by S. T. Joshi
The Contributors:
Michael Aronovitz’s debut collection Seven Deadly Pleasures was published by Hippocampus Press in 2009, and his firstnovel, Alice Walks, was released by Centipede Press in 2013.Hippocampus recently committed to Aronovitz’s novel The Witch of the Wood (release date in early 2014). Aronovitz’sshort ghost story “How Bria Died” was featured in PaulaGuran’s The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, 2011, and hehas published short fiction in Weird Tales, The Weird Fiction Review, Bosley Gravel’s Cavalcade of Terror, Polluto, Kaleidotrope, Black Petals, Studies in the Fantastic, Philly Fiction, Demon Minds, Metal Scratches, Death Head Grin, Schlock Webzine, Lost Souls, The Turks Head Review, Fiction on the Web, and many others. Michael Aronovitz is a Professor of English and lives with his wife, Kim, and their son, Max, inWynnewood, Pennsylvania.
Hannes Bok (1914—1964) was best known as one of the premier artists in fantasy, horror, and science fiction during his lifetime, but he also wrote a substantial amount of weird fiction, including The Sorcerer’s Ship (1942/1969), “The Blue Flamingo” (1948; expanded as Beyond the Golden Stair, 1970), and two collaborations with A. Merritt, The Fox Woman andThe Blue Pagoda (1946) and The Black Wheel (1947). His artwork was gathered in such volumes as Beauty and the Beasts:The Art of Hannes Bok (1978), A Hannes Bok Treasury (1993), and A Hannes Bok Showcase (1995).
Jason V Brock has been widely published in magazines, comics, and anthologies such as Butcher Knives & Body Counts, Weird Fiction Review, S. T. Joshi’s Black Wings series, Like Water for Quarks, Fangoria, and other venues. He has published the short story collection Simulacrum and Other Possible Realities (Hippocampus Press, 2013) and the novella Milton’s Children (Bad Moon Books, 2013), and is the editor-in-chief of a digest called [NameL3ss]. Brock served as coeditor/contributor (with William F. Nolan) to the award-winning Cycatrix Press anthologies The Bleeding Edge (2009) and The Devil’s Coattails (2011). His films include the documentaries Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man, The AckerMonster Chronicles!, and the forthcoming Image, Reflection, Shadow: Artists of the Fantastic. A health nut and gadget freak, he lives in the Vancouver, WA area, and loves his wife, Sunni, their family of herptiles, and practicing vegan/vegetarianism.
Ramsey Campbell has been described by the Oxford Companion to English Literature as “Britain’s most respectedliving horror writer.” He has received more awards than anyother writer in the field, including the Grand Master Award ofthe World Horror Convention, the Lifetime AchievementAward of the Horror Writers Association, and the LivingLegend Award of the International Horror Guild. Among hisnovels are The Face That Must Die (1979/1983), Incarnate (1983), Midnight Sun (1990), The Count of Eleven (1991), The Darkest Part of the Woods (2002), The Overnight (2004), The Grin of the Dark (2007), The Seven Days of Cain (2010), Ghosts Know (2011), The Kind Folk (2012), and The Last Revelation of Gla’aki (2013). His collections include Waking Nightmares (1991), Alone with the Horrors (1993), Told by the Dead (2003), Just Behind You (2009), and Holes for Faces (2013) and his nonfiction is collected as Ramsey Campbell, Probably (2002). His novels The Nameless and Pact of the Fathers have been filmed in Spain. He is the President of theSociety of Fantastic Films.
Gary Fry lives in Dracula’s Whitby, literally around the corner from where Stoker was staying while thinking about that character. Gary has a Ph.D. in psychology, but his first love is literature. He is the author of thirteen books, including the first in PS Publishing’s Showcase range (Sanity and Other Delusions, 2007), as well as several novels, novellas, and short story collections. His latest books are Emergence, Conjure House, Lurker (all from DarkFuse, 2013), and Shades of Nothingness (PS Publishing, 2013).
Richard Gavin is often cited as a master of visionary horror fiction in the tradition of Poe, Blackwood, and Lovecraft. His books include Charnel Wine (Rainfall Books, 2004), Omens (Mythos Books, 2007), The Darkly Splendid Realm (Dark Regions Press, 2009), and At Fear’s Altar (Hippocampus Press, 2012). Richard has also published meditations on the horror genre and essays of arcana. He lives in Ontario, Canada.
