by Ellen Datlow
Pat Cadigan sold her first professional science fiction story in 1980 and became a full-time writer in 1987. She is the author of fifteen books, including two nonfiction books on the making of Lost in Space and The Mummy, one young adult novel, and the two Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning novels Synners and Fools. She has also won the Locus Award three times and the Hugo Award for her novelette, “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi,” which also won the Seiun Award in Japan.
She can be found on Facebook and Pinterest, tweets as @cadigan, and lives in North London with her husband, the Original Chris Fowler, where she is stomping the hell out of terminal cancer. Most of her books are available electronically via SF Gateway, the ambitious electronic publishing program from Gollancz.
Elise Forier Edie is an award-winning author and playwright based in Los Angeles. Recent publications include horror and fairy stories in Cast of Wonders, Disturbed Digest, and Enchanted Conversation. Her hit play The Pink Unicorn, about a transgender teenager, has been seen throughout the United States and Canada, most recently in Minneapolis and Pittsburgh. Elise is a member of the Horror Writers Association, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and the Authors Guild.
She has taught writing and arts classes at Central Washington University, Northland Pioneer College, West Los Angeles College, and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She is a proud graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. You can find out more about her at www.eliseforieredie.com.
Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses and the novella The Warren. His novel Last Days won the American Library Association’s award for Best Horror Novel, and his collection The Wavering Knife won the International Horror Guild Award. He has been a finalist for an Edgar Award and the Shirley Jackson Award. His work has been translated into French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Spanish, and Slovenian. He lives in Valencia, California, and teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts.
Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, The Cosmology of the Wider World, and The Shadow Year. His short story collections are The Fantasy Writer’s Assistant, The Empire of Ice Cream, The Drowned Life, Crackpot Palace, and A Natural History of Hell. Ford’s short fiction has appeared in a wide variety of magazines and anthologies. Both books and stories have been translated into nearly twenty languages worldwide. Ford is the recipient of the World Fantasy Award, the Nebula Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Hayakawa Award, and the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. He lives in Ohio in a 120-year-old farmhouse surrounded by corn and soybean fields and teaches part-time at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Eric J. Guignard is a writer and editor of dark and speculative fiction, operating from the shadowy outskirts of Los Angeles. His work has appeared in publications such as Nightmare magazine, Black Static, Shock Totem, Buzzy Mag, and Dark Discoveries magazine. He won the Bram Stoker Award, was a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award, and was a multinominee of the Pushcart Prize. Outside the glamorous and jet-setting world of indie fiction, Eric’s a technical writer and college professor, and he stumbles home each day to a wife, children, cats, and a terrarium filled with mischievous beetles. Visit Eric at www.ericjguignard.com; his blog, ericjguignard.blogspot.com; or Twitter: @ericjguignard.
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of sixteen novels, six story collections, and more than 250 stories and has some comic books in the works. His current book is Mapping the Interior. Stephen’s been the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Fiction, the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse H. Jones Award for Fiction, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and three This Is Horror Awards, and he’s made Bloody Disgusting’s Top Ten Horror Novels of the Year. Stephen teaches in the MFA programs at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of California, Riverside (Palm Desert). He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, two children, and too many old trucks. Visit him at Twitter: @SGJ72.
Dark fantasy and horror author Kate Jonez has twice been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and once for the Shirley Jackson Award. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eight; Black Static; Pseudopod; and many anthologies. She is also the chief editor at Omnium Gatherum, a multiple-award-nominated press dedicated to publishing unique dark fantasy, weird fiction, and horror. Kate is a student of all things scary, and when she isn’t writing, she loves to collect objects for her cabinet of curiosities, research obscure and strange historical figures, and photograph Southern California, where she lives with a very nice man and two little dogs who are also very nice but could behave a little bit better.
Paul Kane is the award-winning, bestselling author and editor of more than seventy books—including the Hooded Man trilogy (revolving around a postapocalyptic version of Robin Hood), Hellbound Hearts, and Monsters.
His nonfiction books include The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy and Voices in the Dark, and his genre journalism has appeared in the likes of SFX, Rue Morgue, and Death Ray. His latest novels are Lunar (set to be turned into a feature film), The Rainbow Man (as P. B. Kane), Blood RED, Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, and Before. His work has been optioned and adapted for the big and small screen, including for U.S. network television.
He lives in Derbyshire, United Kingdom, with his wife Marie O’Regan, his family, and a black cat called Mina. Find out more at www.shadow-writer.co.uk.
John Langan is the author of two novels, The Fisherman and House of Windows. He has published two collections of stories, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies and Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters.
With Paul Tremblay, he coedited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters. He is one of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, for which he served as a juror during its first three years. He reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine and lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife and son. His newest collection of stories, Sefira and Other Betrayals, will be published in 2017.
John R. Little’s first novel, The Memory Tree, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in 2008. Since then, three of his other books have also been nominated for the Stoker, with Miranda winning. His most recent novels are Soul Mates and DarkNet.
His short fiction has been published in the magazines The Twilight Zone, Cavalier, and Weird Tales and in anthologies, including Shivers IV, Blood Lite II, Dark Delicacies III: Haunted, Qualia Nous, and others.
You can connect with John at his website, www.johnrlittle.com, or on Facebook. He’d love to hear from you.
Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and comic book writer. He writes in multiple genres, including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, and steampunk, for adults, teens, and middle grade. His works include the Joe Ledger thrillers, Rot & Ruin, Mars One (now in development for film), the Pine Deep Trilogy (in development for television), Captain America, and many others. He is the editor of high-profile anthologies, including The X-Files, V-Wars, Scary Out There, Out of Tune, Baker Street Irregulars, and Nights of the Living Dead. The popular V-Wars: A Game of Blood and Betrayal board game is based on his novels and comics. He lives in Del Mar, California. Find him online at www.jonathanmaberry.com.
