About the Author

Lawrence C. Connolly’s books include the collections This Way to Egress, whose titular tale of psychological horror was adapted for the Mick Garris film Nightmare Cinema; and the Bram-Stoker-nominated Voices, which features Connolly’s best stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Twilight Zone, Year’s Best Horror, and other top magazines and anthologies of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. A third collection, Visions, was praised by Publishers Weekly for featuring an eclectic mix of “entertaining and satisfying” SF.

His novels include the eco-thrillers Veins, Vipers, and Vortex. World Fantasy Award winner T. E. D. Klein called Veins “a crime thriller as intense and fast-moving as a Tarantino movie.”

This fall, Caezik Science Fiction will release his new novel Minute-Men: Execute & Run, a globetrotting adventure that combines elements of military science fiction, gaming, and medical suspense in a thrilling reinvention of the superhero genre.

He is currently collaborating with his brother Christopher Connolly, Academy-Award winning producer Jonathan Sanger, and Mr. Sanger’s producing partner M. Jones to develop a feature film based on Minute Men: Execute & Run.

He is also the writer of Mystery Theatre, a podcast produced by Prime Stage Theatre, who premiered his adaptation of Frankenstein in 2022. His newset commission, a play based on the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, opens in November 2025 at Pittsburgh’s New Hazelett Theatre.

Print Interviews

Sci-fi author Lawrence C. Connolly is ready to take on AI
An article from Next Pittsburgh, July 2024.

Film Daddy: A Chat with Lawrence C. Connolly
An interview conducted at Grimmfest, in advance of the U.K. Premiere of Nightmare Cinema, in Manchester October 6, 2018. 

The Long Game: On Adapting “This Way to Egress”:
Interview by Christina Sheledeha for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Pontifications of Maurice Broaddus:
Interview with Lawrence C. Connolly.

“Dark Arts and Crafts” by Matt Betts:
Interview with Lawrence C. Connolly (page 8-9).

“Scare Tactics” by Dawn Stanton:
Interviews with Lawrence C. Connolly,
John Alfred Taylor, and Michael A. Arnzen.

“Tolkein Points” by Ken Chiacchia:
Interviews with Lawrence C. Connolly
and Mary Soon Lee.

“On Writing Horror” by Ann Cecil:
Transcript of a panel discussion with
Lawrence C. Connolly, Lee Howard, Robert Martin, and Dawn Martin.


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