62-year-old horror author and editor David B. Silva died earlier this month.

He was probably best known as the editor of his quarterly magazine The Horror Show (1982-91) — which won a World Fantasy Award in 1988 and a Balrog in 1985 (it was nominated for three other World Fantasy Awards). In the late 1990s, he launched the weekly electronic magazine Hellnotes, which was nominated for four Bram Stoker Awards (it has since been transformed into a website owned by JournalStone Publishing, with which Silva was once again affiliated).

As a writer, he won a Bram Stoker Award in 1991 for his short story “The Calling”, and an International Horror Guild Award in 2002 for his collection Through Shattered Glass. He was nominated for two other Bram Stoker Awards and a British Fantasy Award.

His first short story appeared in 1981, and since then, he has written seven novels, edited several anthologies, and written many stories and collections of shorter fiction.

Several significant obituaries appear on the web, including Robert Swartwood’s, Dreadful Tales’, and Mark Sieber’s.