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ELIZABETH MASSIE
Elizabeth Jane Spilman Massie was born and raised in Waynesboro, Virginia, a town in the
beautiful Shenandoah Valley. She was a dreadful student; she rarely paid attention in class
and frequently got bad marks on her report card for not "working to her potential." Little did the
teachers know that the daydreaming, the goofy drawings, and the angst-ridden stories she was
doing in class instead of the assigned science/social studies/math, would some day have some
relevance.
Her first horror short story, "Whittler," was published in The Horror Show in the winter 1984
edition. Many other story sales followed. Beth’s novella, Stephen (Borderlands) was awarded
the Bram Stoker Award and was a World Fantasy award finalist.
Elizabeth added horror novels to her repertoire in the early 1990’s, and has since published the
Bram Stoker-winning Sineater, Welcome Back to the Night, Wire Mesh Mothers, Dark Shadows:
Dreams of the Dark (co-authored with Stephen Mark Rainey), Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Power
of Persuasion, and Twisted Branch (as Chris Blaine). She has also had four story collections
published: Southern Discomfort, Shadow Dreams, the extensive The Fear Report, and A Little
Magenta Book of Mean Stories. Her bizarre poetry is included in the early 2004 anthology
Devil’s Wine. She also branched out with her fiction and began to write historical novels for
young adults and middle grade readers. Her works include the Young Founders series, the
Daughters of Liberty trilogy, and The Great Chicago Fire: 1871.
Elizabeth still lives in the country in the Shenandoah Valley, a mere four miles from where she
was born. Her advice to one and all, "The answer, alas, is blowin’ out your ass, the answer is
blowin’ out your ass..."
