Scott Nicolay
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Born | (1963-04-16) April 16, 1963 (age 61) United States |
Occupation | Author, translator, poet |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Rutgers University |
Genre | Weird fiction, Horror fiction |
Notable works | Ana Kai Tangata "Do You Like to Look at Monsters?" |
Notable awards | 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story |
Website | |
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Scott Nicolay (born April 16, 1963) is an American author of weird fiction. Nicolay's "Do You Like to Look At Monsters?" received the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story in 2015.[1] He resides on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. Nicolay hosts The Outer Dark, a weekly podcast about weird fiction.
Biography
Nicolay was born in New Jersey and studied at Rutgers University.
At the age of 26, he moved to the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, where he later taught school. Nicolay is a poetry enthusiast and has translated poetry and fiction from French. He has been active in youth poetry slam movements.
Nicolay spent time as an active caver and archaeologist. He used the name Ana Kai Tangata, a cave he had studied on Easter Island, for the title of his first book of collected short fiction. The cave's name is associated with cannibalism in the Rapa Nui language.
Selected bibliography
- Ana Kai Tangata (2014), collected short fiction.
- "Do You Like to Look at Monsters?" (2015), short story, recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story.
- After (2015), novella.
References
- ^ 2015 World Fantasy Award and Life Achievement Winners.
External links
- Official website
- Biography
- Bibliography
- The Outer Dark podcast
Preceded by | World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction winner 2015 | Succeeded by Alyssa Wong |
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- "Pages from a Young Girl's Journal" by Robert Aickman (1975)
- "Belsen Express" by Fritz Leiber (1976)
- "There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding" by Russell Kirk (1977)
- "The Chimney" by Ramsey Campbell (1978)
- "Naples" by Avram Davidson (1979)
- "Mackintosh Willy" by Ramsey Campbell (1980, tie)
- "The Woman Who Loved the Moon" by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1980, tie)
- "The Ugly Chickens" by Howard Waldrop (1981)
- "The Dark Country" by Dennis Etchison (1982, tie)
- "Do the Dead Sing?" by Stephen King (1982, tie)
- "The Gorgon" by Tanith Lee (1983)
- "Elle Est Trois, (La Mort)" by Tanith Lee (1984)
- "The Bones Wizard" by Alan Ryan (1985, tie)
- "Still Life with Scorpion" by Scott Baker (1985, tie)
- "Paper Dragons" by James Blaylock (1986)
- "Red Light" by David J. Schow (1987)
- "Friend's Best Man" by Jonathan Carroll (1988)
- "Winter Solstice, Camelot Station" by John M. Ford (1989)
- "The Illusionist" by Steven Millhauser (1990)
- "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess (1991)
- "The Somewhere Doors" by Fred Chappell (1992)
- "Graves" by Joe Haldeman (1993, tie)
- "This Year's Class Picture" by Dan Simmons (1993, tie)
- "The Lodger" by Fred Chappell (1994)
- "The Man in the Black Suit" by Stephen King (1995)
- "The Grass Princess" by Gwyneth Jones (1996)
- "Thirteen Phantasms" by James Blaylock (1997)
- "Dust Motes" by P. D. Cacek (1998)
- "The Specialist's Hat" by Kelly Link (1999)
- "The Chop Girl" by Ian R. MacLeod (2000)
- "The Pottawatomie Giant" by Andy Duncan (2001)
- "Queen for a Day" by Albert E. Cowdrey (2002)
- "Creation" by Jeffrey Ford (2003)
- "Don Ysidro" by Bruce Holland Rogers (2004)
- "Singing My Sister Down" by Margo Lanagan (2005)
- "CommComm" by George Saunders (2006)
- "Journey Into the Kingdom" by M. Rickert (2007)
- "Singing of Mount Abora" by Theodora Goss (2008)
- "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" by Kij Johnson (2009)
- "The Pelican Bar" by Karen Joy Fowler (2010)
- "Fossil-Figures" by Joyce Carol Oates (2011)
- "The Paper Menagerie" by Ken Liu (2012)
- "The Telling" by Gregory Norman Bossert (2013)
- "The Prayer of Ninety Cats" by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2014)
- "Do You Like to Look at Monsters?" by Scott Nicolay (2015)
- "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong (2016)
- "Das Steingeschöpf" by G. V. Anderson (2017)
- "The Birding: A Fairy Tale" by Natalia Theodoridou (2018)
- "Like a River Loves the Sky" by Emma Törzs / "Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake" by Mel Kassel (2019)
- "Read After Burning" by Maria Dahvana Headley (2020)
- "Glass Bottle Dancer" by Celeste Rita Baker (2021)
- "(emet)" by Lauren Ring (2022)