Short Fiction Collected by Alan Ryan (.ePUB)
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Short Fiction Collected (Jerry eBooks, 2026) by Alan Ryan
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Overview: Alan Peter Ryan was born on May 17, 1943 in Bronx, New York, and attended a Jesuit High School there, and graduated from Fordham University.
He taught English in a parochial school for a few years before turning his hand to writing. Working as a book reviewer for The New York Times, Ryan was first spurred into the horror genre when his successful short story “Sheets”, based on his own job at Macy’s as a sheets salesman, was reprinted in 1980’s Year’s Best Horror anthology. He was a nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer that year. Encouraged by Charles L. Grant as well as his friends Thomas Monteleone and Jill Bauman, Ryan wound up selling his first paperback original, Panther!, on proposal for $6000.
During the following years he published several more horror novels and short stories, but around 1990 he abandoned literature for about twenty years; working as a travel writer during this hiatus. He returned in 2011 with a new novel, Amazonas, which came out after his death of pancreatic cancer on June 3, 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he lived.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy > Horror
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