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[[File:Tim Waggoner head shot against bookcase.jpg|right|thumb|Waggoner in 2019]]

'''Tim Waggoner''' is the [[author]] of numerous novels and short stories in the [[Fantasy]], [[horror fiction|Horror]], and [[Thriller (genre)|Thriller]] genres.

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==Education==
Waggoner graduated from [[Wright State University]] in 1989 with a [[Master of Arts]] in English<ref>Thrasher, Don (April 25, 2004). "An exciting new chapter: Area novelist to have a number of his works published in 2004", ''[[Dayton Daily News]]'', p. F3.</ref> with a [[Creative Writing]] Concentration.{{Citation needed|date=June 2013}}

He holds BS ed. and MA degrees from [[Wright State University]].<ref name="wizardsbio"/>

==Career==
Waggoner has written and published novels for both adult and young readers, including ''[[Temple of the Dragonslayer]]'' and ''[[Return of the Sorceress]]'' (both for [[Wizards of the Coast]]), ''Dark Ages: Gangrel'' and ''Exalted: A Shadow Over Heaven's Eye'' (both White Wolf), ''Nekropolis'' (Five Star), and ''Defender: Hyperswarm'' (I-Books).<ref name="wizardsbio"/> He is also the author of the short story collection ''All Too Surreal'' (Prime Books).<ref name="wizardsbio"/> He has published numerous short stories in the fantasy and horror genres, and his articles on writing have appeared in ''[[Writer's Digest]]'', ''Writers' Journal'', ''New Writer's Magazine'', ''Ohio Writer'', ''[[Speculations (magazine)|Speculations]]'', and ''Teaching English in the Two-Year College''.<ref name="wizardsbio">{{cite web|url=http://ww2.wizards.com/Books/Wizards/Bios/default.aspx?doc=TimWaggoner|title=Tim Waggoner|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624123824/http://ww2.wizards.com/Books/Wizards/Bios/default.aspx?doc=TimWaggoner|archivedate=June 24, 2009}}</ref> He has also written the ''Nekropolis'' series of urban fantasies and the ''Ghost Trackers'' series written in collaboration with Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson of the ''Ghost Hunters'' television show. His books for writers include ''The Art of Writing Genre Fiction'', written in collaboration with Michael Knost, and ''Writing in the Dark,'' a guide to writing horror and dark fantasy fiction.

A number of his stories have received honorable mentions in various editions of the [[Year's Best Fantasy and Horror]].<ref name="wizardsbio"/> He won first place in the 1998 Authorlink! New Author Awards Competition and was a finalist for the [[Darrell Awards|Darrell Award]] for Best MidSouth Short Story in 1999.<ref name="wizardsbio"/> His novella ''The Men Upstairs'' was nominated for the 2011 [[Shirley Jackson Award]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2011-shirley-jackson-awards-winners/|title=The Shirley Jackson Awards » 2011 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners|website=Shirleyjacksonawards.org|accessdate=5 January 2018}}</ref> and his short story "How to be a Horror Writer" was nominated for the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} His novella ''The Winter Box'' won the 2016 [[Bram Stoker Award]] for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://horror.org/bram-stoker-award-winners-announced/|title=Bram Stoker Award® Winners Announced - Horror Writers Association BlogHorror Writers Association Blog|website=Horror.org|accessdate=5 January 2018}}</ref> His how-to-write-horror book ''Writing in the Dark'' won the 2020 [[Bram Stoker Award]] for Superior Achievement in Nonfiction, and his article "Speaking of Horror" won the 2020 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Nonfiction.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Templeton |first1=Molly |title=Announcing the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards Winners |url=https://www.tor.com/2021/06/01/announcing-the-2020-bram-stoker-awards-winners/ |website=Tor.com |access-date=1 June 2021 |date=2021-06-01}}</ref>

==Teaching==
He serves as a professor of English and teaches composition and creative writing at [[Sinclair Community College]] in [[Dayton, Ohio]].<ref name="wizardsbio"/><ref name=Short>{{cite news|author=Short, Sharon|date=March 24, 2013|title=Local author Waggoner: Writing was in his script|newspaper=Dayton Daily News|page=D4}}</ref> Waggoner also taught creative writing for many years at [[Seton Hill University]], [[Pennsylvania]], in an innovative [[low-residency program|low-residency]] [[Master of Fine Arts]] degree program in Writing Popular Fiction.

