World Horror Convention Special Edition

Christopher Fowler would make a good serial killer. He's charming and English and lives in a white penthouse with a view of St Paul’s Cathedral, and you'd think butter wouldn't melt in his mouth until you read his dark urban fiction — 17 novels and over 120 short stories so far. His œuvre divides into black comedy, horror, mystery, the odd revolting death and a set of novels unclassifiable enough to have publishers tearing their hair out. Emerging from a film industry background, he has come p...

Connie Willis (born Constance Elaine Trimmer, December 31, 1945, in Denver, Colorado) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer best known for her time-travel novels following historians from a future Oxford University, including Doomsday Book, To Say Nothing of the Dog, and Blackout/All Clear. She has won more major genre awards than any other writer in the field's history. In 2011 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named her its Damon Knight Memorial Grand Maste...

Hill is the second child of authors Stephen and Tabitha King. He grew up in Bangor, Maine. His younger brother Owen is also a writer. Hill has three sons. Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named) in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits instead of as the son of Stephen King. After achieving a degree of independent success, Hill publicly confirmed his identity in 2007 after an articl...

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

Michael Marshall Smith is a writer whose work often explores dark fantasy and horror. He's the editor of The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, a collection that showcases some of the most compelling stories in those genres.

Nancy Kilpatrick 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 and a puzzling plot, her work is definitely worth checking out.

Pete worked for a time in computers, had a dalliance in music/arts journalism and ended his corporate working life (1995) as head of internal communication's for Leeds Permanent Building Society... just before it was gobbled up by the Halifax (though the two things were not linked). From 1995 he worked as a communications consultant with a specialist communications and design company in Leeds before becoming a full-time writer/editor/publisher in 2000. Born on the fourth of July, Pete de...

Ramsey Campbell (born in Liverpool) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years. Two of his novels have been filmed, both for non-English-speaking markets. - Wikipedia

Stephen Gallagher is a writer whose work often explores the darker side of fiction. Fans will recognize his contributions to the World Horror Convention Special Edition and his collection, Dark Mirages.

English editor and author

Stephen Volk writes compelling stories, often in the horror genre, as seen in World Horror Convention Special Edition and Best New Horror #28. His other works include Gaslight Arcanum, Under a Raven's Wing, and New Creations in Israel!.

Steven Erikson was born Steve Rune Lundin in Toronto in 1959 and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He trained as an archaeologist and anthropologist — completing fieldwork on Indigenous sites in the Canadian Shield — before earning a graduate degree through the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He writes under a pen name adopted to avoid confusion with the American novelist Steve Erickson. The world of the Malazan Book of the Fallen has its origins not in a manuscript but in a tabletop roleplaying campaign....

American novelist

Tim Lebbon is a talented, highly-respected author, and the winner of the British Fantasy Society’s August Derleth Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2006) for Dusk (Bantam Spectra, 2006), the first of his “Noreela” fantasy saga. It was followed with the release of Dawn (Bantam Spectra, 2007), and 2008 sees the publication of Fallen. Mr. Lebbon is the co-author with Christopher Golden of the novel Mind the Gap: A Novel of the Hidden Cities (Cemetery Dance: May 2008; Bantam Spectra, May 2008). He als...

Terrance Michael Wright's first book, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Flying Saucers, was published in 1968. He went on to write more than 25 novels, mostly horror and/or speculative fiction. He also wrote poetry and short stories, and he illustrated for magazines and book covers.