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Thomas L. McDonald

Thomas L. McDonald is Editor-at-Large of Games Magazine.

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Ellen Datlow

Ellen Datlow has been editing sf/f/h short fiction for over thirty years. She was fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and SCIFICTION and currently acquires and edits stories for Tor.com. She has edited more than fifty anthologies, including the annual The Best Horror of the Year, Lovecraft’s Monsters, Fearful Symmetries, Nightmare Carnival, The Cutting Room, and […]

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A.R. Morlan

A.R. Morlan’s short fiction (under her own name and three pen names) has been published or is forthcoming in over one hundred twenty different magazines, anthologies, and webzines in the United States, Canada, and parts of Europe. Her stories are collected most recently in Of Vampires & Gentlemen: Tales of Erotic Horror, The Fold-O-Rama Wars at […]

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Gemma Files

Formerly a film critic, journalist, screenwriter and teacher, Gemma Files has been an award-winning horror author since 1999. She has published two collections of short work (Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart), two chap-books of speculative poetry (Bent Under Night and Dust Radio), a Weird Western trilogy (the Hexslinger series—A Book of Tongues, […]

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Pat Cadigan

Pat Cadigan has won the Locus Award three times, the Arthur C. Clarke Award twice for her novels Synners and Fools, and the Hugo Award for her novelette, “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi.” While her novels are all science-fiction, she has also written two nonfiction movie books and several media tie-ins, and her […]

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Marina J. Lostetter

Marina J. Lostetter’s short fiction has appeared in venues such as InterGalactic Medicine Show, Galaxy’s Edge, and Writers of the Future. Her most recent publications include a tie-in novelette for the Star Citizen game universe, which was serialized over the first four months of 2014. Originally from Oregon, Marina now lives in Arkansas with her […]

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Charles L. Grant

Charles L. Grant (1945-2006) was the author of numerous novels and short stories, both under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms. During his career, he appeared frequently on awards lists as a nominee, and won a number of awards, including multiple turns as a winner of the Nebula, the World Fantasy Award, and […]

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Maria Alexander

Maria Alexander is a multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author who lives in Los Angeles. The protagonist of her YA historical fantasy Brimstone & Blades is the queer 17th-century duelist known as La Maupin. Her duel with the devil begins on June 3, 2025. Learn more at www.mariaalexander.net.

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Karin Tidbeck

Karin Tidbeck works as a freelance writer, teacher and translator in Malmö, Sweden. She has published a short story collection and a novel in Swedish, and debuted in English in 2012 with the acclaimed collection Jagannath.  Her short fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine and Strange Horizons and numerous anthologies. Her work has received the Campbell Award and […]

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Tim Lebbon

Tim Lebbon is a New York Times-bestselling writer with almost thirty novels published to date, as well as dozens of novellas and hundreds of short stories. Recent releases include Coldbrook, Into the Void: Dawn of the Jedi (Star Wars), Reaper’s Legacy, and Alien: Out of the Shadows. Titan published The Silence this April in the […]

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