==Personal life==
[[File:Tim Waggoner at lake.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Waggoner in 2018]]
Waggoner grew up in the [[Dayton, Ohio]], area.<ref name=Short /> In addition to writing fiction, Waggoner has worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, and copy editor.<ref name="wizardsbio"/> He has two daughters from a previous marriage.<ref name="wizardsbio"/>

==Bibliography==

===Novels===
*''Dying for It'' (2001)
*''The Harmony Society'' (2003)
*''Gangrel (Dark Ages Vampire)'' (2004)
*''Nekropolis'' (2004)
*''Defender: Hyperswarm'' (2004)
*''Like Death'' (2005)
*''Exalted 5: A Shadow Over Heaven's Eye'' (2005)
*''A Nightmare on Elm Street: Protege'' (2005)
*''Pandora Drive'' (2006)
*''Darkness Wakes'' (2006)
*''Cross County'' (2008)
*''Last of the Lycans'' (2010)
*''Beneath the Bones'' (2012)
*''The Way of All Flesh'' (2014)<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Spooky Six with Willow Croft and Tim Waggoner - The Horror Tree |url=https://horrortree.com/the-spooky-six-with-willow-croft-and-tim-waggoner/ |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=horrortree.com}}</ref>
*''Grimm: The Killing Time'' (2014)
*''Eat the Night'' (2016)
*''xXx: the Return of Xander Cage'' (2017)
*''Resident Evil: the Final Chapter'' (2017) novelization of the [[Resident Evil: The Final Chapter|film of the same name]]
*''Kingsman: the Golden Circle'' (2017) novelization of the [[Kingsman: The Golden Circle|film of the same name]]
*''Teeth of the Sea'' (2017)
*''The Mouth of the Dark'' (2018)
*''Blood Island'' (2019)
*''They Kill'' (2019)
*''Alien: Prototype'' (2019)
*''The Forever House'' (2020)
*''Your Turn to Suffer'' (2021)
*''Halloween Kills'' (2021), novelization of [[Halloween Kills|the slasher film]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Waggoner |first1=Tim |title=Halloween Kills : the official movie novelization. |date=October 19, 2021 |publisher=[[Titan Books]] |isbn=978-1789096019}}</ref>
*''Planet Havoc'' (2022)
*''We Will Rise'' (2022)

===Series===
[[File:Tim Waggoner arm on tree.jpg|right|thumb|Waggoner in 2019]]

====The Blade of the Flame====
*''Thieves of Blood'' (2006)
*''Forge of the Mind Slayers'' (2007)
*''Sea of Death'' (2008)

====Dragonlance: the New Adventures====
*''[[Temple of the Dragonslayer]]'' (2004)
*''[[Return of the Sorceress]]'' (2004)

====Ghost Trackers====
*''Ghost Trackers'' with Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson (2011)
*''Ghost Town'' with Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson (2012)

====Godfire====
*''Orchard of Dreams'' (2006)
*''Heart's Wound'' (2006)

====Lady Ruin====
*''Lady Ruin'' (2010)

====Nekropolis====
*''Nekropolis'' (2009)
*''Dead Streets'' (2010)
*''Dark War'' (2011)
*''The Nekropolis Archives'' (2012) (Omnibus edition of above novels and the short stories "Disarmed and Dangerous," "The Midnight Watch," and "Zombie Interrupted")

====Shadow Watch====
*''Night Terrors'' (2014)
*''Dream Stalkers'' (2014)

====Stargate====
*''Stargate SG-1: Valhalla'' (2009)

====Supernatural====
*''Supernatural: Carved in Flesh'' (2013)
*''Supernatural: The Roads Not Taken'' (2013)
*''Supernatural: Mythmaker'' (2016)
*''The Men of Letters Bestiary: Winchester Family Edition'' (2017)
*''Supernatural: Children of Anubis'' (2019)

