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Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over thirty novels and numerous short stories, articles, essays, screenplays, and comic book scripts. He has received numerous awards. Among them The Edgar Award, Grinzani Cavour Prize For Literature, nine Bram Stoker Awards, including Lifetime Achievement, and he has received the Grandmaster award from the Horror Writers Association. He has been awarded the British Fantasy Award, a Golden Lion Award for his contributions to the legacy of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Mid South Award for Best Novel, two New York Times Notable Books, and others. His novella “Bubba Hotep” was made into a film starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis, directed by Don Coscarelli. His short story “Christmas with the Dead” has been adapted into film, screenplay by Keith Lansdale, directed by Terrill Lee Lankford, and produced by Joe and Karen Lansdale. He lives and writes in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Will Ludwigsen’s work has appeared in a number of magazines including Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Asimov’s, Cemetery Dance, Weird Tales, and Strange Horizons. He recently released his second collection of short stories, In Search Of and Others. He resides in the very strange state of Florida.
Distinguished author Robert McCammon has published in many genres, first in well-received and New York Times-bestselling horror novels and now in-depth historical thrillers. His latest, I Travel By Night, releases this year from Subterranean Press.
Robert McVey attended Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard University, and New York University. He is a psychotherapist in private practice in New York. He is the author of the flash short story collection We Have Pie.
Christine Morgan works the overnight shift in a psychiatric facility and divides her writing time among many genres. A lifelong reader, she also writes, reviews, beta-reads, and occasionally edits. She has over a dozen novels in print and more due out soon. Her stories have appeared in several anthologies, been nominated for Origins Awards, and given Honorable Mention in two volumes of Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.
An American author of horror and mystery fiction, Norman Partridge is best known for two detective novels about retired boxer Jack Baddalach, Saguaro Riptide and The Ten Ounce Siesta. He is also the author of the book The Crow: Wicked Prayer, which was adapted in 2005 into a movie in that franchise. His short stories are collected in the volumes Mr. Fox and Other Feral Tales, Bad Intentions, and The Man with the Barbed Wire Fists.
Gary Raisor wrote the horror novels Less Than Human, Graven Images, and Sinister Purposes, Empty Places, all to great reviews and sold-out print-runs, which, as any writer will tell you, is the true measure of writing success (ha!). Raisor has also written countless short stories, starting back in the ’80s with Night Cry magazine and The Horror Show, working his way into a great many “Best of” anthologies.
Michael Reaves has been a freelance fiction writer for over thirty years. Among other things, he’s written for just about all the action-adventure cartoons your eyeballs devoured when you were a kid. He’s also written a dozen or so novels (many set in the Star Wars universe), short stories, comics, computer games, graphic novels, and movies. He’s won an Emmy and a Howie, and been nominated for a Hugo, a Nebula, a British Fantasy Award, and a second Emmy. Currently he’s producing a 1940s-style vampire noir movie starring Neil Gaiman.
A retired physician, John Schoftstall has sold several stories to Strange Horizons and the Fortean Bureau. An aficionado of anime and baked goods, he resides in Pennsylvania.
British novelist and short story writer Michael Marshall Smith has won the British Fantasy Award multiple times as well as the Philip K. Dick Award. 2013 will see the release of a new novel and short story collection. Smith has also worked extensively as a screenwriter, writing for clients in Los Angeles and London. He lives in Santa Cruz, California, with his wife and son.
When kindergarten turned out to be a stupefyingly banal disappointment for Peter Straub, he took matters into his own hands and taught himself to read by memorizing his comic books and reciting them over and over to other neighborhood children on the front steps until he could recognize the words. Soon he had earned a reputation as an ace storyteller, in demand around campfires and in back yards on summer evenings. Not much has changed—he remains one of the more celebrated authors living today for novels like Floating Dragon, Ghost Story, Koko, and Lost Boy, Lost Girl, among many other tales. He is a member of HWA, MWA, PEN and the Adams Round Table, and though he is without “hobbies,” remains intensely interested in jazz, as well as opera and other forms of classical music.
Lisa Tuttle is an American-born science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. She has published over a dozen novels (including Lost Futures, nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke and James Tiptree, Jr. Awards), five short story collections, and several non-fiction titles, including a reference book, Encyclopedia of Feminism. She has also edited several anthologies and reviewed books for various publications. She has been living in the United Kingdom since 1981.
