by Peter Straub
Joe Hill’s first book of stories, 20th Century Ghosts, received the British Fantasy Award, The International Horror Guild Award, and the Bram Stoker Award for best collection. He is also a 2006 World Fantasy Award winner for his novella “Voluntary Committal,” which appears in the same book. His first critically acclaimed novel, Heart-Shaped Box, was published by William Morrow in the U.S. and Gollancz in the UK.
Ellen Klages was born in Ohio, and now lives in San Francisco. Her story, “Basement Magic,” won the Nebula Award in 2005. Several of her other stories have been on the final ballot for the Nebula and Hugo awards, and have been reprinted in Year’s Best anthologies. A collection of her short fiction, Portable Childhoods, was published in 2007. Her first novel, The Green Glass Sea, based on the short story of the same title, won the Scott O’Dell Award for historical fiction and the Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children’s Literature in 2007. It was also a finalist for the Northern California Book Award (Children’s) and the Locus Award (Best First Novel). In addition to her writing, Ellen serves on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award and collects lead civilians. Her house is full of odd, old toys.
Tia V. Travis is a native of Canada and grew up in the prairie provinces of Manitoba and Alberta. She has made two appearances in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award. Currently she is working on her first novel, a ghost story set in Western Canada. She lives in Northern California with her husband, author Norman Partridge.
In 1988 Dr. Graham Joyce quit an executive job and decamped to the Greek island of Lesbos, there to live in a beach shack with a colony of scorpions and to concentrate on writing. He sold his first novel while still in Greece, and traveled in the Middle East on the proceeds. He is a winner of the World Fantasy Award for his novel The Facts of Life (2004); a four-time winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, for Dark Sister (1992), Requiem (1995), The Tooth Fairy (1996), and Indigo (1999); and twice winner of the French Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire for The Facts of Life and Leningrad Nights (1999). Joyce has also published children’s novels, including TWOC (2005, winner of the Angus Award) and most recently Do the Creepy Thing (2006), currently listed for the Carnegie Award. His short stories and novels have been translated into over twenty languages. He has adapted his own work for Hollywood studios and frequently reviews for the Washington Post. He lives in England and reports on the bad behavior of “the savages”—his wife and two children—on his website blog at www.grahamjoyce.net.
Bestselling author Neil Gaiman has long been one of the top writers in modern comics, as well as a writer of books for readers of all ages. He is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top ten living postmodern writers, and is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama. His New York Times bestselling 2001 novel for adults, American Gods, was awarded the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFX, and Locus awards, was nominated for many other awards, including the World Fantasy Award and the Minnesota Book Award, and appeared on many best-of-year lists. His official website, www.neilgaiman.com, now has more than one million unique visitors each month, and his online journal is syndicated to thousands of blog readers every day. Born and raised in England, Neil Gaiman now lives near Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has somehow reached his forties and still tends to need a haircut.
John Crowley is the recipient of the American Academy and Institute of Letters Award for Literature and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. His critically acclaimed works include Little, Big, the Ægypt Cycle (The Solitudes, Love & Sleep, Dæmonomania, Endless Things), The Translator, and Lord Byron’s Novel: The Evening Land. He teaches fiction writing and screenwriting at Yale University.
Rosalind Palermo Stevenson’s fiction and prose poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies. Her story “The Guest” was awarded the Anne and Henry Paolucci prize for Italian-American writing, and was selected as Italian Americana’s best story of 2005, also to be included in the forthcoming anthology, The Best of Italian Americana in the Last Twenty-Five Years. Her short novella Insect Dreams has been published as a book in the Contemporary Novella series (Rain Mountain Press). She lives in New York City.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Poe’s children : the new horror : an anthology / [edited by] Peter Straub. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Horror tales, American. 2. Horror tales, English. I. Straub, Peter, 1943–
PS648.H6P58 2008
813'.0873808—dc22
2008003013
eISBN: 978-0-385-52846-7
v3.0