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James Lowder

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James Daniel Lowder (born January 2, 1963 in Quincy, Massachusetts) is an American author and editor, working frequently within the fantasy, dark fantasy, and horror genres, and on critical works exploring popular culture. [1]

70 relations: All Flesh Must Be Eaten, Amazing Stories, Arc Dream Publishing, Beast of Bray Road, BenBella Books, Boston, Bram Stoker Award, Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative, Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), Chaosium, City of Heroes, Clark Ashton Smith, Dark fantasy, Dark Sun, DAW Books, DC Comics, Del Rey Books, Desperado Publishing, Devil's Due Publishing, Dragon (magazine), Dungeons & Dragons, Eden Studios, Inc., Editor-in-chief, Elder Signs Press, ENnies, Fantasy, Film criticism, First Night, Forgotten Realms, Green Knight Publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, Guardians of Order, Hack/Slash, Hero Games, Horror fiction, Image Comics, International Horror Guild Award, King Arthur, Marquette University, Massachusetts, Michael Moorcock, Moonstone Books, Negative Burn, Novelist, Origins Award, Paizo Publishing, Pendragon (role-playing game), Polyhedron (magazine), Popular culture, Quincy, Massachusetts, ..., Random House, Ravenloft, Role-playing game, Shadis, Shadows Over Baker Street, Shared universe, Silver Age Sentinels, Superhero, The Avatar Series, The Book of All Flesh, TSR (company), University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Weird or What?, White Wolf Publishing, Whitman-Hanson Regional High School, Wizards of the Coast, Work for hire, WUWM, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Zombie. Expand index (20 more) »

All Flesh Must Be Eaten

All Flesh Must Be Eaten or AFMBE is a multiple Origins Award winning and nominated survival horror role-playing game (RPG) produced by Eden Studios, Inc. using the Unisystem game system.

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Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing.

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Arc Dream Publishing

Arc Dream Publishing is a small role-playing game publishing company founded in 2002 by Pagan Publishing veteran Dennis Detwiller and editor Shane Ivey after the release of their first roleplaying game Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946 was published by Hobgoblynn Press.

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Beast of Bray Road

The Beast of Bray Road (or the Bray Road Beast) is a creature reported in 1936 on a rural road outside of Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

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BenBella Books

BenBella Books is an independent publishing house based in Dallas, Texas.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Bram Stoker Award

The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented annually by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in dark fantasy and horror writing.

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Bram Stoker Award for Best Illustrated Narrative

Nominees are listed below the winner(s) for each year.

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Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)

Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos.

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Chaosium

Chaosium Inc. is one of the oldest publishers of role-playing games still in existence.

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City of Heroes

City of Heroes (CoH) was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCSOFT.

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Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories.

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Dark fantasy

Dark fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy literary, artistic, and cinematic works that incorporate darker and frightening themes of fantasy.

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Dark Sun

Dark Sun is an original Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting set in the fictional, post-apocalyptic desert world of Athas.

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DAW Books

DAW Books is an American science fiction and fantasy publisher, founded by Donald A. Wollheim following his departure from Ace Books in 1971.

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DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher.

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Del Rey Books

Del Rey Books is a branch of Ballantine Books, which is owned by Random House and, in turn, by Penguin Random House.

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Desperado Publishing

Desperado Publishing is an American independent comic book publisher, established in 2004.

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Devil's Due Publishing

Devil's Due Publishing (often abbreviated as DDP) is an independent comic book publisher in the United States.

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Dragon (magazine)

Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products; Dungeon is the other.

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Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&DMead, Malcomson; ''Dungeons & Dragons'' FAQ or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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Eden Studios, Inc.

Eden Studios, Inc. is an American role-playing game publisher founded in 1996 by George Vasilakos, M. Alexander Jurkat, and Ed Healy.

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Editor-in-chief

An editor-in-chief, also known as lead editor, chief editor, managing or executive editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.

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Elder Signs Press

Elder Signs Press, Inc (aka ESP) is a Michigan-based book publisher distributed through the Independent Publishers Group.

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ENnies

The Annual Gen Con EN World RPG Awards (or ENnie Awards) are annual, fan-based awards for role-playing game products and publishers hosted at Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Film criticism

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films and the film medium.

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First Night

First Night is a North American artistic and cultural celebration on New Year's Eve, taking place from afternoon until midnight.

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Forgotten Realms

Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game.

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Green Knight Publishing

Green Knight Publishing was founded by Peter Corless after he bought the rights to the award-winning Pendragon role-playing game from Chaosium in 1998.

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Green Ronin Publishing

Green Ronin Publishing is an American company based in Seattle, Washington.

