He taught biology, chemistry, and geography in Belize and the Caribbean before taking a series of government jobs in Alaska.Īt age 17, Home had his first work published in a national magazine. He earned a BA in zoology in 1964 from the University of Minnesota and an MS in zoology in 1982 from the University of Alaska. Home was born in Windsor, Missouri, and grew up in a Protestant family of musicians and Bible scholars. While he has published little since the 1980s, Home is still writing and currently lives in the Dyea Valley, west of Skagway, Alaska. His range of styles and control of language and suspense is well-demonstrated in his published collection: Hollow Faces, Merciless Moons. Lovecraft, Home is considered by many to be a unique talent in his own right. Part of a circle of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror writers that paid homage to M. Best known for a short story that appeared in 1978 in The Year's Best Horror Stories (along with Stephen King's "Children of the Corn", which also made the cut that year), Home was most prolific during the 1970s and 80s when his poetry and fiction was published in a wide range of media. William Scott Home (born January 2, 1940) is the pen name (and, later, legal name) of an American author, poet and biologist principally known for writing horror and dark fantasy. Photo of horror writer William Scott Home, taken in Alaska.
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