===Books on Writing===
*''The Art of Writing Genre Fiction'' Written with Michael Knost (2018)
*''Writing in the Dark'' (2020)
*''Writing in the Dark: The Workbook'' (2022)

===Collections===
*''All Too Surreal'' (2002)
*''Broken Shadows'' (2009)
*''Bone Whispers'' (2013)
*''Cemetery Dance Select: Tim Waggoner'' (2017)
*''Dark And Distant Voices'' (2017)
*''Love, Death, and Madness'' (2018)
*''A Little Aqua Book of Marine Tales'' (2019)

===Short fiction===
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====A====
*"Across Silent Seas"
*"Alacrity's Spectatorium"
*"All Fall Down"
*"All in the Execution"
*"Along for the Ride"
*"Anubis Has Left the Building"
*"As Good As a Rest"
*"At the Movies"

====B====
*"Best Friends Forever"
*"The Big Moment"
*"The Blade of the Flame"
*"Blackwater Dreams"
*"Blame It on the Moonlight"
*"Bone Whispers"
*"Breathtaking"
*"Broken Glass and Gasoline"
*"Brothers in Arms"
*"Buried Treasure"
*"Buyer Beware"

====C====
*"The Castle and Jack"
*"Catharsis"
*"Collect and Save"
*"Conversations Kill"
*"Country Roads"

====D====
*"Daddy"
*"Darker Than Winter"
*"Debut"
*"Disarmed and Dangerous"
*"Do No Harm"

====E====
*"Every Home Should Have One"
*"Exits and Entrances"
*"Extern"

====F====
*"The Faces That You Meet"
*"Fixer-Upper"
*"Foundling"

====G====
*"Ghost in the Graveyard"
*"Grandpa Kelly and the Dragon"
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====H====
*"Hair of the..."
*"Harvest Time"
*"Home Security"
*"Homebody"
*"Horror Show"
*"The Hungry Man"
*"Huntress"
*"Hunt's End"

====I====
*"I Scream, You Scream"

====J====
*"Joyless Forms"
*"Just a Simple Country Doctor"

====K====
*"Keeping It Together"
*"Knock, Knock"

====L====
*"The Last Warrior"
*"Lastjack"
*"Long Way Home"
*"Loose Upon the Earth a Daemon"

====M====
*"The Man of Her Dreams"
*"Mary Alice"
*"Meeting Dad"
*"The Men Upstairs"
*"Met a Pilgrim Shadow"
*"Mibs"
*"Mirroring"
*"Mr. Punch"

====N====
*"Negative Space"
*"Newcomer"
*"Night Eyes"
*"No More Shadows"

====O====
*"Old Times' Sake"
*"On the Shelf and Dreaming"
*"On the Skids in Another Dimension"
*"One Morning at the Stone"
*"Open House"
*"The Other Woman"
*"Outside the Lines"
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====P====
*"Picking Up Courtney"
*"Portrait of a Horror Writer"
*"Preserver"
*"Provider"


====R====
*"The Right Thing"
*"Rude Awakenings"

====S====
*"The Secret of Bees"
*"Seeker"
*"The September People"
*"Shadow Play"
*"Shoofly"
*"Simulacrum"
*"Skeptic"
*"Skull Cathedral"
*"Sleepless Eyes"
*"Soaring"
*"Some Dark Hope"
*"The Stars Look Down"
*"A Strange and Savage Garden"
*"Supernaturally Incorrect"
*"Swimming Lessons"

====T====
*"Talia"
*"Till Voices Drown Us"
*"To Embrace the Serpent"
*"The Grabber Man"
*"The Tongue is the Sweetest Meat"

====U====
*"Unwoven"


====W====
*"Waters Dark and Deep"
*"Weapon of Flesh and Bone" (In collaboration with [[Russell Davis (writer)|R. Davis]].)
*"When God Opens a Door"
*"A Wild Hair"


====Z====
*"Zombie Interrupted"
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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.timwaggoner.com Tim Waggoner's Official Website]
*[http://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/ Tim Waggoner's Official Blog]
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*{{cite web|url=http://www.pen-paper.net:80/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=4930|archive-date=February 28, 2005|title=Tim Waggoner :: Pen & Paper RPG Database|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050228213706/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=4930|df=}}

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