“Some food and drink,” she said and looked at her ten pink toes, wiggling in the condensation-streaked light of Epiphany. “And maybe even some dancing.”
Contributors
Gene O’Neill is best known as a multi-award nominated writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction. O’Neill's professional writing career began after completing the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 1979. Since that time, over 100 of his works have been published. His short story work has appeared in Cemetery Dance Magazine, Twilight Zone Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many more.
John Langan received his M.A. from SUNY New Paltz and his M.Phil. from the CUNY Graduate Center. His stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and anthologies including The Living Dead (Night Shade 2008), Poe (Solaris 2009), By Blood We Live (Night Shade 2009), Supernatural Noir (Dark Horse 2011), Blood and Other Cravings (Tor 2011), and Ghosts by Gaslight (Harper Collins 2011). His first collection Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters was published in 2008; his first novel House of Windows appeared the following year. With Paul Tremblay, he has co-edited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monster Stories (Prime 2011). His essays on horror writers have appeared in Fantasy Commentator, The Internet Review of Science Fiction, The Lovecraft Annual, Lovecraft Studies, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and The Weird Fiction Review. He has served as a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards. He is an adjunct instructor at SUNY New Paltz, where he teaches creative writing and gothic fiction.
Jodi Renée Lester is a writer and editor. Her short story "The Guixi Sisters" appeared in Midnight Walk: 14 Original Tales of Terror and Suspense, which won the Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Anthology and a nomination for the Bram Stoker Award. She is currently working on a novel as well as several editing projects, while continuing to write short fiction. Jodi had the honor of studying with Dennis Etchison and is a member of the Horror Writers Association. She grew up in Southern California and now lives in South Carolina with her husband Mike and their three cats Bruno, Mathias, and Klaus. She can be followed on Goodreads at www.goodreads.com/author/show/2970826.Jodi_Renee_Lester.
K. H. Vaughan is a refugee from academia with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. In his other life he taught, published, and practiced in various settings, with particular interest in decision theory, forensic psychology, psychopathology, and methodology. He lives with his wife and three children in New England. Information on upcoming releases can be found at www.khvaughan.com.
R. Christophe Ryber lives in Hardwick, Vermont, where in addition to penning short fiction and poetry, he tutors English and studies writing and literature at a local college.
Robert Harkess shares his writing time with his real-world job in a major ISP in the U.K. He lives just north of London with a wonderful wife and two attention-seeking furdragons and blogs at www.rbharkess.co.uk.
S. J. Hirons has been previously been published in Clockwork Phoenix 3 (Norilana Books), Subtle Edens: An Anthology of Slipstream Fiction (Elastic Press), Daily Science Fiction, SFX magazine’s Pulp Idol 2006 anthology, 52 Stitches (Strange Publications), Title Goes Here magazine (Issue #1, Fall 2009), A Fly In Amber, Farrago’s Wainscot, Pantechnicon Online and The Absent Willow Review. He has upcoming stories in The Red Penny Papers and at faepublishing.com and some critical writing appearing in Interfictions Zero from the Interstitial Arts Foundation.
David W. Landrum lives and writes in western Michigan. His speculative fiction has appeared in scores of journals and anthologies, including Dark Distortions, At First Bite, Midnight Thirsts, Roar and Thunder, The Horror Zine, and Danse Macabre. His novelette The Gallery is available from Amazon.com.
David Farland is an award-winning New York Times bestselling author in science fiction and fantasy, with nearly 50 books in print, published in over 20 languages. As a novelist he has worked with such major franchises as Star Wars and The Mummy. As a video game designer he worked on games such as the #1 international best-seller Starcraft: Brood War and Xena. Currently, Dave is finishing up the last book in his Runelords series while he prepares to take the series to Hollywood. His latest novel Nightingale begins a new young adult fantasy series, has been garnering rave reviews, and has won five awards so far this year.
Jeff Chapman writes software by day and speculative fiction when he should be sleeping. Tales of Woe and Wonder, available in the Amazon Kindle store, collects nine of his fantasy stories. He lives with his wife, children, and cat in a house with more books than bookshelf space. You can find him musing about words and fiction at www.jeffchapmanwriter.blogspot.com.
Rhys Hughes was born in 1966 and began writing fiction from a young age. None of his early efforts saw print, mainly because he never submitted them anywhere or even showed them to anyone else. Those stories have all been lost. Eventually he began sending his work to editors. His first published story was called “An Ideal Vocation” and it appeared in an obscure anthology in 1992. Encouraged by this “success”, he then proceeded to bombard the British small press with hundreds of tales for almost two decades. His first book, the now legendary Worming the Harpy, was published by Tartarus Press in 1995. He has published many volumes since then, chiefly collections of short stories but also a few novels, in several languages.
Howard Phillips is a veteran with multiple combat deployments afflicted with terminal wanderlust, a perpetual student raised by books, and a professional liar, that is, a fiction writer.
Fel Kian’s first novel Indigo Eyes, a gothic fantasy, was published by Immanion Press. He has been indulging in imaginative fiction since he learned to read, and only stops writing these days to help raise his baby girl. A sample of his work and other information can be found on his website, www.fel-kian.com.