Lois H. Gresh is a New York Times bestselling author (6 times), Publishers Weekly bestselling paperback children’s author, and USA Today bestseller of twenty-seven books and fifty-five stories. Her books have appeared in twenty-two languages. Titles include Eldritch Evolutions (Chaosium, 2011), Dark Fusions (PS Publishing, 2013), and The Mortal Instruments Companion (St. Martin’s Press, 2013). Current stories are in Mark of the Beast, Eldritch Chrome, A Mountain Walked, Black Wings III, The Madness of Cthulhu, That Is Not Dead, Expiration Date, The Darke Phantastique, and others. Lois has received Bram Stoker, Nebula, Theodore Sturgeon, and International Horror Guild Award nominations.
John D. Haefele is well known in Lovecraft and Derleth literary communities, having written for the Cimmerian, Lovecraft Studies, Nameless, Weird Fiction Review, and other publications. In 2009, H. Harksen Productions issued his monograph August Derleth Redux: The Weird Tale 1930—1971, and in 2012, A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos: Origins of the Cthulhu Mythos. Scheduled for 2014 is Derleth Demythologized: H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth and Arkham House Publishing. The first tale of haunted Sac Prairie appears in Dark Fusions, edited by Lois Gresh (PS Publishing, 2013).
Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of several novels, including The Red Tree (Roc, 2010; nominated for the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy Awards) and The Drowning Girl: A Memoir (Roc, 2012; nominated for the Shirley Jackson, Nebula, Mythopoeic, Locus, and Bram Stoker Awards, and winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award). Her short fiction has been collected in several volumes, including Tales of Pain and Wonder (2001, 2008), To Charles Fort, with Love (2005), A Is for Alien (2009), The Ammonite Violin & Others (2010), Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, Volume 1 (2011; Volume 2 to be released in 2014), Confessions of a Five- Chambered Heart (2012), and the forthcoming The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories, all from Subterranean Press. She is currently scripting a critically acclaimed series for Dark Horse, Alabaster, based on her Darcy Flammarion character, and working on her next novel. She was recently hailed by the New York Times as “one of our essential writers of dark fiction.” Born in Ireland and raised in the American Deep South, she now lives in Providence, R.I., with her partner, Kathryn.
Nancy Kilpatrick has published eighteen novels, more than 200 short stories, and a few collections of stories, the most recent being Vampyric Variations (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2012). In addition, she is the author of the nonfiction book The goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined (St. Martin’s Press, 2004). She is also an anthologist of thirteen volumes, the most recent being Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, 2012), which won the 2012 Paris Book Festival award for best anthology. She lives in Montreal but travels frequently.
Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including Bullettime (CZP, 2012) and Love Is the Law (Dark Horse, 2013), and more than ninety works of short fiction. His stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Weird Tales, and Best American Mystery Stories. As an anthologist, he won a Bram Stoker Award for Haunted Legends (Tor, 2010; with Ellen Datlow), and also edited the acclaimed The Future Is Japanese (Haikasoru, 2012; with Masumi Washington).
W. H. Pugmire created Sesqua Valley in the early 1970s, after returning from his duties as a Mormon missionary and feeling that new religious fervor: obsessed H. P. Lovecraft fanboy. He is devoted to a career of writing book after book of Lovecraftian weird fiction. Some recent titles include The Tangled Muse (Centipede Press, 2011), Some Unknown Gulf of Night (Arcane Wisdom, 2011), Gathered Dust and Others (Dark Regions Press, 2011), Uncommon Places (Hippocampus Press, 2012), The Strange Dark One: Tales of Nyarlathotep (Miskatonic River Press, 2012), Encounters with Enoch Coffin (Dark Regions Press, 2013), and Bohemians of Sesqua Valley (Arcane Wisdom,
2013). Pugmire dreams in Seattle.
Ann K. Schwader’s poetry and fiction have appeared in A Season in Carcosa (Miskatonic River Press, 2012), The Book of Cthulhu and The Book of Cthulhu II (Night Shade Books, 2011and 2012), Fungi (Innsmouth Free Press, 2012), and elsewhere.Her most recent poetry collection is Twisted in Dream (Hippocampus Press, 2011). She is an active member of bothHWA and SFWA, and a 2010 Bram Stoker Award finalist.Schwader lives and writes in Colorado.
