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JACK DOLPHIN is a New York-based freelance writer and filmmaker. His periodic forays into fiction have appeared in Hardboiled and New Mystery magazines and in the anthologies 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories, Steam Powered Love and The Dead Walk Again. His other interests include hiking, urban archaeology, ’60s soul music, and the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team. He has one wife, one daughter and one cat—each a stunningly beautiful example of the type—and sees no reason to add any more to the collection.
Nova Scotia-born LESLIE J. FURLONG lives and works near Nagoya, Japan. Depending on the day, he enjoys good beer, writing, board games, and running.
HORACE B. FYFE (1918-1997) was an American writer whose first science fiction story, “Locked Out”, appeared in Astounding in February 1940, but who became fully active, mainly with further stories in Astounding after army service in World War II. By 1967, when he became inactive, he had published nearly 60 stories. His “Bureau of Slick Tricks” tales, published in Astounding from 1948 to 1952, are typical of John W Campbell Jr’s need for stories in which humans deftly outwit thick-skulled (often bureaucratic) Aliens. In his novel, D-99, which continues the series, Department 99 of the Terran government has the job of finagling citizens out of jams on other planets and flummoxing thicker species.
J.U. GIESY (1877-1948) US physiotherapist, screenwriter, and pulp-magazine writer, author of many stories, most not sf, in Argosy and All-Story Weekly 1914-1934.
EDMOND HAMILTON (1904–1977) was an American author of science fiction stories and novels during the mid-twentieth century. His career as a science fiction writer began with the publication of the short story “The Monster God of Mamurth”, which appeared in the August 1926 issue of Weird Tales. Hamilton quickly became a central member of the remarkable group of Weird Tales writers assembled by editor Farnsworth Wright, that included H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Hamilton would publish 79 works of fiction in Weird Tales between 1926 and 1948, making him one of the most prolific of the magazine’s contributors.
Hamilton became a friend and associate of several Weird Tales veterans, including E. Hoffmann Price and Otis Adelbert Kline; most notably, he struck up a 20-year friendship with close contemporary Jack Williamson, as Williamson records in his 1984 autobiography Wonder’s Child. Through the late 1920s and early 1930s Hamilton wrote for all of the SF pulp magazines then publishing, and contributed horror and thriller stories to various other magazines as well.
In 1946 Hamilton began writing for DC Comics, specializing in stories for their characters Superman and Batman. One of his best known Superman stories was “Superman Under the Red Sun”, which appeared in Action Comics No. 300 in 1963 and which has numerous elements in common with his 1951 novel City At World’s End.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE is a classic author famous for, among other things, The Scarlet Letter.
C.J. HENDERSON created the Jack Hagee hardboiled detective series, both the Teddy London and Piers Knight supernatural investigator series and many more. With 75 books and hundreds upon hundreds of short stories and comics on the shelf, it’s no wonder he’s so well-known. But, what prompted New Mystery Magazine to say “If, as some argue, the hardboiled private eye mystery story is a literary form on a par with the Japanese haiku or the Irish ballad, then Mr. Henderson deserves the mantle of literary master” can only be tied to his remarkable talent. He passed away in 2014.
CARL JACOBI (1908- 1997) was an American author. He wrote short stories in the horror, fantasy, science fiction, and crime genres for the pulp magazine market. Most of his science fiction is space opera, but he delved into more thoughtful realms, as with his story in The Ninth Science Fiction Megapack.
MATTHEW JOHNSON’s work has appeared in places such as Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons and Fantasy Magazine. Irregular Verbs, a collection of his short fiction, is available from ChiZine Press. His website is irregularverbs.ca.
HENRY J. KOSTKOS (1900-1977) wrote a dozen science fiction stories between 1933 and 1940, including a short novel, Earth Rehabilitators, Consolidated.
EDWARD M. LERNER worked in high tech for thirty years, as everything from engineer to senior VP. His novels range from technothrillers, like Small Miracles and Energized, to traditional SF, like the InterstellarNet series, to, collaborating with Larry Niven, the space epic Fleet of Worlds series of Ringworld companion novels.
H.P. LOVECRAFT, surely, needs little introduction today...he is one of the great masters of the horror story and creator of the Cthulhu Mythos.
DAVID VERN REED (1924–1989), who also wrote as CRAIG ELLIS, was born David Levine. He was an American writer, best known for his work on the Batman comic book during the 1950s, in a run that included a revamp of the Batplane in Batman #61 and the introduction of Deadshot in Batman #59. Outside comic books, Vern Reed wrote for several magazines. These included Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Collier’s, Argosy, and Mademoiselle. His work also appeared in pulp magazines like Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures and Astounding Science Fiction. His published novels included Murder in Space.
ED EARL REPP (1901–1979) was an American writer, screenwriter and novelist. His stories appeared in several of the early pulp magazines including Air Wonder Stories, Science Wonder Stories, and Amazing Stories. After World War II, he worked as a screenwriter for several western movies.
CLARK ASHTON SMITH was one of the “big three” writers from Weird Tales (along with H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard). His strange, decadent short stories and verse have thrilled and inspired generations of readers and writers.
ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR STEVENSON (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
LAWRENCE WATT-EVANS is the author of about fifty novels and over a hundred short stories, mostly in the SF, fantasy, and horror fields. He won the Hugo award in 1988 for his short story, “Why I Left Harry’s All-Night Hamburgers,” and was president of the Horror Writers Association for two years. His most recent book is Mind Candy, a collection of essays on pulp culture. His most recent fiction book is Tales of Ethshar, a collection of short stories set in the same universe as The Misenchanted Sword and many of his finest fantasy novels.