Richard Gilliam is a short story author and the editor of such theme anthologies as ''Confederacy of the Dead'' (1993), ''Phobias'' (1994) and the ''Grails'' series (1992–94). He has contributed fantasy short stories to numerous books and magazines, and his non-fiction includes ''Joltin' Joe DiMaggio'' (1999).
Gilliam began as a sportswriter and worked as a publicist to Coach
Bear Bryant
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at the
University of Alabama
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. A veteran anthologist, he worked from his home in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
He devised the Movie Links online game in 1990, and it was played extensively on GEnie four years before the quite similar Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game was promoted in 1994. Gilliam's game is much more difficult in that a player is required to find the shortest number of movies linking actors as diverse as, say, Gloria Swanson and Chris Farley rather than links to the same specific actor (a feat which can be memorized).
Awards
His story "Caroline and Caleb" was a Best Novella nominee in the 1993 Bram Stoker Awards, given annually by the Horror Writers Association.
His book "Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences" was nominated for the World Fantasy Award—Anthology#External links, World Fantasy Award—Anthology award in 1993.
Read
Gilliam, Richard. "Crone Woman Gandy" ''100 Wicked Little Witch Stories'' (Sterling, 1995)
References
External links
Bibliography: Richard GilliamBram Stoker Awards: Winners and NomineesWorld Fantasy Awards 1993Fantastic Fiction: Richard Gilliam
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American fantasy writers
American short story writers
Writers from Green Bay, Wisconsin
Living people
American male short story writers
American male novelists
Novelists from Wisconsin
Year of birth missing (living people)