by Ellen Datlow
John Langan is the author of two novels, The Fisherman and House of Windows, and two collections, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies and Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters.
With Paul Tremblay, he co-edited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters. One of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, he serves on its Advisory Board. Currently, he reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine. Forthcoming is a new collection, Sefira and Other Betrayals. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife and younger son.
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.
McGuire 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, she enjoys Disney Parks, horror movies, and looking winsomely at Marvel editorial as she tries to convince them to let her write for the X-Men. Keep up with McGuire at 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.
Michael Marshall Smith is a novelist and screenwriter. He has published over eighty short stories and four novels: Only Forward, Spares, One of Us, and The Servants—winning the Philip K. Dick, International Horror Guild, and August Derleth awards, along with the Prix Bob Morane in France. He has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction four times, more than any other author. A new novel—Hannah Green and her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence—was published in July 2017.
Writing as Michael Marshall he has also published seven internationally bestselling thrillers, including The Straw Men series (currently in TV development), The Intruders—a BBCAmerica series in 2014 starring John Simm and Mira Sorvino—and Killer Move. His most recent novel is We Are Here.
He lives in Santa Cruz, California, with his wife, son, and two cats.
Steve Rasnic Tem’s last novel, Blood Kin, won the Bram Stoker Award. His new novel, UBO, is a dark science fictional tale about violence and its origins, featuring such historical viewpoint characters as Jack the Ripper, Stalin, and Heinrich Himmler. He is also a past winner of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards. Recently, a collection of the best of his uncollected horror—Out of the Dark: A Storybook of Horrors—was published by Centipede Press. A handbook on writing, Yours To Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing, written with his late wife, Melanie, is also out from Apex Books. In the Fall of 2018 Hex Publishers will bring out his middle-grade Halloween novel, The Mask Shop of Doctor Blaack.
Visit the Tem home on the web at: m-s-tem.com.
Lee Thomas is the two-time Lambda Literary Award- and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Stained, The Dust of Wonderland, The German, Torn, Like Light for Flies, and Down on Your Knees, among others. His work has been translated into multiple languages and has been optioned for film. Lee lives in Austin, Texas, with his husband, John.
A. C. Wise’s fiction has appeared in publications such as Clarkesworld, Tor.com, The Best Horror of the Year, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, among other places. She has two collections published by Lethe Press, The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves the World Again, and The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories, which was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. In addition to her fiction, she contributes a monthly review column to Apex Magazine. Visit her online at acwise.net.
Alyssa Wong lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and really, really likes crows. Her story “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” won the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, and she was a finalist for the 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award.
Her work has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, and Tor.com, among others. Alyssa can be found on Twitter as @crashwong.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for almost forty years. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited about ninety science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies, including the series The Best Horror of the Year, Fearful Symmetries, The Doll Collection, The Monstrous, Children of Lovecraft, Black Feathers, and Mad Hatters and March Hares.
Forthcoming is The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories.
She’s won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards, Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for “outstanding contribution to the genre,” was honored with the Life Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association, in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career, and the Life Achievement Award by the World Fantasy Convention.
She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at datlow.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter as @EllenDatlow.