By sheer story quality alone, Weller makes a good damn argument." The book was noted by estemeed editor Ellen Datlow in her anthology, Best Horror 2021. Weller is arguing he’s Bradbury’s literary heir. Newcity said: "With this collection, Weller is making an argument that he’s more than Bradbury’s chronicler. In September 2020, Weller's collection of short stories, Dark Black, was published by Hat & Beard Press. Weller is a former associate professor in the Department of Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. His pop-cultural essays have appeared in Post Road, Huffington Post Annalemma, and PopMatters, among many other publications. Weller's short fiction has appeared in books, literary journals and magazines, including the Chicago Reader, Printers Row Journal, and Rosebud. He has written for The Paris Review, Playboy, All Things Considered, Slate Magazine, The Huffington Post, National Public Radio and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Weller is the former Midwest correspondent for Publishers Weekly magazine. The graphic novel compendium of this series was the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel in 2015. Also in 2014, IDW Comics released a five-issue Shadow Show comic book series curated and largely scripted by Weller and Mort Castle. The book also included several previously unpublished rough draft essays by Bradbury, dictated to Weller. In 2014, Weller edited Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview (Melville House), his final conversations with the writer. The anthology was also a Shirley Jackson Award nominee. With Mort Castle, Weller co-edited the anthology Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury, winner of the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology. The companion book, Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews, was published by Melville House/Stop Smiling Books in 2010 and was also a Bram Stoker Award finalist. His The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury was a Los Angeles Times best-seller, winner of the 2005 Society of Midland Authors Award for Best Biography, and a Bram Stoker Award finalist. Weller was born in Lake Forest, Illinois. Weller's 2014 Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (Melville House Publishing) features his last interview with Bradbury, and recounts Bradbury's influences, creative processes, and love for writing and reading. Weller’s 2010, Listen to the Echoes, The Ray Bradbury Interviews ( Melville House Publishing) is a collection of interviews, photos, mementos, and artifacts. Weller's 2005 book, The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury ( HarperCollins) is a full-biography and winner of the Society of Midland Author's Award in the "Biography" category. Sam Weller is an American journalist, and author of award-winning fiction and nonfiction, best known as writer Ray Bradbury's authorized biographer.
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