St Albans Writes

The Advisory Board, for the St. Albans Branch Library, is proud to present St Albans Writes..a monthly speaker series featuring local authors.  Bill Bitner's first professional sale was at the age of sixteen to Space & Time Magazine.  Since then he has published the horror short story collections M is for Monster, T is for Thing, N is for Nightmare, Gone Where the Goblins Go, She Saw Dinosaurs, Dark Matters, Green Maws Are Gaping, and Face Eater, the heroic fantasy collection Worlds Beyond, the crime fiction collection, You Have to Pay, the song lyric collection, Heavy Planet Man, the science fiction novel, Down in the Drains and the crime novel, Sweet Lou.

He is also the author of the Death Falcon Zero series, Death Falcon Zero Vs The Zombie Sluglords (with Daniel Boyd), Death Falcon Zero Vs The Fists of Mars, Death Falcon Zero Vs The Elder Terrors, Death Falcon Zero Vs The Akumasaurus, and Death Falcon Zero Vs The Red Pharaoh.

He was a staff writer for the Chillers series of graphic horror anthologies by Caliber Comics which was nominated for the Shel Dorf and Ghastly Awards in 2012.

His writing was featured in the anthology Back Roads along with three other prominent West Virginia authors including WV Poet Laureate Marc Harshman, as well as being included in The British Horror Foundation’s eighth collection of contemporary horror.

His novelette “Gone Where the Goblins Go” was adapted into a film which has been shown on the big screen at the Foundry Theater, my short story “Witch Hunt” was made into a short film also shown at Foundry as well as the West Virginia Independent Film Festival in Charleston.

Three of his short stories were adapted into radio style plays and presented before a live audience at the Foundry Theater in Huntington, WV in October, 2021 while simultaneously being broadcast over the internet. Due to the favorable response the program was repeated with two new adaptations for the Huntington Movie and Arts Festival in 2022.

From 2002 to 2012 Bill produced 293 issues of a proto-blog, The Bill Bitner Newsletter which by the end of its run had over a thousand readers per issue including subscribers in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The Newsletter archives are now being collected in print.

Projected books for 2024 include the science fiction/horror novel, Invasion of the Space Piranhas, the sixth archival Newsletter release, I Feel Like Oblivion, and the sixth book in the DFZ series, Death Falcon Zero Vs The Sea Devil.