William Browning Spencer

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William Browning Spencer (born 1946)^[1] is an American novelist and short story writer living in Austin, Texas. His science fiction and horror stories are often darkly and surrealistically humorous.

His novel Résumé With Monsters won the International Horror Critics Guild Award for Best Novel in 1995.^[2] His first novel, Maybe I'll Call Anna, was a National Endowment of the Arts New American Writing Award winner. His novels and short stories have been finalists for the Bram Stoker Award,^[3][4] the World Fantasy Award,^[5] and the Shirley Jackson Award.^[6] His short stories have been anthologized numerous times, including twice in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and twice in The Year's Best Science Fiction. In 1995, he was Toastmaster of ArmadilloCon 21 in Austin, TX.^[7]

• Maybe I'll Call Anna, Permanent Press (1990)
• Résumé With Monsters, Permanent Press (1995). Reprint: Dover Publications (2014)
• Zod Wallop. St. Martin's Press (1995). Reprint: White Wolf Publishing (1996)
• Irrational Fears, White Wolf Publishing (1998)

• The Return of Count Electric & Other Stories, Permanent Press (1993)
• The Ocean and All Its Devices, Subterranean Press (2006)
• The Unorthodox Dr. Draper And Other Stories, Subterranean Press (2017)

• Book group recount of an evening with William Browning Spencer
• Interview from 1999 at "Crescent Blues"
• Fantastic Fiction summary for William Browning Spencer
• Publishers Weekly review of Maybe I'll Call Anna [1]
• Publishers Weekly review of The Return of Count Electric & Other Stories [2]
• Washington Post review of Irrational Fears [3]
• Publishers Weekly review of Irrational Fears [4]
• Kirkus review of Zod Wallop [5]
• New York Times Review of Zod Wallop
• SF Site review of The Ocean and All Its Devices [6]
• Publishers Weekly review of The Ocean and All Its Devices [7]
• Publishers Weekly review of The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories [8]
• Kirkus review of The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories [9]
• Locus Magazine review of The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories [10]
• William Browning Spencer Internet Speculative Fiction Database [11]