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Guardians of Order

Guardians of Order was a Canadian company founded in 1996 by Mark C. MacKinnon in Guelph, Ontario.

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Hack/Slash

Hack/Slash is a comic book series, launched from several one shots of the same name, published by Image Comics (previously by Devil's Due Publishing).

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Hero Games

Hero Games (DOJ, Inc dba Hero Games) is the publisher of the Hero System, a generic roleplaying rules set that can be used to simulate many different genres, and was the co-developer of the Fuzion system.

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Horror fiction

Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.

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Image Comics

Image Comics is an American comic book publisher.

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International Horror Guild Award

The International Horror Guild Award (also known as the IHG Award) was an accolade recognizing excellence in the field of horror/dark fantasy, presented by the International Horror Guild (IHG) from 1995 to 2008.

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King Arthur

King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the late 5th and early 6th centuries.

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Marquette University

Marquette University is a private, coeducational Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the central United States.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Michael Moorcock

Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English writer and musician, primarily of science fiction and fantasy, who has also published literary novels.

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Moonstone Books

Moonstone Books is an American comic book, graphic novel, and prose fiction publisher based in Chicago focused on pulp fiction comic books and prose anthologies as well as horror and western tales.

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Negative Burn

Negative Burn is a black-and-white anthology comic book published beginning in 1993 by Caliber Press, and subsequently by Image Comics and Desperado Publishing.

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Novelist

A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction.

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Origins Award

The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry.

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Paizo Publishing

Paizo Publishing is an American publishing company in Redmond, Washington that specializes in game aids and adventures for "the world's oldest fantasy roleplaying game" (Dungeons & Dragons) and its flagship spin-off game and setting, Pathfinder.

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Pendragon (role-playing game)

Pendragon, or King Arthur Pendragon, is a role-playing game (RPG) in which players take the role of knights performing chivalric deeds in the tradition of Arthurian legend.

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Polyhedron (magazine)

Polyhedron (formerly Polyhedron Newszine) was a magazine targeting consumers of role-playing games, and originally the official publication of the RPGA (Role Playing Gamers Association).

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called pop culture) is generally recognized as a set of the practices, beliefs, and objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time.

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Quincy, Massachusetts

Quincy is the largest city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Random House

Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

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Ravenloft

Ravenloft is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.

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Role-playing game

A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game and abbreviated to RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.

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Shadis

Shadis was an independent gaming magazine that published articles on role-playing games.

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Shadows Over Baker Street

Shadows Over Baker Street is an anthology of stories, each by a different author and each concerning an exploit of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes set against the backdrop of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

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Shared universe

A shared universe or shared world is a set of creative works where more than one writer (or other artist) independently contributes a work that can stand alone but fits into the joint development of the storyline, characters, or world of the overall project.

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Silver Age Sentinels

Silver Age Sentinels is a superhero role-playing game (RPG) published in 2002 by Guardians of Order, creators of Big Eyes, Small Mouth, an anime-themed RPG.

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Superhero

A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero or Super) is a type of heroic stock character, usually possessing supernatural or superhuman powers, who is dedicated to fighting the evil of his/her universe, protecting the public, and usually battling supervillains.

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The Avatar Series

The Avatar Series, originally The Avatar Trilogy, is a series of Dungeons & Dragons fantasy novels in the Forgotten Realms setting, covering the event known as the Time of Troubles.

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The Book of All Flesh

The Book of All Flesh is the first of three Zombie anthologies James Lowder edited for Eden Studios as a tie-in to their gaming system All Flesh Must Be Eaten.

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TSR (company)

TSR, Inc. was an American game publishing company and the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D).

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University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (also known as UW–Milwaukee, UWM or Milwaukee) is a public urban research university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

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Weird or What?

Weird or What? is a series on the Discovery Channel and History (Canada) hosted by William Shatner (except for the U.S. Version of Season 1, where his segments were replaced by a fourth story).

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White Wolf Publishing

White Wolf Publishing is an American roleplaying game and book publisher.

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Whitman-Hanson Regional High School

Whitman-Hanson Regional High School is a public high school located in Whitman, Massachusetts.

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Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast LLC (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games.

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Work for hire

In the copyright law of the United States, a work made for hire (work for hire or WFH) is a work subject to copyright that is created by an employee as part of their job, or some limited types of works for which all parties agree in writing to the WFH designation.

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WUWM

WUWM (89.7 FM, "Milwaukee Public Radio") is the flagship National Public Radio station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Year's Best Fantasy and Horror

Year's Best Fantasy and Horror was a reprint anthology published annually by St. Martin's Press from 1987 to 2008.

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Zombie

A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, zonbi) is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lowder

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