Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror (66 page)

KELLEY ARMSTRONG
is the author of the
Cainsville
modern gothic series and the
Age of Legends
YA fantasy trilogy. Past works include the
Otherworld
urban fantasy series, the
Darkest Powers
&
Darkness Rising
teen paranormal trilogies, and the Nadia Stafford crime trilogy. She also co-writes the
Blackwell Pages
middle-grade fantasy trilogy as K. L. Armstrong with M. A. Marr. Armstrong lives in southwestern Ontario with her family.

LAIRD BARRON
is the author of several books, including
The Croning, Occultation,
and
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
. His
work has also appeared in many magazines and anthologies. An expatriate Alaskan, Barron currently resides in upstate New York.

LYNDA BARRY
has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher. She is the creator behind
Ernie Pook’s Comeek,
the seminal comic strip that was syndicated across North America in alternative weeklies for two decades. She is the author of more than twenty books, including
The Freddie Stories, One! Hundred! Demons!, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel,
and
The Good Times Are Killing Me,
which was adapted as an off-Broadway play. Her graphic novel
What It Is
won the comics industry’s 2009 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work. She lives in Wisconsin, where she teaches at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

GARY A.
BRAUNBECK
is a seven-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author who writes mysteries, thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mainstream literature. He is the author of twenty-four books, and his fiction has been translated into Japanese, French, Italian, Russian, and German. Nearly 250 of his short stories have appeared in various professional publications. His fiction has received numerous awards, including multiple Bram Stoker Awards, a Black Quill Award, three Shocklines “Shocker” Awards, and the International Horror Guild Award, and has also been nominated for the World Fantasy Award.

DANA CAMERON
can’t help mixing in a little history into her fiction. Drawing from her expertise in archaeology, Dana’s work (including traditional mystery, noir, urban fantasy, historical fiction, and thrillers) has won multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards and earned an Edgar Award nomination. Her third Fangborn novel,
Hellbender
, will be published in March 2015 by 47North. Her most recent Fangborn short story is a Sherlockian pastiche,
“The Curious Case of Miss Amelia Vernet.” Her story “The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars,” featuring Pam Ravenscroft from Charlaine Harris’s acclaimed Sookie Stackhouse mysteries, appears in
Dead But Not Forgotten: Stories from the World of Sookie Stackhouse
. Visit her at
www.danacameron.com
.

DAN CHAON’s
most recent book is the short story collection
Stay Awake
(2012), a finalist for the Story Prize. Other works include the national bestseller
Await Your Reply
and
Among the Missing
, a finalist for the National Book Award. Chaon’s fiction has appeared in
Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthologies
, and
The O. Henry Prize Stories
. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, as well as the Shirley Jackson Award, and he was the recipient of an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Chaon lives in Ohio and teaches at Oberlin College.

CHARLAINE HARRIS,
a native of the Mississippi Delta, has lived her whole life in various Southern states. Her first book, a mystery, was published in 1981. After that promising debut, her career meandered along until the success of the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Now all her books are in print, and she is a very happy camper. She is married and has three children.

BRIAN KEENE
is the author of more than forty books, mostly in the horror, crime, and dark fantasy genres. His 2003 novel,
The Rising
, is often credited (along with Robert Kirkman’s
The Walking Dead
comic and Danny Boyle’s
28 Days Later
film) with inspiring pop culture’s current interest in zombies. Keene’s novels have been translated into German, Spanish, Polish, Italian, French, Taiwanese, and many more languages. Several of Keene’s novels have been developed for film, including
Ghoul
,
The Ties That Bind
, and
Fast Zombies Suck
.

SHERRILYN KENYON
is a
New York Times
and international bestselling author, and a regular at the #1 spot. Since 2004, she had placed more than seventy novels on the
New York Times
bestseller list in all formats, including manga and graphic novels. Her current series are
Dark-Hunter, Chronicles of Nick,
and
The League
, and her books are available in over one hundred countries. Her
Chronicles of Nick
and
Dark-Hunter
series are soon to be major motion pictures, while
Dark-Hunter
is also being developed as a television series.

MICHAEL KORYTA
is the
New York Times
bestselling author of ten suspense novels. His work has been praised by such writers as Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Dennis Lehane, among many others, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. His books have won or been nominated for prizes such as the
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize, Edgar Award, Shamus Award, Barry Award, Quill Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the Golden Dagger.

JOHN LANGAN
is the author of two collections,
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies
(Hippocampus; 2013) and
Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
(Prime; 2008), and a novel,
House of Windows
(Night Shade; 2009). With Paul Tremblay, he co-edited
Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters
(Prime; 2011). His next collection,
Sefira and Other Betrayals
, is forthcoming in 2015. He lives in upstate New York with his wife and younger son.

