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Lawrence C. Connolly’s work has been widely praised for its edgy originality. Thomas F. Monteleone, editor of the Borderlands series, calls Connolly “a fine writer of some of the most intensely textured psychological suspense we ever receive.” Robert Morrish, reviewing Borderlands 3 in Cemetery Dance Magazine, wrote Connolly’s fiction “deserves a place in the Paranoiac Horror Hall of Fame for its adept manipulation of the boundaries of reality and hallucination.” A reviewer in Publishers Weekly singled out one of Connolly’s Year’s Best Horror Stories as being “the realization of every child’s fears.” The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review praised Connolly as being the author of “one of the finest scare stories ever written.”
Lawrence C. Connolly’s first stories were published in Amazing Stories and Fantastic Stories. From there he moved on to sell fiction to Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Magazine, Year’s Best Horror Stories, and numerous other magazines and anthologies in the sf and fantasy field.
Over the years his stories have been reprinted in a variety of best-of and retrospective anthologies, such as Karl Edward Wagner’s Year’s Best Horror, Tom and Elizabeth Monteleone’s Best of Borderlands, and Audible.com’s Best of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Other stories have frequently been included in recommended-reading lists, including those in Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (St. Martin’s Press) and Best American Mystery Stories (Houghton Mifflin). Translations of Connolly’s work have appeared in over a dozen languages.
Three of Connolly’s stories have been optioned for film. One of those stories, “Echoes” (which has appeared in numerous publications in the US and abroad since its first appearance in Twilight Zone Magazine) has twice been adapted for the screen. The most recent adaptation, a short film directed by Rodney Altman, won best cinematography at the Fusion Film Festival in New York City. A feature length adaptation of Connolly’s “Traumatic Descent” has been optioned by David Slade, director of Hard Candy and 30 Days of Night.
Connolly’s latest stories and novelettes were published in Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy: Humorous Tales of Swords and Sorcery, Cemetery Dance Magazine, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, with the latter being first of a series of connected novelettes entitled Chronicles of Prime. His latest story “Die Angle” will be published in Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen (from PS Publishing).
Also a musician, Connolly is currently at work on a musical soundtrack for Veins. The full-length CD will be released by Fantasist Enterprises in the fall. One of the tracks for that CD provides the background score of the novel's promotional website: www.VeinsTheNovel.com.
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Interviews
“Writing in the Horror Genre” — Sigma 148.
“Spotlight on Horror Writers”
“On Fantasy and 'Lord of the Rings”
“Writing Discussions” |