JAN EDWARDS is a UK author with several novels and many short stories in horror, fantasy, mainstream and crime fiction, including Mammoth Book of Folk Horror as well as various volumes of the MX Books of New Sherlock Holmes Stories. Jan is an editor with the award-winning Alchemy Press (includes the Alchemy Press Books of Horror series). Jan was awarded the Arnold Bennett Book Prize for Winter Downs, the first in her WWII crime series The Bunch Courtney Investigations. To read more about Jan, go to janedwardsblog.wordpress.com.
PAUL A. FREEMAN is the author of Rumours of Ophir, a crime novel which was taught at ‘O’ level in Zimbabwean high schools and has been translated into German. In addition to having two crime novels, a children’s book, and an 18,000-word narrative poem commercially published, Paul is the author of hundreds of published short stories (of various genres), articles and poems. He currently lives and works in Abu Dhabi.
JOHN GRANT is the author of over eighty books, including A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir (2013), the largest of its kind in the English language. His stories have been collected as (so far) Take No Prisoners (2004) and Tell No Lies (2014). He’s the author of a loose series of books on science issues, including Discarded Science (2006), Corrupted Science (2007; revised 2018), and Denying Science (2011). For his work editing the Paper Tiger imprint of fantasy/sf art books, he received a Chesley Award. For his own nonfiction, he has received two Hugos, a World Fantasy Award, and others. He died in February 2020.
BONNIE MACBIRD (BSI, ASH) has written three critically acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels for HarperCollins: Art in the Blood, Unquiet Spirits, and The Devil’s Due, to be followed soon by The Three Locks. A passionate fan of Holmes since the age of ten, she writes in traditional style and voice, though in novel form. Thirty years in the film business as a studio exec, screenwriter, playwright, and Emmy-winning producer inform her character-driven storytelling style. Bonnie lives in LA and London, just off Baker Street, with her husband, computer scientist Alan Kay.
After cutting her teeth translating comics, CRISTINA MACÍA is now Mother of Dragons due to her hugely popular Spanish translations of the Game of Thrones books (as well as of many Terry Pratchetts and other genre authors). Her bestselling YA novel Una casa con Encanto (A Haunted House) is now in its nineteenth edition, and she writes cookbooks too. A leading Spanish Sherlockian, CM is codirector of Spain’s principal SF, Fantasy, and Horror fan convention, Celsius 232, now in its tenth year. Her partner, SF novelist IAN WATSON (www.ianwatson.info), spent a year eyeball-to-eyeball with Stanley Kubrick, resulting in the Screen Story of the movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence, directed by Spielberg. IW and CM live in rainy Asturias Province, rich in cheeses and crabs.
ANA TERESA PEREIRA is a Portuguese writer and translator. She is the author of more than twenty novels, novellas, and collections of short stories. A reader of Henry James, John Dickson Carr, and Cornell Woolrich, she likes to think of her stories as “abstract crime fiction.” Her last novel, Karen, has won the Brazilian Oceanos Award—for the best book in the Portuguese language published in 2016. Her novella “O Atelier de Noite” was published in January 2020. She lives in Funchal, Madeira.
DAVID N. SMITH is a UK-based writer, who has had over a dozen short stories published in various anthologies. He’s recently been writing and coproducing a multi-cast audio drama series, based on the classic Fighting Fantasy gamebook range, which is currently available through Audible and iTunes. He’s also written a number of corporate training videos, but people tend to be a lot less interested in these, as they involve considerably fewer dragons. He’s also recently completed work on his first novel, which will hopefully be published in 2022. You can find more information about his writing at www.davenevsmith.co.uk.
This is the second piece of short fiction NICK SWEET has had published in an anthology edited by Maxim Jakubowski, a previous story of his having appeared in The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories. Other stories have appeared in the crime-fiction anthology Sunshine Noir, the Evergreen Review, and Descant. His crime novel The Long Siesta received a positive from critic Barry Forshaw in his book Brit Noir. Details on Nick’s other books can be found by clicking on the link to his website, here: www.nicksweetbooks.com.
L. C. (Len) TYLER is a former cultural attaché and chief executive of a medical royal college. He writes two crime series: the Herring Mysteries and a historical series featuring seventeenth-century lawyer and spy, John Grey. He has had short stories published in a number of magazines and anthologies. He has won the Goldsboro Last Laugh Award (twice), the Ian St. James Awards, and the 2017 CWA Short Story Dagger. Len has also been twice nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe award in the US. He has lived and worked all over the world but has more recently been based in London and West Sussex.
PHILLIP VINE’s short stories have been published by Solaris and appeared in numerous anthologies of prize-winning tales. He is a former ghostwriter and editor of the literary magazine, Words International. His most recent publication is Visionary: Manchester United, Michael Knighton, and the Football Revolution (Pitch Publishing, 2019). He is currently working on a novel, The Last Song of Elvis Presley. Phillip lives in Norfolk, England, with his wife Liz, and has been a lifelong fan of Sherlock Holmes.
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