HOLLY PHILLIPS is the author of the award-winning collection In the Palace of Repose as well as innumerable short stories published in markets as diverse as The New Quarterly and Asimov’s Science Fiction. She lives on a big island off Canada ’s western coast and is currently engaged in a heroic struggle to keep her website ([http://www.hollyphillips.com] www.hollyphillips.com) up to date even as she works on her newest novel. Holly’s newest dark fantasy The Engine’s Child was published by Del Rey in November 2008. Keep your eyes peeled for the gorgeous cover art by David Ho!
MIKE RESNICK is, according to Locus, the most awarded short fiction writer, living or dead, in science fiction history. He is the author of fifty-five novels, more than two hundred short stories, and two screenplays, and is the editor of fifty anthologies. He is currently the executive editor of Jim Baen’s Universe. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages.
LISA TUTTLE is a native Texan (born and raised in Houston) who has been an honorary Brit for more than twenty-five years. She presently lives in a remote, rural region of Scotland, so urban settings provide her an enjoyable escape into fantasy. Over the course of her career she’s sold around one hundred short stories and seven novels, most recently the contemporary fantasies The Mysteries and The Silver Bough. Some of her short stories may be found in A Nest of Nightmares, A Spaceship Built of Stone and Other Stories, Memories of the Body: Tales of Desire and Transformation, and Ghosts and Other Lovers. She has edited Skin of the Soul: New Horror Stories by Women and has also written several children’s books.
CARRIE VAUGHN survived her air force brat childhood and managed to put down roots in Colorado. She lives in Boulder with her dog, Lily, and too many hobbies. A graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, she’s had short stories published in such magazines as Realms of Fantasy and Weird Tales. Most of her work over the last couple of years has gone into her series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk radio show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. These include Kitty and the Midnight Hour, Kitty and the Silver Bullet, Kitty Goes to Washington, and Kitty Takes a Holiday.
IAN WATSON taught literature in Tanzania and Japan, then futurology at an art school in Birmingham, UK, before becoming a full-time writer thirty-three years ago, after his first novel, The Embedding, won a couple of prizes. Thus he was encouraged onto the slippery slope resulting so far in about thirty novels and almost a dozen story collections, variously SF, fantasy, and horror. A year’s work with Stanley Kubrick produced the screen story for A.I. Artificial Intelligence, directed by Steven Spielberg. Space Marine, one of four ground-breaking future-Gothic novels that Ian wrote for the Warhammer forty thousand milieu, changes hands on eBay for such large sums that it’s banned by its own publisher from ever being reprinted. Recently, Ian completed a book of wild and witty stories in collaboration with the Italian surrealist Robert Quaglia, with whom he stayed in Romania to experience “Weredog of Bucharest.” Ian’s website is at [http://www.ianwatson.info] www.ianwatson.info, though he and his Spanish translator, Luisa, and his Hungarian publisher, Peter, also maintain a website of startling interest ([http://www.ajeno.wired.hu] www.ajeno.wired.hu) to honor the as yet almost unknown Colombian poet of erotic anguish Miguel Ajeno.
Upon his return from Korea, GENE WOLFE earned a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Houston. He was a working engineer for seventeen years and an editor at an engineering magazine for eleven more. Many of his early stories appeared in Damon Knight’s original anthology series Orbit. Wolfe has been writing full-time since 1984. His titles include The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Peace, The Shadow of the Torturer, Soldier of the Mist, Nightside, The Long Sun, The Knight, The Wizard, Pirate Freedom, and An Evil Guest. He and Rosemary have been married for more than fifty years; they have four children and three grandchildren.
CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO has been a professional writer for forty years and has sold eighty-five books and more than ninety works of short fiction, essays, and reviews. She also composes serious music. She lives in her hometown- Berkeley, California -with three autocratic cats. In 2003, the World Horror Society presented her with a Grand Master Award; the International Horror Guild honored her with a Living Legend Award in 2006. She is probably best known for her series of novels about the vampire the Comte de Saint-Germain.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
DARRELL SCHWEITZER co-edited Weird Tales magazine for nineteen years and co-edited (with Martin H. Greenberg) the successful 2007 anthology The Secret History of Vampires. He was also editor of Discovering H. P. Lovecraft, The Thomas Ligotti Reader, The Neil Gaiman Reader, and Weird Trails: the Magazine of Supernatural Cowboy Stories. As author he has published three novels, The White Isle, The Shattered Goddess, and The Mask of the Sorcerer. His nearly three hundred published stories have appeared in Postscripts, Cemetery Dance, Interzone, Twilight Zone Magazine, Amazing Stories, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, among others. His story collections include Refugees from an Imaginary Country, Nightscapes (which contains another Kvetchula story), and Necromancies and Netherworlds (with Jason Van Hollander). He has also published essays and interviews and is an award-winning poet. His most recent book is a collection of verse, Ghosts of Past and Future. He has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award four times and won it once. Despite all this, he could not be restrained from sneaking a ghastly lycanthropic limerick into this book, but we have decided to hide it here in the bio-notes where it will do the least harm:
MARTIN H. GREENBERG is the CEP of Tekno Books and its predecessor companies, now the largest book developer of commercial fiction and nonfiction in the world, with more than two thousand published books that have been translated into thirty-three languages. He is the recipient of an unprecedented three Lifetime Achievement Awards in the Science Fiction, Supernatural Horror, and Mystery genres-the Milford Award in Science Fiction, the Bram Stoker Award in Horror, and the Ellery Queen Award, respectively-and is the only person in publishing history to have received all three awards.
