Don Webb

• Name — Don Webb • Born — 1960 • Occupation — * Novelist • essayist • literary instructor • Genre — Science fiction, horror Don Webb (born 1960) is an American science fiction and mystery writer, as well as an author of several books on Left Hand Path occult philosophy. He is also a former High Priest of the Temple of Set.

Webb's first professional fiction sale was the short story "Rhinestone Manifesto", published in Interzone 13, Autumn 1985. He is best known for weird, experimental, and offbeat fiction, as well as works inspired by H. P. Lovecraft and according to Locus Magazine, he has published many stories, essays, interviews and other writings. His short stories have appeared or been referenced in numerous anthologies, including The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection, Asimov's Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction His story "The Great White Bed" (F&SF May 2007) was nominated for the International Horror Critics Award. Webb has published 12 books and over 400 other items covering a broad range of topics. Webb is a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop. He currently lives in Austin, Texas and teaches creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Webb served as High Priest of the Temple of Set from 1993 to 2002. Accordingly, he is an authority regarding the Temple of Set and its inner workings and has published several works of non-fiction on the topic. The Temple of Set continues to publish several of his articles as recommended introductory material for prospective members.

• Collections * • Stories • Title — |Year — |First published — |Reprinted/collected — |Notes • Pollution — 2014 • To Mars and Providence — * War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, Bantam Spectra, 1996 * Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of HPL in Popular Culture, edited by Jim Turner, Golden Gryphon Press, 1998 • "Tamarii Notebook" (in More Amazing Stories, edited by Kim Mohan, Tor, 1998) • "Four-and-Twenty" (Originally published in Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 7: Spring 1990 (Pulphouse Publishing, Spring 1990) • "The Key to the Mysteries" (Originally published in Grue Magazine, 1989, collected in The Explanation and Other Good Advice, 1998) • "In the Wings" (Originally published in Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 3: Spring 1989 (Pulphouse Publishing, Spring 1989) • London is Calling with t. Winter-Damon (Back Brain Recluse, 1989; The Explanation and Other Good Advice collection, Wordcraft of Oregon, 1998) • Pulphouse Issue 19

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• "Book Becoming Power" by Henry Wessells (New York Review of Science Fiction, March 2000) • "Webb on the Web" by Jon Lebkowsky (The Austin Chronicle, Vol. 17, No. 47, July 31, 1998)