James Lowder

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-08-06

James Daniel Lowder is an American novelist, editor, game designer, and film critic born January 2, 1963, in Quincy, Massachusetts. He graduated from Whitman-Hanson Regional High School in 1981, earned an honors BA in English and History from Marquette University in 1985, and completed a master's degree in Literary Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1999. He has worked extensively in dark fantasy and horror fiction since 1987, directing bestselling tie-in book lines for TSR, Inc. in the late 1980s and early 1990s, where his novels included Prince of Lies, Knight of the Black Rose, and The Ring of Winter. He later oversaw the Pendragon fiction line for Green Knight Publishing and served as executive editor for Chaosium's fiction line from 2017 until March 2023, editing anthologies such as The Book of All Flesh, Hobby Games: The 100 Best, and Astounding Hero Tales. He has won multiple Origins Awards (2004, 2005, 2008, 2009) for fiction and non-fiction work, an ENnie Gold Award in 2017 for Pulp Cthulhu, and received a Bram Stoker Award nomination in 2005 for illustrated narrative.

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Books

• Crusade (1991) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon
• The Ring of Winter (1992) · Forgotten Realms Expanded Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 40 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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