Shadows Out of Time

About the Authors

JAMES CHAMBERS received the Bram Stoker Award® for the graphic novel, Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe and is a four-time Bram Stoker Award nominee. He is the author of the short story collections On the Night Border and On the Hierophant Road, which received a starred review from Booklist, which called it “…satisfyingly unsettling”; and the novella collection, The Engines of Sacrifice, described as “…chillingly evocative…” in a Publisher’s Weekly starred review. He has written the novellas, Three Chords of Chaos, Kolchak and the Night Stalkers: The Faceless God, and many others. He edited and co-edited the Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthologies, Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign and A New York State of Fright, as well as Even in the Grave, an anthology of ghost stories.

ADRIAN COLE is a native of and lives in North Devon, England. He writes about himself: “My first published work was a ghost story for IPC magazines (UK, 1972) followed by a trilogy of sword & planet novels, The Dream Lords (Zebra, US, 1970s). Subsequently I have had more than two dozen novels and numerous short stories published, many translated into foreign editions.

“I have written science fiction, heroic fantasy, sword & sorcery, horror, pulp fiction, and Mythos as well as two young adult novels, Moorstones and The Sleep of Giants (Spindlewood, UK, 1980s).

“My best known works are the Omarian Saga and Star Requiem fantasy quartets, both reprinted recently as e-Books (Gollancz SF Gateway) and as audio books (Audible).

“My collection Nick Nightmare Investigates (Alchemy UK), the first arc of stories about my hard-boiled occult private eye, was the recipient of the 2015 British Fantasy Award for best collection. This is to be reprinted by Pulp Hero Press, together with two further volumes, Nightmare Cocktails and Nightmare Creatures. I also have another collection, Elak, King of Atlantis, due from Skelos Press this year.

“I have previously appeared in Year’s Best Fantasy and Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies.

“I contribute regularly to the revised Weirdbook Magazine (US) and have had several short horror stories in anthologies in both the US and the UK, including The Mammoth Book of Halloween, The Alchemy Book of Horror, Hinnom, and Occult Detective Quarterly Presents.”

BRYAN D. DIETRICH is the author of nine books of poems and co-editor of an anthology of superhero poetry. He has published work in Weird Tales, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, and many other journals. He has been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, and has won the Asimov’s Readers’ Choice Award, the Paris Review Prize, the Lord Ruthven Award, a Discovery/ The Nation Award, a Writers at Work Fellowship, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer. Bryan is Professor of English at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas where he lives with his wife and three hell beasts.

FREDERIC S. DURBIN has been writing for grownups and children since his first novel, Dragonfly, was published by Arkham House in 1999. His short work has appeared in Cricket, Cicada, Black Gate, Weird Tales, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Challenge: Discovery! and Mountains of Madness Revealed. He is the author of the middle-grade fantasy The Star Shard and the horror novella The Bone Man. His novel A Green and Ancient Light was named a Best Fantasy of the year by Publishers Weekly and a Reading List Honor Book by the American Library Association. Since 2019, he has co-edited the annual speculative fiction anthology series Cold Hard Type for Loose Dog Press. He lives in western Pennsylvania with his wife and an alarming number of manual typewriters.

JOHN R. FULTZ is a California writer originally from Kentucky. His novels include Seven Princes (2012), Seven Kings (2013), and Seven Sorcerers 2013), as well as The Testament of Tall Eagle (2015) and Son of Tall Eagle (2017). His short stories have appeared in The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Weird Tales, Black Gate, Weirdbook, That Is Not Dead, Shattered Shields, Lightspeed, Way of the Wizard, Cthulhu’s Reign, and plenty of other strange and wonderful places. His latest story collection is Worlds Beyond Worlds (2021).

ROBERT GUFFEY is a lecturer in the Department of English at California State University — Long Beach. His most recent books are Widow of the Amputation and Other Weird Crimes Eraserhead Press, 2021) and Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Crossroad Press, 2021). 2017 marked the publication of Until the Last Dog Dies (Night Shade/Skyhorse), a darkly satirical novel about a young stand-up comedian who must adapt as best he can to an apocalyptic virus that destroys only the humor centers of the brain. Guffey’s previous books include the journalistic memoir Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security (OR Books, 2015), which Flavorwire called, “By many miles, the weirdest and funniest book of [the year].” A graduate of the famed Clarion Writers Workshop in Seattle, he has also written a collection of three novellas entitled Spies & Saucers (PS Publishing, 2014). His first book of nonfiction, Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form, was published in 2012. He’s written stories and articles for numerous magazines and anthologies, among them The Believer, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Black Dandy, The Evergreen Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mailer Review, Phantom Drift, Postscripts, Rosebud, Salon, The Third Alternative, and TOR.

