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Lisa Morton

LISA MORTON has written over three dozen works of short fiction, a quartet of nonfiction books, and a number of largely forgettable movies and television series (with the exception of 1988's Meet the Hollowheads).

Her short stories have appeared in such books as Dark Delicacies, The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein, Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories About Bookstores, The Museum of Horrors, Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, Dark Terrors, Dark Voices 6, and After Shocks; most recent fiction appearances include the Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology Unspeakable Horror, issue #60 of Cemetery Dance Magazine, and the acclaimed anthology The Bleeding Edge. She won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 2006 (for "Tested", which appeared in Cemetery Dance #55), and received a second Stoker Award for A Hallowe'en Anthology: Literary and Historical Writings Over the Centuries.

The Lucid Dreaming, her first novella (published by Bad Moon Books), was recently nominated for the Stoker Award for Long Fiction, and her first novel, The Castle of Los Angeles, has just been released by Gray Friar Press.

She's never lived outside of California, and can be found online at www.lisamorton.com.

From Midnight Walk's reviews:
"The other highlight of the anthology is provided by Editor Lisa Morton, whose exciting Diana And The Goong-Si is an excellent pulp fiction piece with an exotic taste, set in the 19th century China, featuring an English woman trying to rescue her missing husband by defeating a local vampire monster. Hopefully we'll read more of the intrepid Diana in some future story by the same author."
Bookgeeks
...captures the exotic dark magic of China...strange and beguiling..."
Creature Feature Tomb of Horror
"...a great piece based in Chinese mythology..."
Dark Discoveries
""Diana and the Goong-Si" by Lisa Morton is an exquisitely detailed story of a British noblewoman who travels to China in 1880 in search of her missing husband. Morton crafts a mesmerizing cross-genre tale that blends ancient Chinese culture with the undead and vampirism within an authentic historical context of the late 19th-century opium-for-tea trading industry between Britain and China. Infused with great humanity, "Diana and the Goong-Si" possesses the delicate period sensibilities of The Painted Veil and the hair-raising psychic vampirism elements of One Dark Night...Morton's own offering is a treasure..."
Dark Scribe Magazine
"Diana and the Goong-Si, my favorite of the book, (as everyone who knows me can tell you, vampires in all their guises are my favorite) is a tale of a woman traveling a great distance at great risk and peril to try and find her missing husband. She arrives in a strange world and finds herself engaged in a battle with a local legend, a vampiric creature that is intent on fulfilling its unholy thirst for blood, but not in the way you think. This is a great take on the vampire mythos that is fresh, scary and very well written."
Famous Monsters of Filmland
"I loved the strong female character in this story, as well as the location and time in which the story was set. The Goong-Si is also a very different type of vampire than the creatures from our Western world, making it an even more exciting read."
Fatally Yours
"Lisa Morton's "Diana and the Goong-Si" centers around a British woman who is trying to find her missing husband, and the rumored creature who may have killed him. Set in 19th century Britain and China, the tale weaves history with horror, and will leave you with a smile on your face by the time it's all over. Also, the story leaves itself open to a sequel, one I'm hoping we'll see sometime down the road (if it isn't out there already)."
Horror Drive-In
"Even the editor, Lisa Morton, gives the reader a taste of her own twisted sensibilities in "Diana and the Goong-Si." "
Horror World
"..."Diana and the Goong-si", about a widowed foreigner battling vampires on a 19th-century Chinese shore...works to round out the anthology and further cement the collection's diversity mandate."
Rue Morgue #93