Mort Castle

Mort Castle is an American author of horror fiction, and has more 17 books and 500 short stories to his credit, including Cursed Be the Child and The Strangers (1984). Castle began publishing short stories in 1967, with his debut novel The Deadly Election (1976). He has had pieces published in all sorts of places ranging from traditional literary magazines to more off-the-wall or risqué markets. He has been nominated eleven times for the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction and was winner three times.