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B.A.H. Cameron was born in Mississippi, raised in Colorado and now lives in Seattle with his wife and five children. He writes speculative fiction with an emphasis on space opera and superhuman fiction, and works as a freelance editor, writer, illustrator and web designer. His debut novel Ordinary Villainy, will be available fall 2014.
Michael M. Hughes lives in Baltimore with his wife and two daughters. He writes fiction and nonfiction, and his bestselling debut novel, Blackwater Lights, was released by Hydra (Random House) in 2013. The second book in the trilogy, Witch Lights, will be released in October 2014. When he's not writing, Hughes performs as a mentalist (psychic entertainer) and speaks on Fortean and paranormal topics. Visit his website at: http://michaelmhughes.com.
Jeff C. Carter lives in Venice, CA with two cats, a dog, and a human. His stories appear in the anthologies DELTA GREEN: EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONS, OH LITTLE TOWN OF DEATHLEHEM, CELLAR DOOR Vol 1, SONG STORIES: BLAZE OF GLORY, SUPER, TALES FROM THE BELL CLUB, SHORT SIPS Vol 2, AVENIR ECLECTIA Vol 1, SCIENCE GONE MAD and FRIGHTMARES as well as Trembles, Calliope and eFiction magazine. He is currently developing MECHAWEST, a steam punk RPG for Heroic Journey Publishing.
L.K. Feuerstein is a Colorado native. She moved to Northern Colorado while obtaining her B.A. in Creative Writing from Colorado State University. She's been writing stories and poems since she was ten years old and prefers to write in science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. This is her first inclusion in a non-poetry compilation. She is currently working on two books, a horror Blood Valley and a fantasy Waterfall Mentor (both working titles), drafts expected to be completed in 2016.
Nick Nafpliotis is a music teacher and writer from Charleston, South Carolina. During the day, he instructs students from the ages of 11-14 on how to play band instruments. At night, he writes about weird crime, bizarre history, pop culture, and humorous classroom experiences on his blog, RamblingBeachCat.com. He is also a television, novel, and comic book reviewer for AdventuresinPoorTaste.com. Nick has been published in Voluted Tales, Horror in Bloom Anthology, and Nebula Rift Science Fiction Magazine. You can also follow him on Twitter at @NickNafster79, where he brings shame to his family on a daily basis.
Tracie McBride is a New Zealander who lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and three children. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in over 80 print and electronic publications, including Bleed, FISH and the Stoker Award-nominated anthologies Horror for Good and Horror Library Volume 5. Her debut collection Ghosts Can Bleed contains much of the work that earned her a Sir Julius Vogel Award. She helps to wrangle slush for Dark Moon Digest and is the vice president of Dark Continents Publishing. Visitors to her blog are welcome at http://traciemcbridewriter.wordpress.com/.
David J. Fielding is a writer and an actor, most well-known for playing the role of Zordon on the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers television series, and voice actor for video games such as Empire Earth, Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna, Zeus, Poseidon, and Anvil of Dawn. His published works have appeared in Nevermet Press, Rebel ePublishers LLC, Source Point Press, and the upcoming Capes and Clockwork Anthology from Dark Oak Press and the Something Strange is Going On anthology from Flinch! Books. He is busy editing and revising his superhero novel, a series of paranormal stories and a number of other short stories.
Brian Kaufman might have been the slowest center fielder in the history of the New York Yankees, or the loudest, most abrasive radio talk show host to ever grace the airwaves. Instead, he opted for a major in cooking with a minor in fiction writing. Known for procrastination and the consumption of adult beverages, Brian managed just three novels in six decades of amateur and professional lying. The Breach (Last Knight Publishing, 2002) tells the story of the Alamo from the Mexican point of view. The Apocalypse Parable (Last Knight Publishing, 2006) follows a low-rent private eye in search of a modern-day messiah. Dead Beyond the Fence (Dark Silo Press, 2010) is a zombie horror tale. Brian currently writes textbooks for a distance-learning company. He lives in the Colorado mountains with his wife and dog. In his spare time, Brian lifts weights, plays blues guitar and tries to get the dog to do the chores.
Robert M. Price, a fan of H.P. Lovecraft since the Lancer paperback collections of 1967 appeared, began writing scholarly articles and humorous pieces on HPL and the Cthulhu Mythos in 1981. His celebrated semi-pro zine Crypt of Cthulhu began as a quarterly fanzine for the Esoteric Order of Dagon Amateur Press Association in 1981 and made it to 109 issues. In 1990 he began editing Mythos anthologies for Fedogan & Bremer and Chaosium, Inc. and still does! His fiction has been collected in Blasphemies and Revelations.
