Acknowledgements

 

The following people and institutions provided guidance in the research and writing of this story, and to them I extend my thanks: Dr Debbie Miller of the University of Florida horticultural centre in Milton, Fla; Dr Curtis Burney of Nova University; Phillip Kilty; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Biotoxins Program; the National Centre for Environmental Research, Red Tide Update web site; professors Kris Herzog and Charles Gramlich; and artist Dave Dorman.

About The Author

 

Del Stone Jr is an SF/dark fiction writer. His work has appeared in Amazing Stories; Penguin-Putnam’s Live Without a Net; Bantam’s Full Spectrum; The Year’s Best Horror Stories XXII; Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine; the Pocket Books anthology More Phobias; numerous Barnes & Noble anthologies; the HWA anthology Psychos; and other venues like Blood Muse, and Sex Macabre. Del’s comic book debut was in Clive Barker’s Hellraiser from Marvel/Epic. He’s also appeared in books published by Dark Horse, Image, and Penthouse Comix. Del’s novel, Dead Heat, won the International Horror Guild’s award and was a runnerup for the Bram Stoker Award. He has had stories in anthologies that have won the World Fantasy Award and Stoker Award. His novella Black Tide has been optioned for a film.

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