ROBERT M. PRICE describes himself as “Freethinker, Author, Teacher, Speaker, Debater, Editor, Anthologist, Columnist, Podcaster and Heretic,” and indeed excels in all those fields. He is the editor of the long-running Crypt of Cthulhu magazine, a Hierophant of the Horde who has memorably preached at Cthulhu prayer breakfasts (some of his best such effusions have been collected in The Sermon on the Mound and Others (2011). His more serious works include a great deal of Lovecraft scholarship, plus the “Cycle” series of anthologies for Chaosium (The Innsmouth Cycle, etc.) and others including Acolytes of Cthulhu, Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos, The New Lovecraft Circle, Worlds of Cthulhu, etc. Much of his own Mythos fiction is collected in Blasphemies and Revelations.
ANN K. SCHWADER lives and writes in Colorado. Her latest collection of weird verse is Unquiet Stars (Weird House Press 2021). She is a two-time Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Poetry Collection, and a two-time Rhysling Award winner. Her poems have recently appeared in Spectral Realms, Star*Line, Dreams & Nightmares, Abyss & Apex, and elsewhere. She is an Active member of SFWA and HWA, and was the Poet Laureate for Necronomicon Providence 2015.
KEITH TAYLOR was born in Tasmania and grew up in picturesque Hobart. He reports that he was always a voracious reader and started writing aged nine. He became a Robert E. Howard fan early. His professional start came with the publication of his “Felimid the Bard” stories in Fantastic Stories, in the 1970s. Collaborations with Andrew J. Offutt, featuring Robert E. Howard’s character Cormac mac Art, followed. So did five novels about Felimid the Bard. Other series characters include Nasach, an Irish fisherman’s son and tough escaped slave, and Kamose, an archpriest and sorcerer of ancient Egypt.
Several stories appeared in British editor Mike Ashley’s anthologies such as The Camelot Chronicles and Shakespearean Whodunnits. Illness about fourteen years ago interrupted Keith’s writing, but since then he’s returned to work. A weird horror novel, Damned from Birth, is still looking for a publisher. Current projects are a sixth Felimid novel and a historical murder mystery. He lives in Melbourne with his wife Anna and son Francis.
HARRY TURTLEDOVE earned a Ph.D. in Byzantine history, but has spent his life telling lies for a living rather than in scholarship. He has published about a hundred books and two hundred pieces of short fiction. They include alternate history, other science fiction, fantasy (much of it historically based), and the occasional bit of historical fiction. His latest books are Through Darkest Europe and Alpha and Omega. He is married to fellow writer and Broadway scholar Laura Frankos. They have three daughters and two granddaughters, and share their house with too many books and three over-privileged cats.
DON WEBB teaches a course in horror writing for UCLA Extension. A popular occult writer as well as practitioner of the old Weird, Don’s latest two books are Building Strange Temples (from Ramble House) and the bestselling Energy Magic of the Vampyre (a how-to volume from Inner Traditions).
About the Editor
DARRELL SCHWEITZER has been publishing fantasy and horror fiction since the early 1970s. PS Publishing published a two-volume retrospective of his best short fiction in 2020, The Mysteries of the Faceless King and The Last Heretic. His Shirley Jackson Award nominated novella, Living with the Dead, appeared from PS in 2008. His previous anthologies for PS include That Is Not Dead, Tales from the Miskatonic University Library (with John Ashmead), and The Mountains of Madness Revealed. He has also edited anthologies for other publishers, including The Secret History of Vampires, Cthulhu’s Reign, and Full Moon City (with Martin Greenberg). He was co-editor of Weird Tales between 1988 and 2007, and before that he worked with George Scithers on Amazing Stories and Asimov’s SF. He has published four novels, The White Isle, The Shattered Goddess, The Mask of the Sorcerer, and The Dragon House. His numerous short fiction collections include Tom O’Bedlam’s Night Out, Transients (World Fantasy Award finalist, 1994), Refugees from an Imaginary Country, Nightscapes, Necromancies and Netherworlds (with Jason Van Hollander; World Fantasy Award finalist, 2000), The Emperor of the Ancient Word, and others. Many of his explicitly Lovecraftian fictions are collected in Awaiting Strange Gods, published by Fedogan & Bremer in 2015. He is editing a series of Weird Tales anthologies for Centipede Press. The first of these, The Best of Weird Tales: The 1920s should appear in 2022. He won the World Fantasy Award in 1992 as co-editor of Weird Tales.
SHADOWS OUT OF TIME
Copyright © 2023; Darrell Schweitzer
Individual stories copyright by the individual contributors.
Cover Art
Copyright © 2023 Bob Eggleton
Published in May 2023 by PS Publishing by arrangement with the authors. All rights reserved by the authors. The right of each contributor to be identified as Author of their Work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
ISBN
978-1-78636-972-7
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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