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C. Courtney Joyner

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C. Courtney Joyner is an American author, screenwriter, director and occasional actor. He is also the cousin of actress Allison Mackie.

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Author

Among the books he has written are Shotgun, a western set in the 1880s,[1] Six Guns and Sleigh Bells and Two Bit Kill. He is a regular columnist for True West Magazine and regularly contributes to The Round-Up, Western Writers of America's monthly magazine. He has twice been nominated for the Peacemaker award for Best Short Story.[2] At one of the Western Writers of America conferences, chairman Paul Andrew Hutton and Johnny Boggs presented Joyner with an award for "Outstanding Service to Western Writers of America".[3]

In March 2021, Joyner appeared on episode 8 of the Ghost of Hollywood radio show to discuss his work on the film Class of 1999.[4]

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Bibliography

Books

  • The Westerners: Interviews with Actors, Directors, Writers (2009)[5]
  • Hell Comes to Hollywood: An Anthology of Short Horror Fiction Set in Tinseltown (2012, contributor)
  • The Peacemakers, Volume 3 (2013, contributor)
  • The Peacemakers, Volume 4 (2013, contributor)
  • Shotgun (2013)
  • Shotgun: The Bleeding Ground (2016)
  • Nemo Rising (2017)
  • These Violent Times: A Shotgun Western (2018)

Short stories

  • "Bloodhound" (in A Fistful of Legends, 2009)
  • "Two-Bit Kill" (in The Law of the Gun, 2010) – Nominated, Best Short Story of the Year 2010, Western Fictioneers
  • "Universal Killer" (in Beat to a Pulp, Vol. 2, 2012)

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Graphic novels and comics

  • "I Kill the Dead" (in Wicked West 2: Abomination, 2007)
  • The Saga of Billy the Kid (2012)

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Filmography

As director

  • Trancers III (1992) (Video)
  • Lurking Fear (1994)
  • Tomb of Terror (2004) (video segment 2: "Infinite Evil")
  • Bunker of Blood Chapter 5 – Psycho Sideshow: Demon Freaks (2018) (Video)
  • Bunker of Blood Chapter 6 – Zombie Lust: Night Flesh (2018) (Video)

Audio commentary

As actor

  • Murphy's Law (1986, as Bar Patron)
  • The Flesh Merchant (1993, as Chick)
  • Iron Thunder (1998, as Mark)
  • Dead Time Tales (1998, as 3rd DiCaprio Hitman)
  • A Friendly Game of Cutthroats (1998, as Mr. Kester)
  • Scream Queen (2002, as Detective Hammer)
  • Decadent Evil (2005, uncredited)
  • Cry of the Mummy (2004, as Lab Tech #2)

As writer

References

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