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Jonathan Carroll


(Jonathan Samuel Carroll)
USA flag (b.1949)

Jonathan Carroll is the acclaimed author of The Wooden Sea, The Land of Laughs, and many other singularly unique novels. He lives in Vienna, Austria.

Awards: Stoker (1995), BFA (1992), WFA (1988)  see all

Genres: Fantasy, Horror
 
Series
Answered Prayers
   1. Bones of the Moon (1987)
   2. Sleeping in Flame (1988)
   3. A Child Across the Sky (1989)
   4. Outside the Dog Museum (1991)
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Novels
   The Land of Laughs (1980)
   Voice of Our Shadow (1983)
   After Silence (1992)
   From the Teeth of Angels (1994)
   White Apples (2002)
   Glass Soup (2005)
   The Ghost in Love (2008)
   Bathing the Lion (2014)
   Mr. Breakfast (2023)
   Ceffo (2023)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Black Cocktail (1990)
   The Heidelberg Cylinder (2000)
   Teaching the Dog to Read (2015)
   The Loud Table (2016)
   Played Your Eyes (2018)
   Mama Bruise (2019)
   Porgee's Boar (2022)
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Books containing stories by Jonathan Carroll
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Best New Horror 31 (2021)
(Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, book 31)
edited by
Stephen Jones
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Our Prince of Scribes (2018)
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
edited by
Jonathan Haupt and Nicole Seitz

More books 


Awards
1995 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection : The Panic Hand
1992 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel : Outside the Dog Museum
1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story : Friend's Best Man

Award nominations
2013 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (nominee) : The Woman Who Married a Cloud
2013 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Woman Who Married a Cloud
2013 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Woman Who Married a Cloud
2012 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection (nominee) : The Woman Who Married a Cloud
2009 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Ghost in Love
2006 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Glass Soup
2003 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : White Apples
2003 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : White Apples
2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Wooden Sea
2002 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Wooden Sea
2000 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : The Marriage of Sticks
2000 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Marriage of Sticks
1999 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Kissing the Beehive
1997 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Panic Hand
1996 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Panic Hand
1995 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : From the Teeth of Angels
1994 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel (nominee) : From the Teeth of Angels
1993 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Uh-Oh City
1993 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Uh-Oh City
1993 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Uh-Oh City
1992 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Outside the Dog Museum
1992 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Outside the Dog Museum
1991 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Black Cocktail [short story]
1990 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : Mr Fiddlehead
1990 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : A Child Across the Sky
1990 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : A Child Across the Sky
1990 Arthur C. Clarke Award (nominee) : A Child Across the Sky
1989 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Sleeping in Flame
1989 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Sleeping in Flame
1989 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : A Child Across the Sky
1988 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (nominee) : Bones of the Moon
1987 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (nominee) : Friend's Best Man


Jonathan Carroll recommends
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The Limits of Enchantment (2005)
Graham Joyce
"Graham Joyce writes the kind of novels we keep hoping to find, but rarely do."
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The Darkest Part of the Woods (2002)
Ramsey Campbell
"A storyteller who repeatedly leaves you stunned with the flick of a phrase, or an inisght that can honestly be called awesome. The worst is never over. No one knows that better than Ramsey Campbell."

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