The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Simon Bestwick is the author of four story collections, a chapbook, Angels of the Silences, and five novels, most recently Devil’s Highway and The Feast of All Souls. His work has been published in Black Static and Great Jones Street, podcast on Pseudopod and Tales to Terrify, and reprinted in Best Horror of the Year.

A new collection and a new novel, Wolf’s Hill, are both in the works, and his novelette Breakwater is forthcoming from Tor.com. Until recently, his hobbies included avoiding gainful employment, but this ended in failure and he now has a job again. Any and all assistance in escaping this dreadful fate would be most welcome. He lives on the Wirral with his long-suffering wife, the author Cate Gardner, and uses far too many semicolons.

Siobhan Carroll is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware, where she specializes in nineteenth-century literature and the history of exploration. She trained as a tall ship sailor on board the Kalmar Nyckel and qualified as a rigging-climber in 2012. All errors in nautical jargon and judgment are to be laid at her door rather than that of the Kalmar Nyckel crew. For more fiction by Siobhan Carroll, visit voncarr-siobhan-carroll.blogspot.com.

Ray Cluley’s work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies. It has been reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year series, Steve Berman’s Wilde Stories 2013: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction, and in Benoît Domis’s Ténèbres series. He has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Story and was nominated for Best Novella and Best Collection. His short fiction has been collected in the mini-collection Within the Wind, Beneath the Snow and Probably Monsters.

Bradley Denton was born in Kansas in 1958, and his first professional story appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1984. Since then, he’s published a few dozen more stories and five novels, including Buddy Holly Is Alive and Well on Ganymede, Blackburn, Lunatics, and Laughin’ Boy. His work has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, and Edgar Allan Poe awards—and it has won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the World Fantasy Award. Brad currently lives on the outskirts of Austin, Texas, with his wife, Barbara, and their dogs, Sugar and Tater. His most recent story collection is Sergeant Chip and Other Novellas.

Terry Dowling is one of Australia’s most respected and internationally acclaimed writers of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror. Dowling’s horror is collected in Basic Black: Tales of Appropriate Fear (International Horror Guild Award), Aurealis Award-winning An Intimate Knowledge of the Night, and the World Fantasy Award-nominated Blackwater Days. His most recent books are Amberjack: Tales of Fear & Wonder and his debut novel, Clowns at Midnight.

His newest collection, The Night Shop: Tales for the Lonely Hours, was recently published by Cemetery Dance Publications. His homepage is at terrydowling.com.

Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling author of Snowblind, Ararat, Tin Men, and many other novels. With Mike Mignola, he co-created the cult favorite comic book series Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. Many of his short stories are collected in Tell My Sorrows to the Stones. As editor, his anthologies include Seize the Night, The New Dead, and Dark Cities, among others. Golden has also written screenplays, radio plays, non-fiction, graphic novels, video games, and (with Amber Benson) the online animated series Ghosts of Albion. He is one-third of the pop culture podcast Three Guys with Beards.

Brian Hodge is one of those people who always have to be making something. So far, he’s made twelve novels, over 125 shorter works, and five full-length collections.

Recent and upcoming works include I’ll Bring You the Birds From Out of the Sky, a novella of cosmic horror with folk art illustrations; his next novel, The Immaculate Void, coming in early 2018; and a new collection, coming later in the year. Two recent Lovecraftian novelettes have been optioned for feature film and a TV series.

He lives in Colorado, where he also likes to make music and photographs; loves everything about organic gardening except the thieving squirrels; and trains in Krav Maga and kickboxing, which are of no use at all against the squirrels.

Connect through his website (brianhodge.net), Twitter (@BHodgeAuthor), or Facebook (facebook.com/brianhodgewriter).

Stephen Graham Jones is the author of sixteen novels and six story collections. Most recent are Mapping the Interior, from Tor.com, and the comic book My Hero, from Hex Publisher. Stephen lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.

John Langan is the author of two novels, The Fisherman and House of Windows, and two collections, The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies and Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters.

With Paul Tremblay, he co-edited Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters. One of the founders of the Shirley Jackson Awards, he serves on its Advisory Board. Currently, he reviews horror and dark fantasy for Locus magazine. Forthcoming is a new collection, Sefira and Other Betrayals. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife and younger son.

Seanan McGuire lives, works, and watches way too many horror movies in the Pacific Northwest, where she shares her home with her two enormous blue cats, a ridiculous number of books, and a large collection of creepy dolls.

McGuire does not sleep much, publishing an average of four books a year under both her own name and the pen name Mira Grant. Her first book, Rosemary and Rue, was released in September 2009, and she hasn’t stopped running since. When not writing, she enjoys Disney Parks, horror movies, and looking winsomely at Marvel editorial as she tries to convince them to let her write for the X-Men. Keep up with McGuire at seananmcguire.com, on Twitter as @seananmcguire, or by walking into a cornfield at night and calling the secret, hidden name of the Great Pumpkin to the moon. When you turn, she will be there. She will always have been there.

Michael Marshall Smith is a novelist and screenwriter. He has published over eighty short stories and four novels: Only Forward, Spares, One of Us, and The Servants—winning the Philip K. Dick, International Horror Guild, and August Derleth awards, along with the Prix Bob Morane in France. He has won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction four times, more than any other author. A new novel—Hannah Green and her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence—was published in July 2017.

Writing as Michael Marshall he has also published seven internationally bestselling thrillers, including The Straw Men series (currently in TV development), The Intruders—a BBCAmerica series in 2014 starring John Simm and Mira Sorvino—and Killer Move. His most recent novel is We Are Here.

He lives in Santa Cruz, California, with his wife, son, and two cats.

Steve Rasnic Tem’s last novel, Blood Kin, won the Bram Stoker Award. His new novel, UBO, is a dark science fictional tale about violence and its origins, featuring such historical viewpoint characters as Jack the Ripper, Stalin, and Heinrich Himmler. He is also a past winner of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards. Recently, a collection of the best of his uncollected horror—Out of the Dark: A Storybook of Horrors—was published by Centipede Press. A handbook on writing, Yours To Tell: Dialogues on the Art & Practice of Writing, written with his late wife, Melanie, is also out from Apex Books. In the Fall of 2018 Hex Publishers will bring out his middle-grade Halloween novel, The Mask Shop of Doctor Blaack.

Visit the Tem home on the web at: m-s-tem.com.

Lee Thomas is the two-time Lambda Literary Award- and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Stained, The Dust of Wonderland, The German, Torn, Like Light for Flies, and Down on Your Knees, among others. His work has been translated into multiple languages and has been optioned for film. Lee lives in Austin, Texas, with his husband, John.

A. C. Wise’s fiction has appeared in publications such as Clarkesworld, Tor.com, The Best Horror of the Year, and The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, among other places. She has two collections published by Lethe Press, The Ultra Fabulous Glitter Squadron Saves the World Again, and The Kissing Booth Girl and Other Stories, which was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. In addition to her fiction, she contributes a monthly review column to Apex Magazine. Visit her online at acwise.net.

Alyssa Wong lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and really, really likes crows. Her story “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” won the 2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story and the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, and she was a finalist for the 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award.

Her work has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, and Tor.com, among others. Alyssa can be found on Twitter as @crashwong.