Pete Rawlik, a long time collector of Lovecraftian fiction, and is the author of more than twenty-five short stories, a smattering of poetry, the Cthulhu Mythos novel Reanimators, and it's forthcoming sequel The Weird Company. He is a frequent contributor to the Lovecraft ezine and the New York Review of Science Fiction. In 2014 his short story Revenge of the Reanimator was nominated for a New Pulp Award. He lives in southern Florida where he works on Everglades issues.
Mary SanGiovanni is the author of ten books and counting, usually involving cosmic supernatural horrors, as well as numerous short stories. Her first novel, The Hollower, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. She has an MA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and is a member of The Authors' Guild, the International Thriller Writers, and Penn Writers. More information aboutMary can be found on her website: http://www.marysangiovanni.com.
William Meikle is a Scottish writer, now living in Canada, with twenty novels published in the genre press and over 300 short story credits in thirteen countries. His work has appeared in a number of professional anthologies and magazines with recent sales to NATURE Futures, Penumbra and Buzzy Mag among others. He lives in Newfoundland with whales, bald eagles and icebergs for company. When he's not writing he dreams of fortune and glory.
Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., is the author of the novels, The Orphan Palace and Nightmare's Disciple, and he has written many short stories that have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including 'Weird Fiction Review', 'Crypt of Cthulhu', and 'Lovecraft eZine', Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, S. T. Joshi's Black Wings (I and III) and A Mountain Walked, Book of Cthulhu, Tales of Jack the Ripper, and The Children of Old Leech, and many anthologies edited by Robert M. Price. His highlyñacclaimed short story collections, Blood Will Have Its Season, SIN & ashes, and Portraits of Ruin, were published by Hippocampus Press in 2009, 2010, and 2012, respectively. He edited A Season in Carcosa and The Grimscribe's Puppets (Miskatonic River Press 2012 and 2013), issue #30 of 'Lovecraft eZine', and collections by Ann K. Schwader (The Worms Remember) and John B. Ford. He is at work on two new collections of weird fiction, A House of Hollow Wounds, and The Protocols of Ugliness, both edited by Jeffrey Thomas, and is currently editing CASSILDA'S SONG and THE LEAVES OF A NECRONOMICON for 2015 release (both Chaosium).You can find his blog at: http://thisyellowmadness.blogspot.com/
Tom Lynch is a longtime devotee of the art of the terrifying tale. He is descended from a line of family that enjoys a good nightmare, so is it any wonder he writes stories with a darker twist? Tom's first fiction appeared in Horror for the Holidays from Miskatonic River Press, and he has since appeared in the ever-eldritch Lovecraft eZine, Tales of the Talisman Volume 8, Issue 4, Undead and Unbound, Eldritch Chrome, and Dark Rites of Cthulhu. As of this moment, future appearances include When Darkness Calls, Dark Rites of Cthulhu, Atomic Age Cthulhu: Terrifying Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, and others, but the ink is not yet dry enough to divulge details. By day, Tom is an elementary school teacher, looking to expand young minds and spends the rest of his spare time hunched over his keyboard writing scary stories devoted to giving you nightmares.
Richard Gavin is often praised as a master of numinous horror fiction in the tradition of Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and H.P. Lovecraft. His fiction has appeared in THE YEAR'S BEST WEIRD FICTION, THE BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR and has been collected in the bo
oks CHARNEL WINE, OMENS, THE DARKY SPLENDID REALM, and AT FEAR'S ALTAR. He has also published numerous essays of the macabre and the esoteric. "Echoes from Hades", his non-fiction column, can be found on the acclaimed website The Teeming Brain. Richard lives in Ontario, Canada. He welcomes readers at www.richardgavin.net
Born in Vancouver, Canada and bred on a steady diet of comics, horror books and movies, Desmond Reddick writes, podcasts and teaches in a small town on Vancouver Island. There he resides with his loving wife, two wild sons, a half-dozen vicious chickens and one very neurotic duck named Howard (pictured above). He has been published in two volumes of Pulpwork Press's HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD and in THE END WAS NOT THE END: POST-APOCALYPTIC FANTASY TALES from Seventh Star Press. Find him at www.dreadmedia.com.
The art and poetry of Morgan Griffith appeared in numerous fantasy/horror magazines in the '80's and '90's, including Eldritch Tales; Undinal Songs; Etchings and Odysseys; Grue; Fantasy Macabre; The Arkham Sampler and Gary Crawford's Supernatural Poetry. In 2003 two pen and ink drawings were included in Leilah Wendell's hardcover volume Necromance under the name Wraith. Attempting reanimation, short fiction and art of Morgan's has recently appeared in Cellar Door and James Ward Kirk's Bones anthology. Poetry is also to come in Dead But Dreaming. She is a Californian relocated to Florida who does glass etching/sandblasting, and lives with pet rats.
