William Browning Spencer
William Browning Spencer is an American novelist and short story writer living in Austin, Texas. His science fiction and horror stories are often darkly and surrealistically humorous. His novel Résumé With Monsters blends soul-destroying H. P. Lovecraftian horrors with soul-destroying jobs, a mix that won the International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Novel in 1995. His first novel, "Maybe I'll Call Anna," was a National Endowment of the Arts New American Writing Award winner. His novels and short stories have been finalists for the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. His short stories have been anthologized numerous times, including twice in "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror" and twice in "The Year's Best Science Fiction."
Novels
- Maybe I'll Call Anna
- Résumé With Monsters
- Zod Wallop
- Irrational Fears
Short fiction
Collections
- The Return of Count Electric & Other Stories
- The Ocean and All Its Devices
- The Unorthodox Dr. Draper And Other Stories
List of short stories
| Title/First published | Notes |
| Bram Stoker Award finalist in Best Short Story category | |
| Locus Magazine Award finalist in Best Short Story category | |
| World Fantasy Award finalist in Best Short Story category |
| Title/First published | Notes |
| Shirley Jackson Award finalist in Novelette category | |
| Bram Stoker Award finalist in Long Fiction category, Shirley Jackson Award finalist in Novelette category | |
| Included in "2009 Rhysling Anthology: The Best SF, Fantasy & Horror Poetry of 2009" |
Anthologies containing stories by William Browning Spencer
- Just Open A Vein 1987
- Ghosttide 1993
- Borderlands 4 1994
- Christmas Magic 1994
- The Year's Best Science Fiction Eleventh Annual Collection 1994
- Wheel of Fortune 1995
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection 1995
- 100 Tiny Tales of Terror 1996
- The Big Bigfoot Book 1996
- Year's Best SF 1996
- Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of H P Lovecraft in Popular Culture 1998
- Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny 1998
- The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection 1999
- Subterranean Gallery 1999
- Witpunk 2003
- The Best of Borderlands 2005
- Dangerous Games 2007
- The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Twenty-First Annual Collection 2008
- Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 1 2008
- Lovecraft Unbound 2009
- The Best Horror of the Year Volume One 2009
- Black Wings: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror 2010
- Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2 2011
- New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird 2011
- The Weird 2011
- The Book of Cthulhu II 2012
- The Madness of Cthulhu: Stories Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft 2014
- Lovecraft's Monsters 2014
- The Best of Subterranean 2017