ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dale Bailey is the author of eight books, including In the Night Wood, The End of the End of Everything, and The Subterranean Season. His short fiction has won the Shirley Jackson Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and has been nominated for the Nebula and Bram Stoker awards. He lives in North Carolina with his family.
“The Donner Party” was originally published in the The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January/February.
Laird Barron spent his early years in Alaska. He is the author of several books, including The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, and Swift to Chase, and Blood Standard. His work has also appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Barron currently resides in the Rondout Valley writing stories about the evil that men do.
“Girls Without Their Faces On” was originally published in Ashes and Entropy edited by Robert S. Wilson.
Anne Billson is a writer, film critic, and international cat-sitter whose books include Billson Film Database, Cats on Film, and four horror novels: Suckers, Stiff Lips, The Ex, and The Coming Thing. She lives in Belgium.
“I Remember Nothing” was originally published in We Were Strangers: Stories Inspired by Unknown Pleasures edited by Richard V. Hirst.
Siobhan Carroll is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware where she teaches graduate courses on 19th Century Ocean Cultures, SF and Ecology, and Literatures of Empire. A writer as well as a critic of speculative fiction, she contributes stories to magazines like Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, and Asimov’s Science Fiction, and to anthologies like Children of Lovecraft and Fearful Symmetries. For more of Siobhan Carroll’s fiction, see voncarr-siobhan-carroll.blogspot.com
“Haunt” was originally published in The Devil and the Deep edited by Ellen Datlow.
Adam-Troy Castro’s twenty-seven books include the Andrea Cort trilogy and six middle-grade novels about the dimension-spanning adventures of young Gustav Gloom. January 2019 saw a release of his audio collection, And Other Stories (Skyboat Media). Adam’s works have won the Philip K. Dick Award and Japan’s Seiun Award, and have been nominated for eight Nebulas, three Stokers, two Hugos, and, internationally, the Ignotus (Spain), the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire (France), and the Kurd-Laßwitz Preis (Germany). Adam lives in Florida with his wife Judi and a rotating collection of cats.
“Red Rain” was originally published in Nightmare #68, June.
Ray Cluley is a British Fantasy Award winner (Best Short Story) with work published in various magazines and anthologies. He has been translated into French, Polish, Hungarian, and Chinese. His collection, Probably Monsters, was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award and is available from ChiZine Publications. His novella, Water For Drowning, was published by This is Horror and was also shortlisted. Ray’s second collection is currently looking for a home while he works on two novels, one for himself and another for a gaming company. He blogs occasionally at probably monsters.wordpress.com.
“Painted Wolves” was originally published in In Dog We Trust edited by Anthony Cowin.
Bill Davidson is a Scottish writer of mainly horror and fantasy, living in England. Three years ago, he left a successful career in local government to concentrate on writing something more exciting than strategies and reports. In that time, he has written three novels, as yet unpublished, and placed short stories with around thirty high quality publications, mainly in the US and UK. Find him on billdavidsonwriting.com or @bill_davidson57.
“A Brief Moment of Rage” was originally published in Thrilling Endless Apocalypse Short Stories edited by Josie Mitchell.
Kristi DeMeester is the author of the novel, Beneath, and Everything That’s Underneath, a short fiction collection. Her short fiction has appeared in approximately forty magazines such as Pseudopod, Black Static, Fairy Tale Review, and others, and have been reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s The Year’s Best Horror Volume Nine, Stephen Jones’ Best New Horror, and in Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volumes 1, 3, and 5. In her spare time, she alternates between telling people how to pronounce her last name and how to spell her first. She has recently finished the edits to her second novel. Find her online at kristidemeester.com.
“Milkteeth” was originally published in Shimmer #44, July, 2018.
“Golden Sun” was originally published in Chiral Mad 4 edited by Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder.
