Tim Waggoner

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-08-06

Tim Waggoner grew up in the Dayton, Ohio area and earned a Master of Arts in English with a creative writing concentration, along with BS Ed. and MA degrees, from Wright State University. He serves as a Professor of English at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, teaching composition and creative writing, and previously taught in Seton Hill University's low-residency MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. Before his academic career he worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, and copy editor. Waggoner is a prolific author of horror and dark fantasy, known for the urban fantasy Nekropolis series and the Ghost Trackers series co-written with Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson. He has won multiple Bram Stoker Awards, including Best Long Fiction in 2016 for the novella The Winter Box, and both Best Non-Fiction and Best Short Non-Fiction in 2020 for Writing in the Dark and the essay 'Speaking of Horror.' In 2025 he won a Scribe Award for Best Adapted Novel for his novelization of Terrifier 2. He has two daughters from a previous marriage.

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Books

• Return of the Sorceress (2004) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon
• Temple of the Dragonslayer (2004) · Dragonlance Expanded Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 17 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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