Seanan McGuire lives, works, and watches way too many horror movies in the Pacific Northwest, where she shares her home with her two enormous blue cats, a ridiculous number of books, and a large collection of creepy dolls. Seanan does not sleep much, publishing an average of four books a year under both her own name and the pen name Mira Grant. Her first book, Rosemary and Rue, was released in September 2009, and she hasn’t stopped running since. When not writing, Seanan enjoys Disney Parks, horror movies, and looking winsomely at Marvel editorials as she tries to convince them to let her write for the X-Men.
Keep up with Seanan at www.seananmcguire.com, on Twitter as @seananmcguire, or by walking into a cornfield at night and calling the secret, hidden name of the Great Pumpkin to the moon. When you turn, she will be there. She will always have been there.
S. P. Miskowski’s novel Knock Knock and novella Delphine Dodd were finalists for the Shirley Jackson Award. She is a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Her short stories have been published in the anthologies October Dreams II, The Hyde Hotel, Cassilda’s Song, Autumn Cthulhu, The Madness of Dr. Caligari, and Darker Companions: Celebrating 50 Years of Ramsey Campbell and have appeared or will soon appear in Black Static, Supernatural Tales, and Strange Aeons. With Kate Jonez she edited the anthology Little Visible Delight.
A full-time writer for many years, Garth Nix has also worked as a literary agent, a marketing consultant, a book editor, a book publicist, a book sales representative, a bookseller, and a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Garth’s books include the award-winning and bestselling Old Kingdom series Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel, and Goldenhand; the science fiction novels Shade’s Children and A Confusion of Princes; many fantasy novels for children, including The Ragwitch; the six books of the Seventh Tower sequence; the Keys to the Kingdom series; and the recently published Frogkisser!, which is being developed by Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios as an animated musical. He is also the author of Newt’s Emerald, a “Regency romance with magic,” and with Sean Williams has cowritten Spirit Animals: Blood Ties, the Troubletwisters series, and the Have Sword, Will Travel series. More than five million copies of Garth’s books have been sold around the world; they have appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, USA Today, The Sunday Times, and The Australian, and his work has been translated into forty-one languages. He lives in Sydney, Australia. To find him on social media, please visit www.garthnix.com, www.facebook.com/garthnix, and Twitter @garthnix.
Joanna Parypinski is a college English instructor by day and a writer of the dark and strange by night. Her fiction and poetry have appeared at NewMyths.com and in The Burning Maiden, Volume 2; Dark Moon Digest; Arcane II; The Literati Quarterly; and elsewhere.
When she isn’t grading or concocting tales and verse, she may be found playing the cello, wandering around local cemeteries, or dreaming of October. She loves Halloween so much that she is even having a Halloween-themed wedding! For more, visit her website at joannaparypinski.com.
About the Editors
Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for more than thirty-five years. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited more than fifty anthologies, including The Best Horror of the Year series, Fearful Symmetries, The Doll Collection, The Monstrous, and Black Feathers.
A multiple award winner for her work, Datlow is a recipient of the Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” and has been honored with Life Achievement Awards by both the Horror Writers Association and the World Fantasy Convention.
She lives in New York and cohosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at www.datlow.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter as @EllenDatlow.
Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, an author of nonfiction books, a Bram Stoker Award–winning prose writer, an editor, and a Halloween expert whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening.” As a Halloween expert, she has appeared on the History Channel and BBC Radio and in the pages of Real Simple magazine and The Wall Street Journal, and she served as consultant on the first official U.S. Postal Service Halloween stamps. Her most recent releases include Ghosts: A Haunted History and Cemetery Dance Select: Lisa Morton. She lives in the San Fernando Valley and can be found online at www.lisamorton.com.
Permissions
“With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfsbane Seeds” by Seanan McGuire, copyright © 2017 by Seanan McGuire. Used by permission of the author.
“Dirtmouth” by Stephen Graham Jones, copyright © 2017 by Stephen Graham Jones. Used by permission of the author.
“A Small Taste of the Old Country” by Jonathan Maberry, copyright © 2017 by Jonathan Maberry. Used by permission of the author.
“Wick’s End” by Joanna Parypinski, copyright © 2017 by Joanna Parypinski. Used by permission of the author.
“The Seventeen-Year Itch” by Garth Nix, copyright © 2017 by Garth Nix. Used by permission of the author.
“A Flicker of Light on Devil’s Night” by Kate Jonez, copyright © 2017 by Kate Jonez. Used by permission of the author.
“Witch Hazel” by Jeffrey Ford, copyright © 2017 by Jeffrey Ford. Used by permission of the author.
“Nos Galan Gaeaf” by Kelley Armstrong, copyright © 2017 by Kelley Armstrong. Used by permission of the author.
“We’re Never Inviting Amber Again” by S. P. Miskowski, copyright © 2017 by S. P. Miskowski. Used by permission of the author.
“Sisters” by Brian Evenson, copyright © 2017 by Brian Evenson. Used by permission of the author.
“All Through the Night” by Elise Forier Edie, copyright © 2017 by Elise Forier Edie. Used by permission of the author.
“A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds” by Eric J. Guignard, copyright © 2017 by Eric J. Guignard. Used by permission of the author.
“The Turn” by Paul Kane, copyright © 2017 by Paul Kane. Used by permission of the author.
“Jack” by Pat Cadigan, copyright © 2017 by Pat Cadigan. Used by permission of the author.
“Lost in the Dark” by John Langan, copyright © 2017 by John Langan. Used by permission of the author.
“The First Lunar Halloween” by John R. Little, copyright © 2017 by John R. Little. Used by permission of the author.
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