Traps and Specters

Philip Fracassi is a master of dark fiction, known for unsettling tales like Close to Midnight, Sarafina, and No One is Safe!. His other works, including Traps and Specters and The Third Rule of Time Travel, continue to explore the strange and the terrifying.

Matt Dinniman grew up as a military brat — his father served in the US Army — moving frequently before eventually settling in the Pacific Northwest. He graduated from the University of Arizona and spent years refining his craft through creative writing workshops at Pima Community College, returning to the same class repeatedly and crediting the group critique sessions as foundational to his development as a writer. Before fiction, Dinniman earned a six-figure income selling cat-themed art to pe...