Halli Villegas is the author of three collections of poetry (Red Promises, In the Silence Absence Makes, and The Human Cannonball), a book of short ghost stories (The Hairwreath and Other Stories), and was the co-editor of the anthologies Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing and In The Dark: Tales of the Supernatural. Her work has appeared in many anthologies including Chilling Tales 2, The White Collar Anthology, and Girls Who Bite Back. She has also appeared in numerous magazines such as CNQ, The LRC, and Variety Crossings. Halli has received funding for her writing through grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.
The Teacher’s Pet
Steve Berman has edited over fifteen anthologies, including quite a few for young adults who have managed to survive the rigors of childhood. His own novel, Vintage: A Ghost Story, was a finalist for the Andre Norton Award. He lives in New Jersey, the only state in the Union that has an official devil. He regularly spoils rotten his ginger tabby, Daulton, who has bitten and clawed him on occasion.
Publication History
“Second Grade” copyright © 2011 by Charles Antin. Originally published in Unwrap #1. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“Cockroach” copyright © 2011 by Dale Bailey. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1998. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“The Queen of Knives” copyright © 2013 by Georgina Bruce. Original to this volume.
“Respects” copyright © 2009 by Ramsey Campbell. Originally appeared in British Invasion (Cemetery Dance). Reprinted with permission by the author.
“The Perfect Dinner Party” copyright © 2011 by Cassandra Clare & Holly Black. Originally appeared in Teeth (ed. by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, HarperCollins). Reprinted with permission by the authors.
“The Disappearance of James H___” copyright © 2005 by Hal Duncan. Originally appeared in Strange Horizons, June 13, 2005. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“By the Mark” copyright © 2004 by Gemma Files. Originally appeared in The Worm in Every Heart. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“Gaslight” copyright © 2012 by Jeffrey Ford. Originally appeared in The Revelator, Vol. 136, No. 1. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“If Damon Comes” copyright © 1978 Charles L. Grant. First published in The Year’s Best Horror Stories, Series VI, edited by Gerald W. Page. DAW Books, 1978. Reprinted with permission by the author’s estate.
“You Deserve” copyright © 2013 by Alex Jeffers. Original to this volume.
“I Was a Teenage Slasher Victim” copyright © 2012 by Stephen Graham Jones. First appeared on Juked, 10.25.2012. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“Princess of the Night” copyright © 2009 by Michael Kelly. Originally appeared in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 21. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“Children of the Corn” copyright © 1977 by Stephen King. First published in Penthouse, March 1977. Reprinted with permission by Random House Bertelsmann.
“Duck H
unt” copyright © 1986 by Joe R. Lansdale. Originally appeared in After Midnight. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“The Choir” copyright © 2013 by Joel D. Lane. Original to this volume.
“Endless Encore” copyright © 2012 by Will Ludwigsen. Originally appeared on the author’s blog. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“Yellowjacket Summer” copyright © 1986 by Robert R. McCammon. Originally appeared in Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, October 1986. Reprinted with permission by the author and Open Road.
“Melanie Klein Said” copyright © 2012 by Robert McVey. Originally appeared in We Have Pie. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“The Naughty List” Copyright © 2013 by Christine Morgan. Original to this volume.
“Treats” copyright © 1990 by Norman Partridge. Originally appeared in The Blood Review, October 1990. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“Making Friends” copyright © 1985 by Gary Raisor. Originally appeared in The Horror Show, Summer 1985. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“Make Believe” copyright © 2010 by Michael Reaves. Originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2010. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“My Name Is Leejun” copyright © 2013 by John Schoffstall. Original to this volume.
“The Stuff that Goes on in Their Heads” copyright © 2012 by Michael Marshall Smith. Originally appeared in Swallowed by the Cracks. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“Blue Rose” copyright © 1985 by Peter Straub. Originally appeared in the chapbook “Blue Rose.” Reprinted with permission by the author.
“The Horse Lord” copyright © 1977 by Lisa Tuttle. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1977. Reprinted with permission by the author.
“The Family” copyright © 2010 by Halli Villegas. First published in The Hair Wreath and Other Stories. Reprinted with permission by the author.