Jason Andrew lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Lisa. He is an Associate member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Active Member of the Horror Writer’s Association, and member of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.
By day, he works as a mild-mannered technical writer. By night, he writes stories of the fantastic and occasionally fights crime.
His first short story, written at age six, titled ‘The Wolfman Eats Perry Mason’ was severely rejected. It also caused his Grandmother to watch him very closely for a few years. His short fiction has appeared in markets such as Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic SF (Harper Collins), Frontier Cthulhu: Ancient Horrors in the New World (Chaosium), and Coins of Chaos (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing). In 2011, his story “Moonlight in Scarlet” received an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow’s List for Best Horror of the Year.
In addition, Jason has written for a number of role-playing games such as Call of Cthulhu, Shadowrun, and Vampire: The Masquerade. His most recent projects include Hunters Hunted 2 (The Onyx Path), Anarchs Unbound (The Onyx Path), and Atomic Age Cthulhu: Terrifying Tales of the Mythos Menace (Chaosium). Recently, he served as Developer for Mind’s Eye Theatre: Vampire The Masquerade for By Night Studios.
Brett J. Talley is the Bram Stoker Award nominated author of That Which Should Not Be, The Void, and The Reborn, as well as numerous short stories. Born in Alabama, he now lives in Washington, D.C. where he serves as a speechwriter for a United States Senator.
Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination, Silvia Moreno-Garcia lives in beautiful British Columbia with her family and two cats. She writes speculative fiction (from magic realism to horror). Her short stories have appeared in places such as The Book of Cthulhu and Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing. Her first collection, This Strange Way of Dying, is out in 2013. Her debut novel, Signal to Noise, will be released in 2015 by Solaris.
James Pratt mostly writes in the weird horror genre with dashes of fantasy, sci-fi, and action/adventure. And monsters. Lots of monsters. He has stories appearing in a number of anthologies including Canopic Jars: Tales of Mummies and Mummification from Great Old Ones Press, Demonic Visions Vols.1, 2, and 3, Alter Egos Vol. 2 from Source Point Press, Dark Hall Press Cosmic Horror Anthology, and Mirror Mirror from Thirteen Press, as well as in a number of upcoming anthologies. He also has short story collections available for download from several vendors including Amazon.com: the creature-centric Horrible Stories for Terrible People Vol. 1 - Monsters, and Horrible Stories for Terrible People Vol. 2 - Obscura whose inhabitants include ghosts, the Grim Reaper, the Devil, and the Lord Almighty. James is currently working on two more short story collections, one fantasy and the other apocalypse-themed, and a Weird Western novel set firmly in the Lovecraft universe. James' author page can be found on Facebook as "James D. Pratt".
J. F. Gonzalez is the author of several novels of horror and dark suspense including They, Back From the Dead, Primitive, Survivor. With Wrath James White, he is the co-author of two short novels (Hero, The Killings). He is also the co-author of the Clickers series (with Mark Williams and Brian Keene respectively), of which the latest effort is Clickers vs. Zombies. Over eighty of his short stories and novellas have appeared in various magazines and anthologies and much of this is collected in four volumes which includes the latest, Screaming To Get Out & Other Wailings of the Damned. Several of his novels and short stories have been optioned for film, but nothing ever gets made. J.F. passed away in 2014. For more information on his work, visit his official website at www.jfgonzalez.com.
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Table of Contents
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Dedication
Foreword
The Arkham Town Musicians
The Arkham Town Musicians
The Magical Fruit
Ginger Snap
A Wisdom That Is Woe, a Woe That Is Madness
I Am...
The Apprentice, the Muse and the Mancer
L2RH
The Lost Book of Grimm
The Hound of K'n-Yan
The Case of Virgin Mary Smith
The Lost Town
The Witch's Library
Boots of Curious Leather
Donkeyskin
The Batrachian Prince
The Orthometrists of Vhoorl
The Hundred Years' Sleep
The Wonderful Musician
When Light Returned to Karakossa
The Sovereign of Fear
The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot
Sticks and Stones, Skin and Bones
The House of the Sleeping Beauties
The Piper In Yellow
In the Details
Black Goat of the Hundred Acre Woods
The Dunwich Ball
The Dunwich Ball Artwork
Author Biographies
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