Ardath Frances Hurst Mayhar was an American writer and poet. She began writing science fiction in 1979 after returning with her family to Texas from Oregon. She was nominated for the Mark Twain Award, and won the Balrog Award for a horror narrative poem in Masques I.
She had numerous other nominations for awards in almost every fiction genre, and won many awards for poetry. In 2008 she was honored by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America as an Author Emeritus.
Mayhar wrote over 60 books ranging from science fiction to horror to young adult to historical to westerns; with some work under the pseudonyms Frank Cannon, Frances Hurst, John Killdeer, Ardath P. Mayhar. Joe R. Lansdale wrote simply: "Ardath Mayhar writes damn fine books!"
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Dan Simmons & Thomas M. Disch & Robert Silverberg & Stephen King & Peter Straub & Ramsey Campbell & Ron Goulart & William Hope Hodgson & George Clayton Johnson & Joe R. Lansdale & Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu & Robert Sheckley & Robert Crais & Frank Belknap Long & Ardath Mayhar & Felice Picano & Cezarija Abartis & Chet Williamson & Chris Massie & Robert H. Curtis
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Stephen King & Ramsey Campbell & Richard Matheson & Robert Bloch & William F. Nolan & Joe R. Lansdale & James Herbert & Douglas E. Winter & Thomas F. Monteleone & Ray Russell & Steve Rasnic Tem & Richard Christian Matheson & Alan Rodgers & Ardath Mayhar & Charles R. Saunders & David B. Silva & Dennis Hamilton & G. Wayne Miller & J. N. Williamson & James Kisner & John Robert Bensink & Katherine Ramsland & Mort Castle & Stanley Wiater & Thomas Sullivan
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