Graham Joyce

Joyce worked between 1954 and 2014 across writer, novelist, science fiction writer and teacher. The registers place that work in horror literature. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

Graham Joyce studied at University of Leicester and University of Derby. The recorded working language is English. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are horror. Arthur Machen, Ernest Hemingway and Frank Herbert are recorded as an influence. Employment is recorded with Nottingham Trent University. Distinctions recorded are August Derleth Award, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, Angus Book Award and O.

• Name — Graham William Joyce • Born — 22 October 1954 • Died — 9 September 2014 • Birthplace — Keresley, England • Occupation — Writer and teacher • Genre — Speculative Fiction • Website — grahamjoyce.co.uk

The son of a working-class parents, Joyce grew up in Keresley, a small mining village just outside Coventry, before moving to live in Leicester. In interview, he speaks of the influence of the woods and countryside of his childhood, woods which, he later discovered, were among the last remaining parts of the Forest of Arden. Joyce names his grandmother as an early influence; a woman who spoke of seeing ghosts and whose strong personality inspires several of the women characters in his books. He says in interview: 'It’s true that I have been surrounded by strong women. As I grew up I spent a lot of my time with my grandmother and also with my five aunts, all of whom were very strong-willed and opinionated!' Joyce received a BEd degree from Bishop Lonsdale College in 1977 (now University of Derby) and an M.A. degree in Modern English and American Literature from the University of Leicester in 1980, Joyce worked as a youth officer for the National Association of Youth Clubs until 1988, when he and his wife Suzanne moved to the Greek islands of Lesbos and Crete, during which time Joyce wrote his first novel, Dreamside. After selling Dreamside to Pan Books in 1991, Joyce moved back to England to pursue a career as a writer. He was awarded a PhD degree by publication at Nottingham Trent University, where he taught creative writing from 1996 until his death and was made a reader in creative writing. Joyce was a strong supporter of children's education and literacy, and in 2014 spearheaded a petition signed by more than 100,000 people to remove Michael Gove from office over his changes to the English literature GCSE syllabus, telling The Guardian: "Michael Gove climbs on tables and gleefully tears the wings from mockingbirds as his coterie of supporters looks on with immobilised grins, knowing there is no one around with the power or the will to stop him." In 2011, in a piece for The Guardian, he spoke against the 'cultural elitism' of those who equate readability with 'dumbing down', following an attack by Jeanette Winterson on the Booker Prize shortlist. Joyce was the regular first-choice goalkeeper for the England Writers football team, appearing in international fixtures against Germany, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Israel, Hungary, Turkey and Austrian Writers teams. He described his footballing experiences in his non-fiction book Simple Goalkeeping Made Spectacular. He was a supporter of Coventry City FC and occasionally wrote pieces for fanzines. Joyce died on 9 September 2014. He had been diagnosed with Mantle Cell lymphoma in 2013. Joyce's reaction to his cancer was to publish several essays on the "shocking clarity" the news had brought him on the subject of death. He said "your life is suddenly propelled along a remorseless narrative that has the structure of all great mythical journeys". Graham Joyce lived in Wistow, near Leicester, with his wife and their two children.

Bill Sheehan, who wrote the introduction for Partial Eclipse, states: American author, editor and literary critic Jeff VanderMeer said: Joyce's fiction has always displayed a certain generosity of spirit that lifts it above the ordinary. This generosity is not at all sentimental, but is alive with sentiment and an appreciation for the mysteries of life. Joyce published Memoirs of a Master Forger under a pseudonym, William Heaney. He told the Guardian that because it was 'a book about forged manuscripts, faked personalities and literary hoaxes... it seemed like a fun way of doing it.' Some critics classify Joyce as a magic realist in the vein of such Latin American writers as Gabriel García Márquez or Julio Cortázar. Joyce disagrees with this, feeling that his lineage is tied more closely to writers of the English "weird tale" such as Arthur Machen or Algernon Blackwood. He calls his style of writing "Old Peculiar."

