In 1977 Ganley published a collection of Home's short stories, Hollow Faces, Merciless Moons, illustrated by fantasy art legend Steven E. His 1977 Weirdbook story "Deadlier at Hearth than Hunt" was not only published several times in English, but also as an Italian translation (1995). In 1972, both his story "Dull Scavengers Wax Crafty" and an essay were published in Meade and Penny Frierson's epochal HPL, a tribute to H. Soon after his first publication in Weirdbook, other horror fiction-themed magazines began printing his stories as well. Home would publish repeatedly with Weirdbook and its editor/publisher W. While he had a number of mainstream poems printed in "little magazines" during high school years, it was not until the publication of his story, "The Fruits of Yebo's Sins", in Weirdbook in 1971 that he found his niche.
The fantasy piece, published in Sir! under the "True Stories" heading, centered on an imagined visit to a snake handler's ceremony. He taught biology, chemistry, and geography in Belize and the Caribbean before taking a series of government jobs in Alaska.Īt age 17, Home had his first work published in a national magazine. He earned a BA in zoology in 1964 from the University of Minnesota and an MS in zoology in 1982 from the University of Alaska.
Home was born in Windsor, Missouri, and grew up in a Protestant family of musicians and Bible scholars. While he has published little since the 1980s, Home is still writing and currently lives in the Dyea Valley, west of Skagway, Alaska. His range of styles and control of language and suspense is well-demonstrated in his published collection: Hollow Faces, Merciless Moons.
Lovecraft, Home is considered by many to be a unique talent in his own right. Part of a circle of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror writers that paid homage to M. Best known for a short story that appeared in 1978 in The Year's Best Horror Stories (along with Stephen King's "Children of the Corn", which also made the cut that year), Home was most prolific during the 1970s and 80s when his poetry and fiction was published in a wide range of media. William Scott Home (born January 2, 1940) is the pen name (and, later, legal name) of an American author, poet and biologist principally known for writing horror and dark fantasy. Photo of horror writer William Scott Home, taken in Alaska.
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