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Tim Lebbon (born 28 July 1969, London) is a British horror and dark fantasy writer.

Tim Lebbon
Born	(1969-07-28) 28 July 1969 (age 53) London
Occupation	Writer
Genre	Horror fiction, Dark fantasy
Website
www.timlebbon.net

Life

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Lebbon was born in London. He lived in Devon until he was eight and then in Newport until the age of 26. He now lives in Goytre, Monmouthshire with his wife and two children.[1]

Career

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Lebbon's short story ″Reconstructing Amy″ won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2001, his novel Dusk won the 2007 August Derleth Award from the British Fantasy Society for best novel of the year. His novelization of the film 30 Days of Night became a New York Times bestseller and won a Scribe Award in 2008.

The film Pay the Ghost (2015) directed by Uli Edel and starring Nicolas Cage is based on Lebbon's short story of the same name.[2] The Silence was made into a film by John R. Leonetti and was released 10 April 2019 on Netflix. Lebbon also made a cameo as a corpse in the film.[3]

His Firefly novel Generations (fourth in series) won the 2021 Dragon Award for Best Media Tie-In Novel.[4]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Collections:

• Faith in the Flesh (1998), collection of 2 novellas:

  "The First Law", "From Bad Flesh"

• As the Sun Goes Down (2000), collection of 15 short stories and 1 novella:

  "The Empty Room", "Life Within", "The Butterfly", "Endangered Species in C Minor", "Dust", "Fell Swoop", "Recent Wounds", "The Repulsion", "Unto Us", "The Last Good Times", "King of the Dead", "Recipe for Disaster", "The Beach", "Reconstructing Amy", "The Unfortunate" (novella), "Bomber's Moon"

• White, and Other Tales of Ruin (2002), collection of 3 short stories and 3 novellas:

  "White" (novella), "From Bad Flesh" (novella), "Hell", "The First Law" (novella), "The Origin of Truth", "Mannequin Man and the Plastic Bitch"

• Fears Unnamed (2004), collection of 4 novellas:

  "Remnants", "White", "Naming of Parts", "The Unfortunate"

• After the War: Two Tales of Noreela (2007), collection of 2 novellas of Tales of Noreela series:

  "Vale of Blood Roses", "The Bajuman"

• Last Exit for the Lost (2010), collection of 12 short stories and 7 novellas/novelettes:

  "Last Exit for the Lost", "The Cutting", "Pay the Ghost" (novelette), "Kissing at Shadows", "Hell Came Down", "Black" (novelette), "The Stuff of the Stars, Leaking", "Life Rained Off", "Skins", "The Horror of the Many Faces" (novelette), "Making Sense", "In Perpetuity" (novella), "Casting Longer Shadows", "A Ripple in the Veil", "Forever" (novelette), "Old Light", "Body", "The Evolutionary" (novelette), "Nothing Heavenly" (novella)

• Nothing as it Seems (2012), collection of 12 short stories and 3 novellas/novelettes:

  "Discovering Ghosts", "The God of Rain", "Bleeding Things", "Falling Off the World", "Making Room", "Chanting the Violet Dog Down", "Meat", "The Glass Road" (novelette), "In the Valley, Where Belladonna Grows" (novella), "The Flames Beneath the Light", "The Body Lies", "Slaughterhouse Blues", "Into The Trees", "Just Breathe", "The Reach of Children" (novella)

• Borrowed Time (2015), collection of 3 novellas of The Apocalypse trilogy:

  1. "Naming of Parts", 2. "Changing of Faces", 3. "Shifting of Veils"

Uncollected short stories:

Poems

• "A Meal Made Raw" (1998)

Novelizations

• 30 Days of Night, novelization of film 30 Days of Night (2007)
• The Cabin in the Woods, novelization of film The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
• Kong: Skull Island, novelization of film Kong: Skull Island (2017)

Adaptations

• Pay the Ghost (2015), film directed by Uli Edel, based on novelette "Pay the Ghost"
• The Silence (2019), film directed by John R. Leonetti, based on novel The Silence

References

External links

• Author website
• Tim Lebbon at IMDb
• Tim Lebbon at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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