GEOFFREY HART works as a scientific editor, specializing in helping scientists who have English as their second language publish their research. He also writes fiction in his spare time, and has sold 58 stories thus far. He mentions that he recently sold a story to Analog.

NICHOLAS KAUFMANN is the bestselling author of seven novels and two short story collections. His work has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Thriller Award, and the Dragon Award. His short fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Black Static, Nightmare Magazine, Interzone, and others. In addition to his own original work, he has written for such properties as Zombies vs. Robots, The Rocketeer, and Warhammer. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two ridiculous cats.

TIM LEES is the author of the “Field Ops” books for HarperVoyager (The God Hunter, Devil in the Wires and Steal the Lightning and the much-praised Frankenstein’s Prescription Brooligan Press/Tartarus), described by Publisher’s Weekly as “a philosophically insightful and literary tale of terror”. Originally from Manchester, England, he now lives in Chicago. When not writing he has held a variety of odd jobs, including film extra, conference organizer, teacher, lizard-bottler for a museum, and worker on the rehab wards of a psychiatric hospital.

GORDON LINZNER is founder and former editor of Space and Time Magazine, and author of three published novels and scores of short stories in F&SF, Twilight Zone, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, and numerous other magazines and anthologies. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and a lifetime member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.

WILL MURRAY is the author of more than seventy-five books and novels, including The Wild Adventures series, which stars Doc Savage, King Kong, Tarzan of the Apes, John Carter of Mars, Sherlock Holmes, The Shadow, The Spider and other classic characters. The Wild Adventures of Cthulhu collects his Cthulhu Mythos stories. For Marvel Comics, he created The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. A contributor to numerous Lovecraftian journals and anthologies, Murray was one of the principal founders of the Friends of H. P. Lovecraft, which placed the Lovecraft memorial plaque on the grounds of the John Hay Library on the occasion of Lovecraft’s centennial 1990.

ROBERT M. PRICE describes himself as “Freethinker, Author, Teacher, Speaker, Debater, Editor, Anthologist, Columnist, Podcaster and Heretic,” and indeed excels in all those fields. He is the editor of the long-running Crypt of Cthulhu magazine, a Hierophant of the Horde who has memorably preached at Cthulhu prayer breakfasts (some of his best such effusions have been collected in The Sermon on the Mound and Others (2011). His more serious works include a great deal of Lovecraft scholarship, plus the “Cycle” series of anthologies for Chaosium (The Innsmouth Cycle, etc.) and others including Acolytes of Cthulhu, Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos, The New Lovecraft Circle, Worlds of Cthulhu, etc. Much of his own Mythos fiction is collected in Blasphemies and Revelations.

ANN K. SCHWADER lives and writes in Colorado. Her latest collection of weird verse is Unquiet Stars (Weird House Press 2021). She is a two-time Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Poetry Collection, and a two-time Rhysling Award winner. Her poems have recently appeared in Spectral Realms, Star*Line, Dreams & Nightmares, Abyss & Apex, and elsewhere. She is an Active member of SFWA and HWA, and was the Poet Laureate for Necronomicon Providence 2015.

KEITH TAYLOR was born in Tasmania and grew up in picturesque Hobart. He reports that he was always a voracious reader and started writing aged nine. He became a Robert E. Howard fan early. His professional start came with the publication of his “Felimid the Bard” stories in Fantastic Stories, in the 1970s. Collaborations with Andrew J. Offutt, featuring Robert E. Howard’s character Cormac mac Art, followed. So did five novels about Felimid the Bard. Other series characters include Nasach, an Irish fisherman’s son and tough escaped slave, and Kamose, an archpriest and sorcerer of ancient Egypt.

Several stories appeared in British editor Mike Ashley’s anthologies such as The Camelot Chronicles and Shakespearean Whodunnits. Illness about fourteen years ago interrupted Keith’s writing, but since then he’s returned to work. A weird horror novel, Damned from Birth, is still looking for a publisher. Current projects are a sixth Felimid novel and a historical murder mystery. He lives in Melbourne with his wife Anna and son Francis.

HARRY TURTLEDOVE earned a Ph.D. in Byzantine history, but has spent his life telling lies for a living rather than in scholarship. He has published about a hundred books and two hundred pieces of short fiction. They include alternate history, other science fiction, fantasy (much of it historically based), and the occasional bit of historical fiction. His latest books are Through Darkest Europe and Alpha and Omega. He is married to fellow writer and Broadway scholar Laura Frankos. They have three daughters and two granddaughters, and share their house with too many books and three over-privileged cats.

DON WEBB teaches a course in horror writing for UCLA Extension. A popular occult writer as well as practitioner of the old Weird, Don’s latest two books are Building Strange Temples (from Ramble House) and the bestselling Energy Magic of the Vampyre (a how-to volume from Inner Traditions).