John “JAM” Arthur Miller once owned an online publication. He once had some notoriety within a few writing circles. Then he died. In fact, he’s writing this bio now as one of the living dead. While lying to rest his 70+ publishing credits and much hubris, he currently rejoices in his new life of freedom, caring little about a world that looks upon him as a zombie born anew from arcane faith. Currently he is training to be a minister.
Dy Loveday has a M.A. in creative writing from Adelaide University and she is a graduate of the Odyssey Science Fiction Fantasy Workshop 2012.
J. S. Reinhardt writes across the horror genre, with work appealing to everyone from young adults to those with an affinity for the more extreme and explicit situations. Stay abreast of his latest works by visiting his website www.jsreinhardt.com.
Bennie L. Newsome is a writer and graphic designer from Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author and cover illustrator of The BoogeyMann (YA horror/humor), and the author of Life is no Fairytale (YA romance/humor). In addition to his two novels, Bennie has been published in several anthologies; including Hallmark’s Thanks, Mom which is scheduled for publication in May of 2013. For more information, check out Bennie's website at www.bnewsome.yolasite.com.
W. H. Pugmire has been writing Lovecraftian weird fiction since 1972, making his first sale to Space & Time magazine. He devoted himself to writing for the small horror magazines until Jeffrey Thomas published his first collection in 1997. His newest books include The Strange Dark One, Uncommon Places, Some Unknown Gulf of Night, and Gathered Dust and Others. Bohemians of Sesqua Valley and Encounters with Enoch Coffin will appear in limited hardcover editions in 2013. He is presently attempting to write his first novel, a work inspired by August Derleth's The Lurker at the Threshold. Pugmire dreams in Seattle.
Josh Reynolds is a freelance writer of moderate skill and exceptional confidence. He has written a bit, and some of it was even published. For money. By real people. His work has appeared in anthologies such as Miskatonic River Press’ Horror for the Holidays, and in periodicals such as Innsmouth Magazine and Lovecraft eZine.
Mark Valentine’s stories have appeared most recently in Seventeen Stories (2013) and Selected Stories (2012), both from the Swan River Press, and his ta
les of occult detectives can be found in Herald of the Hidden (2013) and The Collected Connoisseur (2010, with John Howard), both from Tartarus Press. He has written biographies of the Welsh mystic and supernatural fiction author Arthur Machen and the diplomat and fantasist Sarban. He edits Wormwood, a journal of the literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent. ‘Goat Songs’ reflects his love of old vinyl records, particularly the obscurer albums of the Seventies by such artists as Titus Groan and Comus. He was briefly in a progressive rock group, Ruins, before getting involved in the Eighties indie tape scene, with The Mystic Umbrellas, Radio Dromedary and a recording of a lighthouse foghorn.
Iain Grant is an author of short stories and novels, ranging from contemporary literature to fantasy and horror. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. His contribution to the critically acclaimed Roads Ahead anthology from Tindall Street Press was singly praised by the Guardian newspaper (September 2009). He is perhaps best known for the comic novel Clovenhoof, co-written with Heide Goody. The follow-up novel (which follows the continuing adventures of the earthbound Satan and Archangel Michael) will be published by Pigeon Park Press in late 2013. Iain's first solo novel A Gateway Made Of Bone, a sprawling SF adventure, was published in 2012. This has been followed by the Birmingham-based thriller In Other Hands, and the mind-bending murder mystery IAMNOWHERE.
About the Editor
Aaron J. French (a.k.a. A. J. French) is currently a book editor for JournalStone Publishing and the Editor-in-Chief for Dark Discoveries magazine—a professional, internationally distributed print magazine specializing in dark fiction, currently on its tenth year of continuous publication and distribution. He has worked with and edited such authors as David Liss, Norman Partridge, Gary A. Braunbeck, Thomas Ligotti, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jonathan Maberry, F. Paul Wilson, Glen Hirshberg, John Shirley, and many others. In 2011 he edited Monk Punk, an anthology of monk-themed speculative fiction and The Shadow of the Unknown, an anthology of nü-Lovecraftian fiction. Aaron also served as co-editor for The Lovecraft eZine for several months in 2012.
Aaron’s fiction has appeared in many publications including Dark Discoveries, Black Ink Horror, Something Wicked, After Death…, Beware the Dark, Chiral Mad, The Lovecraft eZine, and others. His zombie collection Up From Soil Fresh was published by Hazardous Press in 2013. Also in 2013 “The Order,” Aaron’s occult thriller novella about a Lovecraftian secret society, was published in the Dreaming in Darkness collection. He is currently an active member of the Horror Writers Association. His collection of mystical fiction, Aberrations of Reality, was published in 2014 by Crowded Quarantine Productions.
Aaron is pursuing a Religious Studies degree from the University of Arizona. His nonfiction articles on Thomas Ligotti, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Karl Edward Wagner have appeared in Dark Discoveries magazine, while his online column “Letters from the Edge,” focusing on the occult, spirituality, rogue scholarship, esotericism, and speculative fiction, is featured regularly on the Nameless Digest website. His academic papers “Toward Christian Renewal” and “Journeys of the Soul in the Afterlife: Egyptian Books of the Afterlife and Greek Orphic Mysteries” were published in the peer-reviewed journal The Esoteric Quarterly. He is currently a member of the ESSWE, the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.
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