Josh Malerman is a New York Times bestselling author and one of two
singer/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung. His debut
novel, Bird Box, is the inspiration for the hit Netflix film of the
same name. His other novels include Unbury Carol and Inspection.
Malerman lives in Michigan with his fiancée, the artist/musician
Allison Laakko. Seanan McGuire is the author of Every Heart a
Doorway, the October Daye urban fantasy series, the InCryptid
series, and several other works, both standalone and in trilogies.
She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. She was the winner of
the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013
she became the first person ever to appear five times on the same
Hugo ballot. Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction,
fantasy, and horror short fiction for forty years as fiction editor
of Omni magazine and editor of Event Horizon and Sci Fiction. She
currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com. In
addition, she has edited about one hundred science fiction,
fantasy, and horror anthologies.
She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards,
Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley
Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for
Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of
the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy
Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre," was honored
with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association,
in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career,
and was honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at
the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.
She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction
Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at
Datlow.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter as @EllenDatlow. She's
owned by two cats.
Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror
short fiction for forty years as fiction editor of Omni magazine
and editor of Event Horizon and Sci Fiction. She currently acquires
short stories and novellas for Tor.com. In addition, she has edited
about one hundred science fiction, fantasy, and horror
anthologies.
She's won multiple World Fantasy Awards, Locus Awards, Hugo Awards,
Bram Stoker Awards, International Horror Guild Awards, Shirley
Jackson Awards, and the 2012 Il Posto Nero Black Spot Award for
Excellence as Best Foreign Editor. Datlow was named recipient of
the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy
Convention for "outstanding contribution to the genre," was honored
with the Life Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association,
in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career,
and was honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at
the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.
She lives in New York and co-hosts the monthly Fantastic Fiction
Reading Series at KGB Bar. More information can be found at
Datlow.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter as @EllenDatlow. She's
owned by two cats.
Joyce Carol Oates, an award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction,
short stories, plays, and novellas, is the author of some of the
most enduring fiction of our time, including two New York Times
bestsellers. Her books have won the National Book Award, O. Henry
Award, the Jerusalem Prize, and the National Humanities Medal,
among others. Her work has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize
several times. She has been a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Letters since 1978.
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Elizabeth Hand is the author of more than fourteen cross-genre
novels and collections of short fiction. Her work has received the
Shirley Jackson Award (three times), the World Fantasy Award (four
times), the Nebula Award (twice), as well as the James M. Tiptree
Jr. and Mythopoeic Society Awards. She is a longtime critic and
contributor of essays for the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times,
Salon, Boston Review, and the Village Voice, among many others.
Benjamin Percy has won a Whiting Award, a Plimpton Prize, two
Pushcart Prizes, and a grant from the National Endowment for the
Arts. He is the author of the novels The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and
The Wilding, three story collections, and an essay collection,
Thrill Me. He also writes the Green Arrow and Teen Titans series
for DC Comics.
Feodor Chin, an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator, is an
actor classically trained at the American Conservatory Theater and
UCLA. His acting career includes numerous credits in film,
television, theater, and voice-over.
Patrick Cullen (a.k.a. John Lescault), a native of Massachusetts,
is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in
Washington, DC, where he works in theater.
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Cassandra Campbell began doing voice overs as the voice for Calvin
Klein's Italian commercials. This was followed by commercial and
documentary recording in both English and Italian. She has recorded
many audiobooks and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards
as well as an Audie(R) Award nomination. As an actress and
director, she has worked at the Public, the Mint, the Berkshire
Theatre Festival, Stagewest, Theatreworks, the Baltimore
Shakespeare Festival, Millmountain Theatre, the National
Shakespeare Company, and the New York Fringe Festival.
Kate Mulligan has acted with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for
more than ten seasons in productions including Hairspray, Alice in
Wonderland, and Sense and Sensibility. Her film and television work
includes Being John Malkovich and It's Always Sunny in
Philadelphia.
Joniece Abbott-Pratt has narrated many audiobooks for children,
young adults, and adults. She has won several AudioFile Earphones
Awards and in 2021 was a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award
for Best Fantasy Narration. She earned an MFA degree in acting from
the University of Iowa and has performed on regional theater stages
across the country, including the Public Theater in New York City.
She has also appeared on television shows, including The Good
Fight, Law and Order: SVU, Luke Cage, and Orange Is the New Black,
and has voiced commercials and projects for US Bank, Johnson &
Johnson, and others.
Erin Moon is a professional actor and an AudioFile Earphones
Award-winning narrator of over 150 novels. She lives and records in
beautiful Vancouver, Canada.
Coming soon... Bernadette Dunne is the winner of more than a dozen
AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the
prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre
in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has
appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway.
Nicol Zanzarella is an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator
and a theater and television actress. She has appeared in
productions of Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale,
Cousin Bette, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, and many others.
A joy for Jackson fans, but no Jackson knowledge is needed to enjoy
this anthology. A gem in its own right. -- "SFX magazine"
Brings together eighteen outstanding, atmospheric horror shorts
from some of the biggest names in the genre...Each of Datlow's
chilling selections successfully honors the spirit of Jackson's
writing, suffused with both the darkest of human emotions and the
terror of the supernatural.-- "Publishers Weekly (starred
review)"
Readers with a taste for the macabre should find plenty to enjoy in
this inspired collection.-- "Booklist"
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