by Joshi, S. T
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Kevin J. Anderson is the author of over 120 books, 51 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. In addition to his numerous Star Wars and Dune novels (written with Brian Herbert), he has written the grand SF epic The Saga of Seven Suns (2002–08), the nautical fantasy trilogy Terra Incognita (Orbit, 2009–11), steampunk Captain Nemo (Titan, 2002) and The Martian War (Titan, 2005), and Clockwork Angels (ECW, 2012), and the humorous horror Dan Shamble, Zombie PI series (Kensington, 2012f.).
Laird Barron is the author of several books, including The Imago Sequence (Night Shade, 2007), Occultation (Night Shade, 2010), and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All (Night Shade, 2013). His first novel, The Croning, was published by Night Shade in 2012. His work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies. An expatriate Alaskan, Barron currently resides in upstate New York.
Erik Bear is a writer of fictions. His works include The Mongoliad (47North, 2012) and Jurassic Park: Dangerous Games (IDW, 2011). He lives in Seattle, where it is often dark and the plants grow everywhere.
Greg Bear is a prolific and highly regarded science fiction writer, author of such works as The Wind from a Burning Woman (Arkham House, 1983), The Forge of God (Tor, 1987), Darwin’s Radio (HarperCollins UK, 1999), City at the End of Time (Gollancz, 2008), and Sleepside: The Collected Fantasies (ibooks, 2004). He has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Endeavour Awards.
Jason C. Eckhardt is a self-taught illustrator and writer. His artwork has been published in Dell Magazines, Necronomicon Press, and elsewhere. His fiction has appeared in Black Wings II (PS Publishing, 2012) and Weird Fiction Review; his nonfiction writings in Lovecraft Studies and Studies in Weird Fiction. Eckhardt lives in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Alan Dean Foster’s first published story appeared in the Arkham Collector (Summer 1971). He has written voluminously in the fields of science fiction and fantasy, including many Star Trek and Star Wars. Among his more recent works are Exceptions to Reality (Del Rey, 2008) and The Sum of Her Parts (Del Rey, 2012). He has received the Grand Master Award from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.
Cody Goodfellow has written three novels—Radiant Dawn (Perilous Press, 2000), Ravenus Dusk (Perilous Press, 2003), and Perfect Union (Swallowdown Press, 2010)—and two collections—Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars (Swallowdown Press, 2009) and All-Monster Action—and has cowritten Jake’s Wake (Leisure, 2008) and Spore (Leisure, 2010) with John Skipp. His short fiction has appeared in The Book of Cthulhu 2, A Season in Carcosa, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 3, and The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade. He lives in Los Angeles.
Karen Haber is a Hugo-nominated editor and author of nine novels. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many anthologies. She reviews art books for Locus magazine. Her recent nonfiction work includes Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy Art (Rockport, 2010). In 2002 she was nominated for a Hugo Award and a Locus Award for Meditations on Middle Earth (St. Martin’s Press, 2001).
Mark Howard Jones has had dozens of short stories published on both sides of the Atlantic. His novella “The Garden of Doubt on the Island of Shadows” drew praise from Ray Bradbury. He is also the author of two collections, Songs from Spider Street (Screaming Dreams, 2010) and Brightest Black (Pendragon Press, 2013). He lives in Cardiff, the capital of Wales.
Nancy Kilpatrick is an award-winning scream-queen author who has published 18 novels, about 200 short stories, and edited 12 anthologies. She also published the nonfiction book The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined (St. Martin’s Press). Her two most recent titles are (as editor) the anthology Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper (2012) and her sixth collection of short stories, Vampyric Variations (2012), both from Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. She is best known for her four-book Power of the Blood vampire world (Pocket, 1996–2000).
Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, and freelancer for Marvel Comics. His novels include Patient Zero (Gollancz, 2009), Extinction Machine (St. Martin’s Press, 2013), Fire and Ash (Simon & Schusters, 2013), and many others. His award-winning teen novel, Rot & Ruin (Simon & Schusters, 2010), is now in development for film. Since 1978 he has sold more than 1200 magazine feature articles and 3000 columns, plays, greeting cards, song lyrics, and poetry. He is the founder of the Writers Coffeehouse and co-founder of The Liars Club. Maberry lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Sara.
William F. Nolan, best known for creating Logan’s Run (1967; with George Clayton Johnson) and its sequels, has had his work showcased in 350 textbooks and anthologies. He has 90 books to his credit, with several more in the works. He has also had 200 stories and 750 nonfiction pieces printed since 1952. He has received a lifetime achievement award from the Horror Writers Association and a “living legend” award from the International Horror Guild.
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.
Steve Rasnic Tem’s 2013 projects include: Onion Songs, a collection of offbeat stories (Chomu Press); Celestial Inventories, a collection of contemporary slipstream dark fantasy (ChiZine); and Twember, his first collection of all science fiction stories (NewCon Press). His novella, In the Lovecraft Museum, was published in 2014 by PS Publishing.
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.
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