Bradley Clayton Denton (born 1958) is an Americanscience fiction author. He has also written other types of fiction, such as theblack comedy of his novelBlackburn, about a sympatheticserial killer.

He was born inTowanda, Kansas, and attended theUniversity of Kansas atLawrence and graduated with degrees inastronomy (B.A.) and English (M.A.). His first published work was the short story "The Music of the Spheres", published inThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in March 1984. His collectionThe Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist won the 1995World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.^[1]

He and his wife Barbara moved from Kansas toAustin, Texas in 1988.

• Sergeant Chip & Other Novellas (collection, 2014)
• Laughin' Boy (novel, 2005)
• One Day Closer to Death: Eight Stabs at Immortality (collection, 1998); all but one of the stories in here appeared in eitherThe Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians orA Conflagration Artist
• Lunatics (novel, 1996)
• Blackburn (novel, 1993, was nominated for the 1993Bram Stoker Award)
• The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians (collection, 1993, won the 1995World Fantasy Award for Best Collection)
• A Conflagration Artist (collection, 1993, won the 1995World Fantasy Award for Best Collection)
• Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede (novel, 1991, won theJohn W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel for 1992)
• Wrack & Roll (novel, 1986, a nominee for theJohn W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel)

• "Blood Moccasins" (2013,Impossible Monsters, edited byKasey Lansdale,Subterranean Press)
• “The Adakian Eagle” (2011,Down These Strange Streets, edited byGeorge R. R. Martin andGardner Dozois,Edgar Award nominee)
• "Blackburn and the Blade" (2006,Joe R. Lansdale's Lords of the Razor, edited by Bill Sheehan and William Schafer, Subterranean Press; 2007International Horror Guild Award nominee)^[2]
• "Sergeant Chip" (September 2004,The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, 2005Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner)
• "Timmy and Tommy's Thanksgiving Secret" (2003, in the collectionWitpunk)
• "Bloody Bunnies" (April 2000,The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "We Love Lydia Love" (November 1994,The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "The Territory" (July 1992The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, a 1993 nominee for both theHugo Award for Best Novella andNebula Award for Best Novella)
• "The Sin-Eater of the Kaw" (June 1989,The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians" (June 1988,The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "In the Fullness of Time" (May 1986,The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "The Summer We Saw Diana" (August 1985,The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "Top of the Charts" (March 1985,The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
• "The Music of the Spheres" (March 1984,The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)

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• Bradley Denton Website^{[dead link]}
• One Day Closer to Death: A Cheery Chat with Bradley Denton
• Down the Dark Highway: Bradley Denton Talks about Blackburn
• Sex, Serial Killers, and Pathetic Old Wanker Music: An Interview With Bradley Denton
• Bradley Denton at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database
• Bradley Denton SF Encyclopedia entry

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