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Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman’s most recent novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, is scheduled to publish in June 2013. His previous novel, the international bestseller The Graveyard Book, won the prestigious Newbery and Carnegie medals, the first author to win both for the same book. Other novels include American Gods, Coraline, Stardust, Neverwhere, and […]

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Marc Laidlaw

Marc Laidlaw is the author of six novels, including the International Horror Guild Award winner, The 37th Mandala. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies since the 1970s. In 1997, he joined Valve Software, and over the next nearly two decades, worked as lead writer on the popular Half-Life and Dota 2 […]

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C.S. McMullen

Catherine S. McMullen is a lifelong genre nerd, enjoying books, TV, movies and games indiscriminately, especially if they’re about robots, zombies, or dragons (or possibly robotic zombie-dragons). She is the equal youngest person to sell a story to a professional science-fiction magazine, selling to Interzone at age 10, and has sold nine stories professionally, although “The Nest” is her first horror […]

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Caspian Gray

Caspian Gray is a used car salesman who has previously worked as a funeral director’s apprentice, a pet nutritionist, an English teacher in Japan, a Japanese teacher in America, and a crystal healing “expert” in a head shop. He currently lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he shares a home with a tall man and a […]

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Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand is the author of numerous award-winning novels and four collections of short fiction. Her most recent books are Available Dark, sequel to Shirley Jackson Award winner Generation Loss; Radiant Days, a YA novel about Arthur Rimbaud; and Errantry: Strange Stories. She divides her time between the coast of Maine and North London, where […]

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Caitlin R. Kiernan

Caitlín R. Kiernan is the author of several novels, including World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson award-nominated The Red Tree and the Nebula and Bram Stoker award-nominated The Drowning Girl: A Memoir. She is a very prolific short-story author, and her stories have been collected in Tales of Pain and Wonder; From Weird and Distant Shores; To Charles Fort, With Love; […]

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David Tallerman

David Tallerman is the author of numerous novels and novellas, most recently the historical science-fiction drama To End All Wars, thrillers A Savage Generation and The Bad Neighbor and fantasy series The Black River Chronicles. His comics work includes the graphic novel Endangered Weapon B: Mechanimal Science, with artist Bob Molesworth, and his short fiction […]

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Weston Ochse

Weston Ochse is the author of more than twenty books. His work has appeared in various anthologies and magazines, including The Tampa Review, Vol 1 Brooklyn, Soldier of Fortune, IDW and DC Comics. His work has also been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award five times and he’s been honored to have won the […]

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Lisa Morton

Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, and prose writer whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening.” She is a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award®, the author of four novels and over 150 short stories, and a world-class […]

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Molly Tanzer

Molly Tanzer is the author of Creatures of Will and Temper, Vermilion, and The Pleasure Merchant, as well as the British Fantasy and Wonderland Book Award-nominated A Pretty Mouth. She is also the co-editor of Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker (and Reader). For more information about her critically acclaimed […]

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