“The Granfalloon” was originally published in Darker Companions: Celebrating 50 Years of Ramsey Campbell selected and edited by Scott David Aniolowski and Joseph S. Pulver Sr.
Brian Hodge is one of those people who always has to be making something. So far, he’s made thirteen novels, around 130 shorter works, and five full-length collections.
He’ll have three new books out in 2018 and early 2019: The Immaculate Void, a novel of cosmic horror; A Song of Eagles, a grimdark fantasy; and Skidding Into Oblivion, his next collection.
He lives in Colorado, where he also likes to make music and photographs and trains in Krav Maga and kickboxing.
Connect through his web site (www.brianhodge.net), Twitter (@BHodgeAuthor), or Facebook (www.facebook.com/brianhodgewriter).
“West of Matamoros, North of Hell” was originally published in Dark Screams Volume Seven, edited by Brian James Freeman.
Carole Johnstone is a British Fantasy Award winning Scottish writer, currently enjoying splendid isolation on the Atlantic coast of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Her short fiction has been published widely, and has been reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year and Salt Publishing’s Best British Fantasy series.
Her debut short story collection, The Bright Day is Done, and her novella, Cold Turkey, were both shortlisted for a 2015 British Fantasy Award.
“Better You Believe” was originally published in Horror Library Volume 6, edited by Eric G. Guignard.
John Langan is the author of two novels: The Fisherman and House of Windows, and three collections: The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies, Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters, and Sefira and Other Betrayals.
With Paul Tremblay, he co-edited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters. One of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, he serves on its Advisory Board. Currently, he reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife and younger son.
“Lost in the Dark” was originally published in Haunted Nights, edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton.
Rich Larson was born in Galmi, Niger, has studied in Rhode Island and worked in the south of Spain, and now lives in Ottawa, Canada. Since he began writing in 2011, he’s sold over a hundred stories, the majority of them speculative fiction published in magazines like Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Omni, and Tor.com.
His work also appears in numerous Year’s Best anthologies and has been translated into Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, Czech, French, and Italian. His debut novel, Annex, was recently published, and his debut collection, Tomorrow Factory, is forthcoming in October 2018. Find more at richwlarson. tumblr.com and support him via patreon.com/richlarson.
“Dark Warm Heart” was originally published on Tor.com, April 12, 2017.
Rebecca Lloyd is from the south of England. Her short stories have been collected in Mercy and Other Stories, which was nominated for the 2014 World Fantasy Award, and Seven Strange Stories, The View from Endless Street, Whelp and Other Stories which was a finalist for the 2014 Paul Bowles Short Fiction Award, and Ragman and Other Family Curses.
Her story “The Ringers” was short-listed in the Aestas Short Story Prize 2016, and her novel Oothangbart was published by Pillar International Publishing. She is also the author of the novellas Woolfy and Scrapo and Jack Werrett, the Flood Man.
She recently finished The Child Cephalina, a Gothic horror novel set in 1851.
“Where’s the Harm?” was originally published in her collection Seven Strange Stories.
Carman Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, and the Crawford Award. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of “The New Vanguard,” one of “15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.” Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Tin House, The Believer, Guernica, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Michener-Copernicus Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the CINTAS Foundation, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.
“There and Back Again” war originally published in Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) For the Discerning Drinker (and Reader) edited by Nick Mamatas and Molly Tanzer.
Tim Major is co-editor of the British Fantasy Society’s fiction journal, BFS Horizons. His novels and novellas include You Don’t Belong Here, Blighters, and Carus & Mitch. In 2018, ChiZine will publish his first YA novel, Machineries of Mercy, Luna Press will publish his first short story collection, And The House Lights Dim, and Electric Dreamhouse Press will publish his non-fiction book about the silent crime film, Les Vampires.
Tim’s short stories have appeared in Interzone, Not One of Us, The Literary Hatchet, and numerous anthologies. Find out more at cosycatastrophes. wordpress.com.
“Eqalussuaq” was originally published in Not One of Us #58 October.
Seanan McGuire lives, works, and occasionally falls into swamps in the Pacific Northwest, where she is coming to an understanding with the local frogs. She has written a ridiculous number of novels and even more short stories. Keep up with her at seananmcguire.com. On moonlit nights, when the stars are right, you just might find her falling into a swamp near you.