TIM LEBBON
is a
New York Times
bestselling writer with more than thirty novels published to date, as well as dozens of novellas and hundreds of short stories. Recent releases include
The Silence, Coldbrook
,
Into the Void: Dawn of the Jedi (Star Wars),
Reaper’s Legacy,
and
Alien: Out of the Shadows.
Forthcoming novels include the thriller
The Hunt
from Avon, and Titan will be
publishing
The Rage War
trilogy and also the
Relics
trilogy over the next few years. He has won four British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Scribe Award, and been shortlisted for World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Awards. A movie of his story
Pay the Ghost
, starring Nicolas Cage, will be released soon, and other projects in development include
My Haunted House, Playtime
(with Stephen Volk), and
Exorcising Angels
(with Simon Clark). Find out more at
www.timlebbon.net
.

SEANAN McGUIRE
is the author of more than a dozen novels, under both her own name and the pseudonym Mira Grant. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and can generally be found either skulking around cornfields or heading for the nearest Disney Park. Seanan lives in California with her collection of Maine Coon cats and creepy dolls; keep up with her at
www.seananmcguire.com
.

JOE McKINNEY
has been a patrol officer for the San Antonio Police Department, a homicide detective, a disaster mitigation specialist, a patrol commander, and a successful novelist. His books include the four-part
Dead World
series,
Quarantined
,
Inheritance
,
The Savage Dead
,
St. Rage
,
Crooked House,
and
Dodging Bullets
. His short fiction has been collected in
The Red Empire and Other Stories
,
Speculations
, and
Dead World Resurrection: The Complete Zombie Short Stories of Joe McKinney
. His latest works include the YA werewolf thriller
Dog Days
, set in the summer of 1983, and
Plague of the Undead
:
Book One in the Deadlands Saga
. McKinney’s novels have twice been honored with the Bram Stoker Award. For more information, go to
joemckinney.wordpress.com
.

LEIGH PERRY
is Toni L.P. in disguise, or perhaps vice versa. As Leigh, she writes the Family Skeleton mysteries.
The Skeleton Haunts a
House
, the third, is due out in Fall 2015. As Toni, she is the author of three
Where Are They Now?
mysteries and eight novels in the Laura Fleming series; an Agatha Award winner and multiple award nominee for short fiction; and the co-editor of urban fantasy anthologies with Charlaine Harris. Leigh and/or Toni lives just north of Boston with her husband, fellow author Stephen P. Kelner, their two daughters, two guinea pigs, and many, many books.

ROBERT SHEARMAN
has written five short story collections, and collectively they have won the World Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Edge Hill Readers’ Prize, and three British Fantasy Awards. He began his career in theater, both as a playwright and director, and his work has won the
Sunday Times
Playwriting Award, the Sophie Winter Memorial Trust Award, and the Guinness Award for Ingenuity in association with the Royal National Theatre. His interactive series for BBC Radio Four,
The Chain Gang,
ran for three seasons and won two Sony Awards. However, he may be best known as a writer for
Doctor Who,
reintroducing the Daleks for its BAFTA-winning first series in an episode nominated for a Hugo Award.

SCOTT SMITH
is the author of two novels,
A Simple Plan
and
The Ruins
.

LUCY A.
SNYDER
is the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of the novels
Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, Switchblade Goddess
, and the collections
Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines
, and
Installing Linux on a Dead Badger
. Her latest books are
Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide
and
Soft Apocalypses
. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as
Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Jamais Vu, Pseudopod,
Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Steampunk World, In the Court of the Yellow
King, Qualia Nous, Chiral Mad 2
, and
Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5
. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband and occasional co-author, Gary A. Braunbeck, and is a mentor in Seton Hill University’s MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. You can learn more about her at
www.lucysnyder.com
and you can follow her on Twitter:
@LucyASnyder
.

DAVID WELLINGTON
is the author of seventeen novels, which have appeared around the world in eight languages. His horror series include
Monster Island
,
13 Bullets
, and
Frostbite
. His thriller series starring Afghanistan war veteran Jim Chapel includes
Chimera
and
The Hydra Protocol
. In 2015, he will publish
Positive
, a zombie epic about rebuilding the world after an apocalypse. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

RIO YOUERS
is the British Fantasy Award–nominated author of
End Times
and
Old Man Scratch
.
His short fiction has appeared in many notable anthologies, and his previous novel,
Westlake Soul,
was nominated for Canada’s prestigious Sunburst Award. Rio lives in southwestern Ontario with his wife, Emily, and their children, Lily and Charlie.

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN
is the #1 New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker Award–winning author of such novels as Snowblind, Tin Men, Of Saints and Shadows, and The Boys Are Back in Town. His novel with Mike Mignola, Baltimore; or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, was the launching pad for the Eisner Award–nominated comic book series Baltimore. As an editor, he has compiled the short story anthologies The New Dead, The Monster’s Corner, and Dark Duets, among others, and has also written and co-written numerous comic books, video games, and screenplays. Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. His original novels have been published in more than fourteen languages in countries around the world. Please visit him at
www.christophergolden.com
.