Norman Partridge (born May 28, 1958) is an American writer of
horror and
mystery fiction
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. He has written two detective novels about retired
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Jack Baddalach, ''Saguaro Riptide'' and ''The Ten Ounce Siesta''. He is also the author of a
Crow
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novel, ''
The Crow: Wicked Prayer'', which was adapted in 2005 into the fourth Crow movie, bearing the same name.
Mr. Partridge's 2006 novel
''Dark Harvest'', published in a
limited edition
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of 2000
autographed
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copies and 24
lettered edition
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copies by
Cemetery Dance Publications
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, was voted one of ''
Publishers Weekly
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''s 100 Best Books of 2006. It also won the 2006
Bram Stoker Award
The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in dark fantasy and horror writing.
History
The Awards were established in 1987 and have been presented annually since ...
for
Best Long Fiction, and has been nominated for two more awards in 2007. ''Dark Harvest'' was made into a film in 2023.
His
short stories
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are collected in the volumes ''Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales'', ''Bad Intentions'', and ''The Man with the Barbed Wire Fists''.
Partridge works as the library's evening circulation supervisor at
Saint Mary's College of California
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. He gave a campus reading of ''Dark Harvest'' on October 30, 2019.
In October 2010, Cemetery Dance announce
the "Four Days of Halloween" Limited Edition promotional offer where from October 29, 2010 to November 1, 2010, they would be offering ''10/31: The Butcher's Tale'' by Norman Partridge, setting the print run at however many books were ordered in that window. As of July, 2022, there has been no development on this book, and apparently no plans from Partridge to deliver a manuscript.
Awards, nominations, and honors
Selected bibliography
Novels
*''Slippin' Into Darkness'' (
Cemetery Dance Publications
Cemetery Dance is an American company known for their specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense and their horror magazine of the same name. Cemetery Dance was founded by Richard Chizmar, a horror author, while he was in college. Ce ...
, 1994)
:Paperback reprinted by
Kensington Books
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in 1996.
*''Wildest Dreams'' (
Subterranean Press
Subterranean Press is a small press publisher in Burton, Michigan. Subterranean is best known for publishing genre fiction, primarily Horror fiction, horror, suspense and dark mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. In addition to publishing novel ...
, 1998)
*''The Crow: Wicked Prayer'' (Harper, 2000)
*''
Dark Harvest'' (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006)
:Paperback reprinted by
Tor Books
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City. It primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy titles.
History
Tor was founded by Tom Doherty, ...
in 2007.
Jack Baddalach Mystery series
*''Saguaro Riptide'' (1997)
* ''The Ten-Ounce Siesta'' (1998). Berkeley Publishing Group. pp. 254.
Collections
*''Mr. Fox & Other Feral Tales'' (Roadkill Press, 1992) (cover art by
Alan M. Clark)
:Introduction by
Edward Bryant
Edward Winslow Bryant Jr. (August 27, 1945 – February 10, 2017) was an American science fiction and horror fiction, horror writer sometimes associated with the Dangerous Visions series of anthologies that bolstered New Wave (science fiction), ...
:"Mr. Fox"
:"The Baddest Son of a Bitch in the House"
:"Black Leather Kites"
:"Save the Last Dance for Me"
:"Sandprint"
:"Vessels"
:"In Beauty, Like the Night: A Tale of the Living Dead"
This book was re-released in a revised version in 2005 by
Subterranean Press
Subterranean Press is a small press publisher in Burton, Michigan. Subterranean is best known for publishing genre fiction, primarily Horror fiction, horror, suspense and dark mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. In addition to publishing novel ...
with 11 more short stories and authorial commentary about each story (). Early pre-orders also came with the chapbook ''Dead Men Tell No Tales''. The additional stories are:
:"The Body Bags"
:"Cosmos"
:"Stackalee"
:"Tooth & Nail"
:"The Entourage"
:"Kiss of Death"
:"Treats"
:"Velvet Fangs"
:"!Cuidado!"