Born in England and raised in Toronto, Canada, Gemma Files has been a journalist, teacher, film critic and an award-winning horror author for almost thirty years. She has published four novels, a story-cycle, three collections of short fiction, and three collections of speculative poetry; her most recent novel, Experimental Film, won both the 2015 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel and the 2016 Sunburst Award for Best Novel (Adult Category). She is currently working on her next book.
“Thin Cold Hands” was originally published in Lamplight Volume 6 Issue 4.
Orrin Grey is a writer, editor, and amateur film scholar specializing in stories about monsters, ghosts, and sometimes the ghosts of monsters. He’s the author of several collections of spooky stories, as well as a couple of volumes on vintage horror cinema, and his film writing has appeared online in places like Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, and Unwinnable, to name a few. You can follow him on social media or check out his website at orringrey.com.
“No Exit” was originally published in Lost Highways: Dark Fictions From the Road edited by D. Alexander Ward.
Sam Hicks lives in southeast London. “Back Along the Old Track,” her first published short story, was originally published in The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror edited by David T. Neal and Christine M. Scott.
Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Strange Weather, NOS4A2, and others. He won the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his ongoing comic book, Locke & Key, created with artist Gabriel Rodriguez. He insists he quite enjoys flying.
“You Are Released” was originally published in Flight or Fright, edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent.
Carly Holmes lives on the west coast of Wales, UK, and is an award-winning writer, with numerous publications in journals and anthologies for her short prose, including Ambit, The Ghastling, and Black Static.
Her debut novel, The Scrapbook, was shortlisted for the International Rubery Book Award in 2015.
An Associate Editor and Director with Parthian Books, Carly also runs writing workshops.
“Sleep” was originally published in Figurehead.
John Langan is the author of two novels and three collections of stories. He lives in the Mid-Hudson Valley with his wife and younger son.
“Haak” was originally published in New Fears 2 edited by Mark Morris.
Amelia Mangan was born in London and currently lives in Sydney, Australia. Her debut novel, Release—a Midwestern Gothic tale of love, death, guilt, and madness—was published in 2015, and her short stories have been published in many anthologies. Her story “Blue Highway” won Yen Magazine’s first annual short story competition in 2013; The Book Smugglers selected her story “The Bridegroom” as their website’s first annual featured Halloween tale in 2015.
“I Love You Mary-Grace” was originally published in In Dog We Trust, edited by Anthony Cowin.
Ralph Robert Moore’s fiction has been published in America, Canada, England, Ireland, France, India and Australia in a wide variety of genre and literary magazines and anthologies. His latest novel, The Angry Red Planet, was published last year. He and his wife live in Dallas, Texas.
“Monkeys on the Beach” was originally published in Tales From the Shadow Booth: A Journal of Weird and Eerie Fiction Vol. 2 edited by Dan Coxon.
Thana Niveau is the author of the story collections Octoberland, Unquiet Waters, and From Hell to Eternity, as well as the novel House of Frozen Screams. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and has frequently been reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. She has twice been nominated for the British Fantasy award. Originally from the States, she now lives in the UK, in a Victorian seaside town between Bristol and Wales. She shares her life with fellow writer John Llewellyn Probert, in a crumbling gothic tower filled with arcane books and curiosities. And toy dinosaurs.
“White Mare” was originally published in The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories edited by Stephen Jones.
Thomas Olde Heuvelt is a Dutch author whose short stories have won the Hugo Award and the Dutch Harland Award, and have been nominated for two additional Hugo Awards and a World Fantasy Award. His fifth horror novel, HEX, launched his worldwide breakthrough, spawning editions in over twenty-five countries and an upcoming TV series. Olde Heuvelt recently finished his new horror novel Echo, which will be published in the US in 2020.
“You Know How the Story Goes” was originally published on Tor.com, February 21.
Robert Shearman has written five short story collections, and among them they have won the World Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Edge Hill Readers Prize, and three British Fantasy Awards. He began his career in the theatre, and is a regular writer for BBC Radio. But he is probably best known for his work on Doctor Who, bringing back the Daleks for the BAFTA winning first series in an episode nominated for a Hugo Award. His latest book, We All Hear Stories in the Dark, is to be released by PS Publishing next year.
