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Bentley Little


USA flag (b.1960)

aka Phillip Emmons

Bentley Little was born in Arizona. He received a BA in Communications and an MA in English and Comparative Literature from California State University. He currently lives in Fullerton, California with his wife and son. He also writes under the pseudonym 'Phillip Emmons'.
 

Genres: Horror
 
New Books
April 2023

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DMV
 
Novels
   The Revelation (1990)
   The Mailman (1991)
   Death Instinct (1992) (as by Phillip Emmons)
   The Summoning (1993)
   Evil Deeds (1994)
   University (1994)
     aka The Night School
   Dominion (1995)
   The Store (1996)
   The House (1997)
     aka Houses
   The Ignored (1997)
   The Town (1997)
     aka Guests
   The Walking (2000)
   The Association (2001)
   The Return (2002)
   The Policy (2003)
   The Resort (2004)
   Dispatch (2005)
   The Burning (2006)
   The Vanishing (2007)
   The Academy (2008)
   His Father's Son (2009)
   The Disappearance (2010)
   The Haunted (2012)
   The Influence (2013)
   The Consultant (2015)
   The Handyman (2017)
   The Bank (2020)
   Gloria (2021)
   DMV (2023)
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Collections
   Murmurous Haunts (1997)
   The Collection (2002)
   Four Dark Nights (2002) (with Douglas Clegg, Christopher Golden and Tom Piccirilli)
   Indignities of the Flesh (2012)
   Cut Corners Volume 1 (2012) (with Ramsey Campbell and Ray Garton)
   The Collection Volume 2 (2017)
   Walking Alone (2018)
   The Horror Zine's Book of Ghost Stories (2020) (with Sebastian Crow, Dawn G Harris, Kitty Kane, Joe R Lansdale, Elizabeth Massie, Graham Masterton, Maureen O'Leary, Jeff Parsons and Tim Waggoner)
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Anthologies edited
   The Best of Horror Library: Volumes 1-5 (2015) (with R. J. Cavender, Charles Colyott, Lorne Dixon and Tracie McBride)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Hunting (2006)
   The Mall (2006)
   The Circle (2012)
   The Washingtonians (2018) (with Richard Chizmar and Johnathan Schaech)
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Anthologies containing stories by Bentley Little
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Short stories
Witch Woman (1985)
The Potato (1991)
The Man in the Passenger Seat (1993)
Monteith (1993)
From the Mouths of Babes (1994)
The Numbers Game (1994)
The Pond (1994)
See Marilyn Monroe's Panties! (1995)
Life With Father (1998)
Connie (1999)
The Theatre (1999)


Awards
Bram Stoker Best First Novel winner (1991) : The Revelation
Bram Stoker Best Collection nominee (2003) : The Collection
Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (2012) : The Haunted


Bentley Little recommends
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Everything the Darkness Eats (2023)
Eric LaRocca
"Sherwood Anderson this isn't. In Everything the Darkness Eats, Eric LaRocca has created a truly modern horror story that boldly illuminates the harsh realities of life in contemporary small town America. His Henley's Edge is not your stereotypical community where everyone's a neighbor and every neighbor's a friend. It's a town where depression and loneliness thrive, where intolerance and bigotry undermine civic institutions, where isolation turns even loved ones into strangers. Horror fiction doesn't get more emotionally raw than this. A smart, sharp read with echoes of King's Needful Things and Barker's The Damnation Game, Everything the Darkness Eats not only has one hell of a good title, it's one hell of a good book."
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The Stones In The Field (2016)
Michael Stephan Oates
"A profoundly heartbreaking work that digs into Personal costs of a kidnapping and terrorism."
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Dungeon Brain (2012)
Benjamin Kane Ethridge
"[Ethridge] may very well point the way to the future of the genre."
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Infinity House (2012)
Shane McKenzie
"Unflinching and uncompromising, tough and talented, Shane McKenzie stands at the forefront of the next generation of horror writers."
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The Corporation (2012)
J F Gonzalez
"J.F. Gonzalez is a writer to watch."
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The Home (2005)
Scott Nicholson
"A terrific writer. Like Stephen King, he knows how to summon serious scares."

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