:"When the Fruit Comes Ripe"
:"Walkers"
:"The Season of Giving"
The re-released Subterranean Press version also came in a 26 copy lettered edition which featured additional material:
:"The Oldest Story in the Book"
:"At the Battlements of Bannockburn"
:"Ten Fingers of Death"
:"Style of the Mantis"
:"Man, I Just Work Here"
:"Wind-Chimes"
:"Cutting to the Chase"
:"Satan's Army"
:"My Favorite Rejection Slip"
*''Bad Intentions'' (Subterranean Press, 1996)
:Introduction by
Joe R. Lansdale
:"Johnny Halloween"
:"Eighty-Eight Sins"
:"The Cut Man"
:"Dead Celebs"
:"'59 Frankenstein"
:"Candy Bars for Elvis"
:"Styx"
:"Wrong Side of the Road"
:"Gorilla Gunslinger"
:"Dead Man's Hand"
:"Apotropaics"
:She's My Witch"
:"Bad Intentions"
:"Guignoir"
:Story Notes
*''The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists'' (Night Shade Books, 2001)
:"Seeing Past the Corners"
:"Red Right Hand"
:"Coyotes"
:"Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu"
:"The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists"
:"The Pack"
:"Blood Money"
:"Last Kiss"
:"Blackbirds"
:"Wrong Turn"
:"Spyder"
:"In Beauty, Like the Night"
:"Minutes"
:"Where the Woodbine Twineth"
:"Mr. Fox"
:"The Hollow Man"
:"Return of the Shroud"
:"Tombstone Moon"
:"The Mojave Two-Step"
:"¡Cuidado!"
:"Carne Muerta"
:"Bucket of Blood"
:"Undead Origami"
:"Harvest"
:"The Bars on Satan's Jailhouse"
:Bibliography
*''Lesser Demons'' (Subterranean Press, 2010)
Available as a trade edition and a 250 copy signed limited edition (with a bonus chapbook short story)
:"Second Chance"
:"The Big Man"
:"Lesser Demons"
:"Carrion"
:"The Fourth Stair up from the Second Landing"
:"And What Did You See in the World?"
:"Road Dogs"
:"The House Inside"
:"Durston"
:"The Iron Dead"
:A Few Words After
* ''Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season'' (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2010)
:"Introduction: Dark Seasons Past" by Norman Partridge
:"Johnny Halloween"
:"Satan's Army"
:"The Man Who Killed Halloween" (essay by Norman Partridge)
:"Black Leather Kites"
:"Treats"
:"Three Doors"
:"The Jack o' Lantern: A Dark Harvest Tale"
Uncollected Short Stories
* ''Afterbirth of a Nation'' (1992) (with
Brian Hodge
Brian Hodge is a writer of horror & crime, as well as an avid connoisseur of music. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he is working on his latest novel.
Brian Hodge's novels are often dark in nature, containing themes such as self-sacrifice ...
& Wayne Allen Sallee)
* ''Those Kids Again'' (1993) (with Wayne Allen Sallee)
* ''How Naethen Learned to See'' (1995) (with Wayne Allen Sallee)
* ''An Eye for an Eye'' (1996)
* ''Castle of the Honda Monsters'' (2001)
* ''Red Rover, Red Rover'' (2001)
* ''Vampire Lake'' (2011)
* ''The Mummy's Heart'' (2013)
* ''10/31: Bloody Mary'' (2013)
* ''Incarnadine'' (2013)
* ''Fever Springs'' (2014)
* ''Special Collections'' (2015)
* ''Backbite'' (2016)
* ''The Island'' (2022)
* ''An Ill Wind Knows Your Name'' (2024)
Chapbooks
*"Spyder" (1995)
*"The Bars on Satan's Jailhouse" (1995)
*"Red Right Hand" (1998)
*"The House Inside" (2003)
*"Styx" (2003)
Anthologies
As editor:
*''It Came From The Drive-In'' (1996) - includes Norman Partridge's short story "’59 Frankenstein" (with
Martin H. Greenberg
Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 – June 25, 2011) was an American academic and anthologist in many genres, including mysteries and horror, but especially in speculative fiction. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned ...
)
References
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20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American horror writers
American male novelists
1958 births
Living people
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
21st-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
Novelists from California
Writers from Vallejo, California