Exclusive Interview with Multiple Award-Winning Author Mort Castle

A former stage hypnotist, folksinger, and high school teacher, Mort Castle has been a published writer since 1967, with hundreds of stories, articles, comics and books published in a dozen languages. Castle has won three Bram Stoker Awards®, two Black Quill awards, the Golden Bot (Wired Magazine), and has been nominated for The Audie, The Shirley Jackson award, the International Horror Guild award and the Pushcart Prize. In 2000, the Chicago Sun-Times News Group cited him as one of "Twenty-One Leaders in the Arts in Chicago's Southland." Castle edited the contemporary classic reference work On Writing Horror and with Sam Weller, edited both the prose anthology and the graphic novel compilation, Shadow Show: Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury. His novels include The Strangers and Cursed Be the Child, and the story collections Moon on the Water, Nations of the Living, Nations of the Dead, and New Moon on the Water. His latest fiction compilation is entitled Knowing When to Die, which was a semi-finalist in the 2016 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest. In a special Halloween issue scheduled for October of this year, Poland's Playboy Magazine will re-introduce fiction to its pages with Castle's story "Light," published in this collection. Castle and his wife, Jane, have been married forty-seven years and live in Crete, Illinois.