The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012

Adam Callaway is a writer recognized for his work in dark fantasy and horror. He was a contributor to "The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012.

US author, principally of Horror, and anthology editor who began to publish work of genre interest with "Dragon Story" in Chrysalis 2 (anth 1978) edited by Roy Torgeson.-SFE

Angela Slatter is an Australian author of speculative fiction. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Ditmar Award, the Australian Shadows Award, and numerous Aurealis Awards.

Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born 26 May 1964) is an Irish-born American paleontologist and writer of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including 10 novels, series of comic books, and more than 250 published short stories, novellas, and vignettes. Kiernan is a two-time recipient of both the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker awards. Source: [Caitlín R. Kiernan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitl%C3%ADn_R._Kiernan) on Wikipedia.

Catherynne M. Valente is an American speculative fiction writer and poet, born May 5, 1979, in Seattle, Washington. She writes fiction that blends fairy tales and myth, in a style she has termed "mythpunk," and is known for the Fairyland series, along with novels including Deathless, Palimpsest, and Space Opera.

Charles de Lint is the author behind the urban fantasy novel Protectors 2: Heroes. He's known for his imaginative stories that often blend folklore with modern settings.

American writer and editor of fantasy and horror fiction.

Elizabeth Hand (born March 29, 1957) is an American writer.

Glen Hirshberg writes dark fantasy and horror. His stories have appeared in several "Year's Best" collections, including The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012 and The Best Horror of the Year Volume 14. He is also the author of Tell Me When I Disappear.

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.

Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. - Wikipedia

Joe R. Lansdale is an American author of horror, crime, western and science fiction, born in Gladewater, Texas, and long based in Nacogdoches. He has written more than forty novels and many short stories, comics and screenplays, all steeped in the East Texas setting. He is best known for the Hap and Leonard crime series, the novella Bubba Ho-Tep and the novel The Bottoms, which won the Edgar Award. He has also won multiple Bram Stoker Awards.

Kaaron Warren writes dark fantasy and horror, with stories appearing in collections like Body Shocks and The Grinding House. Her work is also featured in multiple "Year's Best" anthologies, including The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012 and The Best Horror of the Year Volume 14.

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...

American author and editor

Lisa Tuttle is the author of the fantasy novel Windhaven. She writes stories that explore the magic and wonder of the world.

Margo Lanagan is a writer whose work often explores the darker corners of fantasy and horror. She's the editor of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, a collection that showcases some of the most compelling stories in those genres.

Maureen McHugh is an author recognized for her contributions to dark fantasy and horror. Her work has appeared in "The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror" anthologies for both 2011 and 2012. She is also the author of "La vida secreta de los bots y otros relatos.

Naomi Novik is an American author of fantasy and alternate history, best known for the nine-book Temeraire series — an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars fought with dragons — the Scholomance trilogy (A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate, The Golden Enclaves), and the award-winning standalone novels Uprooted and Spinning Silver. She holds a degree in English literature from Brown University and a master's in computer science from Columbia University, and co-founded the Organization for Tr...

Norman Partridge is a writer and editor known for his work in dark fantasy and horror. He has edited several Year's Best collections and contributed to anthologies like The Mammoth Book of Angels

Norman Prentiss is the editor behind the Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror series. He's a keen eye for the best in dark fantasy and horror fiction.

Paula Guran is the editor behind The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. She's a trusted voice for readers looking for the best in dark fantasy and horror.

Paul Finch is a key figure in dark fantasy and horror. He's known for his work on anthologies such as The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012 and the popular Terror Tales series, which includes Terror Tales of the Ocean.

Paul Park writes across fantasy and science fiction, with a notable entry in "The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012." Readers enjoy his novels like Far Voyager, The Hidden World, and Celestis.

Priya Sharma writes dark fantasy and horror, with stories appearing in collections like The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012 and Great British Horror 4. She is also the author of Body Shocks, Follow The Breeze, and Let Miracles Flow.

Sarah Monette is an American fantasy and horror author born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1974. She holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Wisconsin, where she specialized in Renaissance revenge tragedy, and lives near Madison. Under her own name she wrote the Doctrine of Labyrinths series and the Iskryne novels co-authored with Elizabeth Bear. In 2009, after her publisher balked at her sales numbers, she began releasing fantasy under the pen name Katherine Addison, starting with...

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...

Tananarive Due is an American writer of horror, science fiction and mystery, born in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1966. Her debut novel The Between appeared in 1995, and she went on to write the African Immortals series, beginning with My Soul to Keep, as well as The Good House. Her novel The Reformatory won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel along with the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy awards; her story collection Ghost Summer won the British Fantasy Award, and The Living Blood earned an Amer...

Tanith Lee was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death's Master (1980). Source: Wikipedia

Tia V. Travis writes in the dark fantasy and horror genres. She is known for her contribution to The Year's Best Dark Fantasy And Horror 2012.

Tim Powers is the author of fourteen novels, including The Anubis Gates, Declare, Hide Me Among the Graves, and On Stranger Tides, which was adapted for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie of the same title. His novels have twice won the Philip K. Dick Award and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and three times won Locus Awards. Powers lives with his wife, Serena, in San Bernardino, California.

Yoon Ha Lee is the author of the collection The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities. They write science fiction and fantasy, often with a unique twist.