About the Author

Lawrence C. Connolly’s story collections Visions, This Way to Egress, and Voices feature his stories from Amazing Stories, Cemetery Dance, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Twilight Zone, Year’s Best Horror, and other top magazines and anthologies of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

Voices was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award.

His novels include the eco-thrillers Veins, Vipers, Vortex, and the forthcoming science-fiction adventure Execute & Run, to be released in late 2025 by Caezik Science Fiction & Fantasy, the science fiction imprint of Arc Manor Books.

His screenplay “This Way to Egress,” co-authored with director David Slade (executive producer of Hannibal and American Gods) and based on Connolly’s original story “Traumatic Descent” (first published in Borderlands 3) is featured in the anthology film Nightmare Cinema.

He is also the writer of Mystery Theatre, a podcast produced by Prime Stage Theatre, who also premiered Connolly’s adaptation of Frankenstein at Pittsburgh’s New Hazlett Theatre in November 2022.

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.