden People
''The Hidden People'' is a historical fantasy and horror novel by English writer Alison Littlewood, first published in the United Kingdom in October 2016 by Jo Fletcher Books. It is based on the 1895 incident in Tipperary, Ireland where B ...
'' (2016)
* ''
The Crow Garden
''The Crow Garden'' is a historical fantasy and horror novel by English writer Alison Littlewood. It was first published in the United Kingdom in October 2017 by Jo Fletcher Books. Set in Victorian England, the book is about an alienist who bec ...
'' (2017)
* ''
Mistletoe
Mistletoe is the common name for obligate hemiparasitic plants in the order Santalales. They are attached to their host tree or shrub by a structure called the haustorium, through which they extract water and nutrients from the host plant ...
'' (2019)
* ''
The Cottingley Cuckoo'' (April 2021) – using the pen name A. J. Elwood
* ''The Other Lives of Miss Emily White'' (April 2023) – using the pen name A. J. Elwood
Awards
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August Derleth Award The August Derleth Award is one of the British Fantasy Awards bestowed annually by the British Fantasy Society. The award is named after the American writer and editor August Derleth. It was inaugurated in 1972 for the best novel of the year, wa ...
for ''Path of Needles'' (2014, nominated)
*
Shirley Jackson Award
The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic are presented ...
for ''The Unquiet House'' (2015, nominated)
* Shirley Jackson Award for Short Fiction: "The Dogs Home" (The Spectral Book of Horror Stories, Spectral Press). (2015, winner)
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*August Derleth Award for ''The Unquiet House'' (2015, nominated)]
References
External links
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Wolves and Witches and Bears by Alison Littlewood
at Dread Central
Dread Central is an American website founded in 2006 that is dedicated to horror news, interviews, and reviews. It covers horror films, comics, novels, and toys. Dread Central has won the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Website ...
British horror writers
People from Wakefield
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
English women novelists
21st-century pseudonymous writers
Pseudonymous women writers
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