Don Webb (writer)

For other people of the same name, see Donald Webb (disambiguation).

Don Webb
Don Webb (right) with Nikolas Schreck (middle) and Zeena Schreck (left) in 1999 Los Angeles Temple of Set Conclave.
Occupation	Novelist, essayist, literary instructor
Nationality	American
Genres	Science fiction, horror

Don Webb (born 1960) is an American science fiction and mystery writer, and former High Priest of the Temple of Set.

Writing career

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 writing materials.^[1] His short stories have appeared or been referenced in numerous anthologies, including The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection,^[2] Asimov's Science Fiction^[3][4][5] and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction^[6] His story "The Great White Bed" (F&SF May 2007) was nominated for the International Horror Critics Award.^[7]

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.^{[8][unreliable source?]} He currently lives in Austin, Texas^[9] and teaches creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles.^[10]

Magico-religious activities

Webb served as High Priest of the Temple of Set from 1993 to 2002.^[11] He is an authority regarding the Temple of Set 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.^[12][13]

Within the Temple of Set he is Grand Master of the Order of Setne Khamuast.^[14] This Order focuses upon Egyptian and Mediterranean magic and initiation. The working formula of this Order is to take what has worked in the past and make it work today, the idea being that returning to the root of a concept yields the most powerful and precise results for the practitioner.

Bibliography

Books

Fiction

• Judas Payne: A Weird Western / Webb's Weird Wild West: Western Tales of Horror (double book with Michael Hemmingson, Wildside Press, 2010) ISBN 143441194X
• When They Came (Temporary Culture, 2006) ISBN 0976466015
• Endless Honeymoon (St. Martin's Minotaur, 2001) ISBN 0312265824
• Essential Saltes (St. Martin's Press, 1999) ISBN 0312203020
• Serenade at the End of Time (Bereshith Pub, January 1999)^[15]
• The Explanation and Other Good Advice (Wordcraft of Oregon, 1998)^[16] ISBN 1877655252
• The Double: An Investigation (St. Martin's Press, 1998) ISBN 0312191448
• Tamarii Notebook (Tor Books, 1998)^[17]
• Anubis on Guard Selected Poetry of Don Webb (Dark Regions Press 1998)^[18]
• Stealing My Rules (CyberPsychos AOD Books, 1997) ISBN 1886988056
• A Spell for the Fulfillment of Desire (Black Ice Books, 1996) ISBN 1573660124
• "The Seventh Day and After" (Pulphouse Publishing, 1995)^[19] ISBN 1877655058
• The Agony Man (Avon, October 1995)^[20]
• Märchenland ist abgebrannt: Profane Mythen aus Milwaukee (short story collection, translated by Susanna Harringer, Guthmann-Peterson, 1989)
• Common Superstitions (Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1988)
• Uncle Ovid's Exercise Book (Illinois State University Press, Fiction Collective Two, 1987)
• The Bestseller and Others

Non-fiction

• The Seven Faces of Darkness (Occult non-fiction, Runa-Raven Press) ISBN 1885972075
• Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path (Occult non-fiction) ISBN 1885972105
• Mysteries of the Temple of Set: Inner Teachings of the Left Hand Path (Occult non-fiction) ISBN 188597227X
• Aleister Crowley: The Fire and the Force (Occult non-fiction) ISBN 1885972288

Short fiction

• "To Mars and Providence" (in War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches, Bantam Spectra, 1996, and Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of HPL in Popular Culture, edited by Jim Turner, Golden Gryphon Press, 1998)
• "Four-and-Twenty" (Originally published in Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 7: Spring 1990 (Pulphouse Publishing, Spring 1990)^[21]
• "The Key to the Mysteries" (Originally published in Grue Magazine, 1989, collected in The Explanation and Other Good Advice, 1998)^[22]
• "In the Wings" (Originally published in Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 3: Spring 1989 (Pulphouse Publishing, Spring 1989)^[23]
• 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^[24]

Reviews

• "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)

References

1. ^ "Locus Magazine". http://www.locusmag.com/index/s706.htm#A17407. 
2. ^ "The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection". http://www.rebeccaore.com/pub-eleventh_annual_years_best_science_fiction.html. Retrieved 2010-10-08. 
3. ^ "TomFolio.com". October 1988. http://www.tomfolio.com/bookdetailsmem.asp?book=P9.1255&mem=46. 
4. ^ "TomFolio.com". October 1990. http://www.tomfolio.com/bookdetailsmem.asp?book=P4.680&mem=46. 
5. ^ "TomFolio.com". October 1996. http://www.tomfolio.com/bookdetailsmem.asp?book=NO1174&mem=46. 
6. ^ "Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction". August 1994. http://www.hycyber.com/SF/fsf_wa.html. 
7. ^ "2008 International Horror Guild Awards". Locus Index to SF Awards. Locus. http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Ihg2008.html#short. Retrieved 2010-10-08. 
8. ^ "The Turkey City Writer's Workshop". http://home.roadrunner.com/~lperson1/TC.html. Retrieved 2010-10-08. 
9. ^ Di Filippo, Paul (Winter 1996). "The Texas Hermes: The Fiction of Don Webb". The Newsletter of The Council for the Literature of the Fantastic (Providence, RI: The Council for the Literature of the Fantastic) 1 (2). ISSN 1084-8266. http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/n2_r1.html. Retrieved 2010-10-08. 
10. ^ "Don Webb". UCLA Extension Writer's Program. UCLA. http://www2.uclaextension.edu/writers/instructors.php?recordID=267. Retrieved 2010-10-08. 
11. ^ "Disinformation". December 17, 2002. http://old.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id163/pg1/index.html. 
12. ^ "Temple of Set Library". http://www.xeper.org/pub/lib/xp_TOC_lib.htm. Retrieved 2010-10-08. 
13. ^ "When They Came". Publishers Weekly Reviews. October 9, 2006. 
14. ^ "Order of Setne Khamuast". http://www.xeper.org/setne/. 
15. ^ "The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique". January 1999. http://www.sfsite.com/11b/last69.htm. 
16. ^ "The Explanation and Other Good Advice". May 1998. http://www.locusmag.com/index/t869.htm#A42491. 
17. ^ "More Amazing Stories". 1998. http://www.sfsite.com/01b/amaz25.htm#Contents. 
18. ^ "Anubis on Guard Selected Poetry of Don Webb". 1998. 
19. ^ "Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine". 1995. http://www.locusmag.com/index/t684.htm#A34320. 
20. ^ "FORBIDDEN ACTS". October 1995. http://www.locusmag.com/index/t623.htm. 
21. ^ "Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 7". Spring 1990. 
22. ^ "Eldritch Tales - Issue 18". Spring 1989. http://www.locusmag.com/index/t262.htm#A15217. 
23. ^ "Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 3". Spring 1989. 
24. ^ "Pulphouse Issue 19". 2002. 

External links

• Don Webb's blog
• Don Webb at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Citations for Don Webb in the Locus Index to Science Fiction
• Point of Inquiry interview with Don Webb
• "R. A. Lafferty: Effective Arcanum" by Don Webb

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Name	Webb, Don
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Date of birth	April 30, 1960
Place of birth	TX
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