“Thumbsucker” was originally published in New Fears 2 edited by Mark Morris.
Eloise C. C. Shepherd is a writer with a surprisingly successful sideline in boxing. She is co-founder of liminalresidency.co.uk, an Arts Council England funded writers’ retreat taking place in neglected and unusual spaces. You can find her work in New Writing 13, The Fiction Desk, and Eborakon. To learn more you can go to her website (eloiseccshepherd.co.uk) or follow her on social media (@faithlehanne).
“A Tiny Mirror” was originally published in Supernatural Tales 39.
Michael Marshall Smith is a novelist and screenwriter. He has won the Philip K. Dick, International Horror Guild, and August Derleth awards—along with the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction four times, more than any other author. In 2017 he published the YA novel Hannah Green and her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence.
Writing as Michael Marshall he has written internationally-bestselling thrillers including The Straw Men series and The Intruders. Now additionally writing as Michael Rutger, he recently published the adventure thriller The
Anomaly. A sequel, The Possession, is coming this year. He lives in California with his wife, son, and cats.
“Shit Happens” was originally published in The Devil and the Deep edited by Ellen Datlow.
Peter Sutton lives in Bristol, UK, with his partner and two cats. His first book, A Tiding of Magpies, was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story Collection. He is the author of two novels: Sick City Syndrome and Seven Deadly Swords. He has also edited several anthologies of short stories. You can follow him on Twitter at @suttope and his website, where you can find out more about him and his writing, is petewsutton.com
“Masks” was originally published in The Alchemy Press Book of Horror edited by Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards.
Richard Thomas is the award-winning author of seven books—Disintegration, Breaker, Transubstantiate, Herniated Roots, Staring into the Abyss, Tribulations, and The Soul Standard. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, and Thriller awards. His over 140 stories in print include Cemetery Dance, Behold!: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, Weird Fiction Review, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Qualia Nous, Chiral Mad (numbers 2–4), and Shivers VI. Visit whatdoesnotkillme.com for more information.
“Golden Sun” was originally published in Chiral Mad 4 edited by Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder.
Steve Toase was born in North Yorkshire, England, and now lives in Munich, Germany. His fiction has appeared in Shimmer, Lackington’s, Aurealis, Not One Of Us, and other magazines. He also writes for Fortean Times and Folklore Thursday.
From 2014 he worked with Becky Cherriman and Imove on Haunt, the Saboteur Award shortlisted project inspired by his own teenage experiences, about Harrogate’s haunting presence in the lives of people experiencing homelessness in the town.
You can find him at: tinyletter.com/stevetoase, facebook.com/stevetoase1, stevetoase.wordpress.com, and on Twitter @stevetoase.
“The Jaws of Ouroboros” was originally published in The Fiends in the Furrows, edited by David T. Neal and Christine M. Scott, and “Split Chain Stitch” was originally published in Mystery Weekly magazine, November.
Damien Angelica Walters is the author of Cry Your Way Home, Paper Tigers, Sing Me Your Scars, and the forthcoming The Dead Girls Club. Her short fiction has been nominated twice for a Bram Stoker Award, reprinted in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror and The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and published in various anthologies and magazines, including Cassilda’s Song, Nightmare Magazine, and Black Static. She lives in Maryland with her husband and two rescued pit bulls.
“Golden Sun” was originally published in Chiral Mad 4 edited by Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder.
Michael Wehunt lives in the woods with his partner and his dog. Robert Aickman fidgets next to Flannery O’Connor on his favorite bookshelf. His work has appeared in Year’s Best Weird Fiction, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Cemetery Dance, and many other chilling places. His debut collection, Greener Pastures, was shortlisted for the Crawford Award and was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist.
“Golden Sun” was originally published in Chiral Mad 4 edited by Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder.