Pen name Chris Curry Citizenship USA Occupation Writer Period 1991 - present | Language English Name Tamara Thorne Nationality United States Role Writer | |
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Books Candle Bay, Bad Things, Haunted, Moonfall, Eternity | ||
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Tamara Thorne (born August 1957 in Los Angeles, California), who also writes under the nom de plume Chris Curry, is a well-known, bestselling American horror writer. Her novel Winter Scream, co-authored with L. Dean James, was nominated for the 1991 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel.
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She has authored nearly 20 novels, including two novel series and multiple anthologies, as well as multiple stand-alone works. Her works tend to be set in the Los Angeles area, as she has lived in that area since she was born.
Biography
Tamara Thorne was born in August 1957 in Los Angeles, California. She published her first novel, Winter Scream, in February 1991 under her nom de plume Chris Curry. The book was coauthored with L. Dean James. Since then, Thorne has authored nearly 20 novels, both standalone and in series. She authored two other series under her own name: the Sorority in 2003, and The Ghosts of Ravencrest series, coauthored with Alistair Cross, in 2014 and 2015. Many of her books have become bestsellers, and she is well known in her chosen genre of horror.
Writing
According to the Los Angeles Times, Thorne's novels are set in, "made-up burgs" on the edge of Los Angeles, but Californians see the town in Bad Things as sounding a lot like Redlands, California, where Hollywood stars used to live. Moonfall closely resembles Oak Glen, and the "scary high desert retreat" in Thunder Road is drawn from Calico Ghost Town. Thorn responds that "My natural mind-set is bound to Los Angeles and the Inland Empire,...and in my books I like to use history and folklore from the real places."
Reception
Thorne was nominated for the 1991 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. The Horror Zine describes Thorne as being "a bestselling author between 1991 and 2002." The Los Angeles Times describes her as a "successful practitioner [of] terror."
British horror Graham Masterton writer named a character in his Forest Ghost novel after Thorne.