Darell Schweitzer is the author of three novels, The Shattered Goddess (Donning, 1982), The White Isle (Weird Tales Library,1990), and The Mask of the Sorcerer (New English library,1995), and about 300 stories, which have appeared in a widevariety of magazines and anthologies since the early 1970s. Heis a four-time World Fantasy Award nominee and one-time winner.His novella Living with the Dead (PS Publishing, 2008) wasa Shirley Jackson Award finalist. His most recent story collectionsare Echoes of the Goddess and The Emperor of the Ancient Word (both Borgo Press, 2013). He was co-editor of Weird Tales for nineteen years and has since edited anthologies.
John Shirley is a novelist, screenwriter, television writer, songwriter, and author of numerous story collections. He is a past Guest of Honor at the World Horror Convention and won the Bram Stoker Award for his story collection Black Butterflies (Ziesing, 1998). His screenplays include The Crow. He has written teleplays for Poltergeist: The Legacy, Deep Space Nine, and other shows. His novels include Demons (Del Rey, 2002), the A Song Called Youth trilogy (1985—90), Wetbones (Ziesing, 1992), Bleak History (Simon & Schuster, 2009), and Everything Is Broken (Prime Books, 2012). His newest books are New Taboos (PM Press, 2013) and Doyle After Death (HarperCollins, 2013). His latest story collection is In Extremis: The Most Extreme Stories of John Shirley (Underland Press, 2012).
Brian Stableford’s recent fiction includes a series of novellas and novels featuring Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Auguste Dupin, some of which—including the title story of the collection The Legacy of Erich Zann and Other Stories (Borgo Press, 2012) and The Cthulhu Encryption (Borgo Press, 2011)—confront him with aspects of the Cthulhu Mythos. The latest in the series is Yesterday Never Dies (Borgo Press, 2013). He is currently translating a good deal of early French roman scientifique for Black Coat Press, with a view of writing a history of the genre that will form a companion piece to another work in progress, a four-volume History of Scientific Romance.
Simon Strantzas is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collections Beneath the Surface (2008), Cold to the Touch (2009), and Nightingale Songs (2011), all published by Dark Regions Press. He is also the editor of Shadows Edge (Grey Friar Press, 2013). His writing has appeared in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and has been nominated for the British Fantasy Award. He lives in Toronto with his wife and an unyielding hunger for the flesh of the living.
Melanie Tem’s work has received the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards and a nomination for the Shirley Jackson Award. She has published numerous short stories, eleven solo novels, two collaborative novels with Nancy Holder, and two with her husband, Steve Rasnic Tem. She is also a published poet, an oral storyteller, and a playwright. Her stories have recently appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Interzone, Crimewave, and HorrorZine, and the anthologies Supernatural Noir, Shivers VI, Portents, Blood and Other Cravings, Werewolves and Shapeshifters, and The Madness of Cthulhu. The Tems live in Denver. They have four children and four granddaughters.
Steve Rasnic Tem published three story collections in 2013: Onion Songs (Chomu Press), Celestial Inventories (ChiZine Press), and Twember (Science Fiction Stories) (NewCon Press). In 2014 these will be followed by a standalone novella for PS Publishing, In the Lovecraft Museum, and his new novel from Solaris Books, Blood Kin.
Jonathan Thomas was born in Providence, R.I., and has been married since 1991 to artist and country singer Angel Dean. Books include Stories from the Big Black House (Radio Void, 1992), The Color over Occam (Arcane Wisdom, 2012), and from Hippocampus Press, Midnight Call (2008), Tempting Providence (2010), and 13 Conjurations (2013). Since 2010, hisshort fiction has appeared in Black Wings I-III (PS Publishingand Titan), A Mountain Walked (Centipede Press), The Madness of Cthulhu (Titan), Nameless, and Weird FictionReview.
Donald Tyson is a Canadian writer of fiction and nonfiction dealing with all aspects of the Western esoteric tradition. He is the author of Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred (2004), Grimoire of the Necronomicon (2008), The Necronomicon Tarot (2007), and The 13 Gates of the Necronomicon (2010), as well as a biography of Lovecraft titled The Dreamworld of H. P. Lovecraft (2010) and the novel Alhazred (2006), all of which were published by Llewellyn Publications.
Searchers After Horror
First Electronic Edition
2015
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