A.C. Wise is a Canadian-American speculative fiction and horror writer who grew up outside Montreal, earned a BA in History from McGill University, and now lives near Philadelphia, where she works as an arts-nonprofit fundraiser. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Uncanny, Tor.com, and numerous Year's Best anthologies, and has been a finalist for the Nebula and Lambda Literary Awards and won the Sunburst Award. She is the author of the novels Wendy, Darling and Hooked, and the colle...
Brian Hodge is a respected voice in dark fantasy and horror. His works include the collection Final Cuts and Skidding Into Oblivion, and he's a contributor to notable anthologies like The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu and Lovecraft's Monsters.
Cassandra Khaw, born August 31, 1984, is a Malaysian writer of horror and science fiction who also works as a video game scriptwriter for studios including Ubisoft Montreal, and has written for tabletop RPGs and as a games journalist. Their fiction has appeared in Tor.com, Clarkesworld, Fireside Fiction, Uncanny Magazine, and Nature. Their novella Hammers on Bone was a British Fantasy and Locus Award finalist, and their novel The Salt Grows Heavy and USA Today bestseller Nothing But Blackened Te...
Dale Bailey is the editor of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror and a contributor to the Wastelands series. He's a writer with a knack for exploring the darker corners of imagination.
Ellen Datlow is a leading editor in horror and science fiction, known for anthologies like Final Cuts, Christmas and Other Horrors, and Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories. She also edited The Second Omni book of science fiction and the Women Destroy Horror! special issue of Nightmare Magazine.
Garth Richard Nix (born 19 July 1963) is an Australian writer of fantasy for children and young adults. Born in Melbourne and now living in Sydney, he worked as a bookseller, editor, literary agent and marketing consultant before writing full time. He is best known for the Old Kingdom series, which began with Sabriel (1995) and continues through Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel and Goldenhand, and for The Keys to the Kingdom septet, one volume per day of the week from Mister Monday to Lord Sunday. His...
Gemma Files is a Canadian horror writer, journalist, and film critic. Her short story, "The Emperor's Old Bones", won the International Horror Guild Award for Best Short Story of 1999. Five of her short stories were adapted for the television series The Hunger.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemma_Files, 7 February 2022
Jeffrey Ford is the author of the gripping Western novel Dead Man's Hand. His work often explores the darker corners of human nature and the American West.
John Langan is the editor of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror and the author of Wastelands--Stories of the Apocalypse. He's a go-to for dark fantasy and horror fans looking for the best in the genre.
Josh Malerman is an American horror novelist and songwriter from Michigan. His debut novel, Bird Box (2014), was adapted into a Netflix film released in December 2018. He has since published novels including Black Mad Wheel, Unbury Carol, Inspection, Malorie, Daphne and Incidents Around the House (2024), along with novellas and short fiction. He is also the singer and songwriter of the Detroit rock band The High Strung, which he started while studying at Michigan State University.
Kelley Armstrong is a Canadian author of fantasy, horror, thriller and romance novels for adults and teens. She debuted in 2001 with Bitten, the first novel in her Women of the Otherworld series, and has gone on to write the Darkest Powers, Darkness Rising, Age of Legends, Cainsville and Rockton series, among others. Her novel No Humans Involved was a New York Times bestseller, and The Rising won the Aurora Award for Best YA Novel in 2014. Her Otherworld novels inspired the television se...
Laird Samuel Barron (born 1970) is an American author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror, noir, and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review. He lives in Upstate New York.
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Lisa Morton is the author of nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery and the Macabre. She writes stories that explore the darker side of life. If you enjoy a good scare, you'll want to check out her work.
Nathan Ballingrud is the editor of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. He's a writer who knows his way around the darker corners of speculative fiction.
Paul Cornell writes across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, with works like the urban fantasy novel London Falling and the short story collections Final Cuts and The Book of the Dead. He is also featured in anthologies such as Eclipse 2 and Some of the Best from Tor.com.
Richard Kadrey is the author of the Wastelands series, a collection of gripping stories about the apocalypse. He's a master of dark fantasy and gritty, imaginative fiction.
Stephen Graham Jones (born January 22, 1972, in Midland, Texas) is an American author of horror, crime and speculative fiction, and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Nation. He holds a B.A. from Texas Tech University, an M.A. from the University of North Texas, and a Ph.D. from Florida State University, and is the Ineva Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has taught since 2008. His novels include The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and The Bu...
Usman T. Malik writes science fiction and horror, with his own work including Final Cuts. His stories are also featured in anthologies such as Best of World SF and The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu. He has been recognized in The Long List Anthology series.