A. A. Attanasio

Alfred Angelo Attanasio, born on September 20, 1951, in Newark, New Jersey, is an author of fantasy and science fiction. His Lovecraftian short story "The Star Pools" (1980) was included in the anthology New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. 
Attanasio has written a handful of Lovecraftian stories; his second published work, "The Elder Sign," appeared in the 1972 tribute collection HPL.Internet Speculative Fiction Database, "Publication: HPL." Other stories with a Lovecraft connection include "Glimpses" (1975), "A Priestess of Nodens" (1995), and "Time in the Hourless House" (2003); together with "The Star Pools," these were rewritten into a unified narrative called "Thirteen Raptures of the Black Goat," which appeared in his 2006 collection Twice Dead Things.Camelot Books, "Twice Dead Things." 
His first novel, published in 1981, was in the science fiction genre; Radix won the Prix Cosmos 2000, a French literary award, and was also nominated as best novel for the 1981 Nebula Awards. He produced three more novels in the Radix Tetrad, In Other Worlds, Arc of the Dream, and The Last Legends of Earth. 
He has written novels in multiple genres, including historical fiction (Wyvern and Kingdom of the Grail: Servant of Birds), Arthurian epics (The Perilous Order), paranormal romance (The Moon’s Wife), a Paleolithic saga (Hunting the Ghost Dancer), crime drama (Silent), science fiction (Solis, Centuries), Wiccan adventure (Killing with the Edge of the Moon), and Young Adult (The Conjure Book). 
Attanasio wrote the Dominions of Irth fantasy trilogy under the pseudonym Adam Lee, and the children's fantasy The Moon's Prophecy as Jonathan Sparrow.
His short fiction has been published in three collections: Beastmarks (1985), Twice Dead Things (2006), and Demons Hide Their Faces (2020). 
==External Link==
A. A. Attanasio at Internet Speculative Fiction Database
==References==
Category:Expanded Mythos Authors