Joyce co-wrote song lyrics for French songwriter and composer Emilie Simon on her albums The Big Machine (2009) and Franky Knight (2011).

On 16 January 2009, the site Computer and Video Games reported that Graham Joyce had been hired by id Software to "help develop the storyline potential" of Doom 4; after Joyce died in 2014, Adam Gascoine was brought in as a replacement.

• "Monastic Lives" (1992) • "The Careperson" (1992) • "Last Rising Sun" (1992) • "The Ventriloquial Art" (1993) • "The Apprentice" (1993) • "Under the Pylon" (1993) • "Gap-Sickness" (1993) • "Eat Reecebread" (1994) with Peter F. Hamilton • "The Reckoning" (1994) • "Black Ball Game" (1995) • "A Tip from Bobby Moore" (1996) • "The White Stuff" (1997) with Peter F. Hamilton • "Pinkland" (1997) • "The Mountain Eats People" (1998) • "As Seen on Radio" (1998) • "Leningrad Nights" (1999) • "Candia" (1999) • "Incident in Mombasa" (1999) • "Horrograph" (1999) • "Partial Eclipse" (2000) • "Xenos Beach" (2000) • "Coventry Boy" (2001) • "Leningrad Nights" (2002) • "The Coventry Boy" (2002) • "First, Catch Your Demon" (2002) • "Black Dust" (2002) • "Tiger Moth" (2003) • "An Ordinary Soldier of the Queen" (2007) – O. Henry Award Juror Favorites, 2009 • "The Oversoul" (2008) – first published in Who Can Save Us Now? (2008), edited by Owen King and John McNally

• "Working Class Monster" (June 2000) • "Greek Virtues" • "The Great God Pan" • "Two weeks, three couples and six kids equals hell"

• Interview at Actusf • 1=August 2007 interview. Located under "Fiction" • Graham Joyce at Worlds Without End

Graham Joyce was born on 22 October 1954 in Coventry. Joyce held the nationality of United Kingdom. Joyce was educated at University of Leicester and University of Derby. Joyce worked as writer, novelist, science fiction writer and teacher. Joyce was employed by Nottingham Trent University. The fields Joyce worked in include horror literature. Joyce worked in English. Influenced by: Arthur Machen, Ernest Hemingway, Frank Herbert, Mervyn Peake, M. John Harrison and J.

• Name — Published — ISBN — Notes • Dreamside — 1991 • Dark Sister — 1992 — British Fantasy Award winner, 1993 • House of Lost Dreams — 1993 • Requiem — 1995 — British Fantasy Award winner, 1996; World Fantasy Award nominee, 1996 • The Tooth Fairy — 1996 — British Fantasy Award winner, 1997 • The Stormwatcher — 1997 — British Fantasy Award nominee, 1999 • The Web: Spiderbite — 1997 — Young Adult • Indigo — 1999 — British Fantasy Award winner, 2000 • Smoking Poppy — 2001 — British Fantasy Award nominee, 2002 • The Facts of Life — 2002 — World Fantasy Award winner, 2003; British Fantasy Award nominee, 2003 • Partial Eclipse and Other Stories — 2003 — collection • The Limits of Enchantment — 2005 — World Fantasy Award nominee, 2006 • TWOC — 2005 — Young Adult; Angus Award "winner" • Do the Creepy Thing — 2006 — Young Adult; released in the US as The Exchange (2008) • Three Ways to Snog an Alien — 2008 — Young Adult • Memoirs of a Master Forger — 2008 — as William Heaney; released in the US as How to Make Friends with Demons (2009) British Fantasy Award winner • The Devil's Ladder — 2009 — Young Adult • The Silent Land — 2010 — World Fantasy Award nominee, 2011; British Fantasy Award nominee, 2011 • Some Kind of Fairy Tale — 2012 — British Fantasy Novel award winner, 2013 • The Year of the Ladybird — 2013 — released in the US in 2014 as The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit • 25 Years in the Word Mines: The Best of Graham Joyce — 2014 — Poosthumous collection from PS Publishing