She Walks in Shadows (38 page)

Selena Chambers
writes twenty miles south of the Black Lagoon. Her fiction has appeared in a variety of venues, including
Mungbeing Magazine
,
New Myths
, and
Yankee Pot Roast
, and in anthologies such as the World Fantasy-nominated
Thackery T. Lambshead’s Cabinet Of Curiosities
,
The New Gothic
,
Steampunk World,
and
The Starry Wisdom Library
. Her non-fiction has appeared at Tor.com, Bookslut, WeirdFictionReview.com, and
Strange Horizons
(where she was also the articles senior editor for two years). Her first book, the Hugo and World Fantasy-nominated
The Steampunk Bible,
was co-authored with the award-winning Jeff VanderMeer. She blogs irregularly at www.selenachambers.com.

Arinn Dembo
is a prize-winning author of SF, fantasy and horror. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in
The Magazine of F&SF
,
H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror
,
Weird Tales
,
Lamp Light Quarterly
, and various anthologies. Single-author books include a military science fiction novel,
The Deacon’s Tale
, and a collection called
Monsoon and Other Stories
. In addition to a long career as a writer in the entertainment industry, she holds degrees in anthropology and classical archaeology, fields which often provide grist for the mill of her horror stories. Follow her on social media or visit her website, www.arinndembo.com, for more information.

Jilly Dreadful
completed her Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She’s the founder of The Brainery: Online Speculative Fiction Workshops + Resources. She’s currently an associate editor of
NonBinary Review
and
Unbound Octavo
, and her major work includes
Light & Power: A Tesla/Edison Story
, a chamber opera with music composed by Isaac Schankler. Together with her writing partner, KT Ismael, she will be releasing a serialized fiction podcast that takes the feminist emphasis on friendship from
Parks and Recreation,
and mixes it with a Lovecraftian strangeness — stay tuned for it at blueprintandengine.com.

Former film critic and teacher-turned-award-winning horror author
Gemma Files
is probably best-known for her Weird Western Hexslinger series (
A Book of Tongues
,
A Rope of Thorns
, and
A Tree of Bones
, all from ChiZine Publications). She has also published two collections of short fiction, two chapbooks of speculative poetry, and a story cycle (
We Will All Go Down Together: Stories of the Five-Family Coven
, CZP). Her next book,
Experimental Film
— also from CZP — will be released in November 2015.

Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas
is a Mexican writer who just moved to the UK. She lives in South Yorkshire with her husband. There, she misses her cats more than anything in the world. Her stories have appeared in anthologies like
Future Lovecraft
and
The Apex Book of World SF 3
. She can be found online at http://www.nellygeraldine.com or tweeting mostly in Spanish @kitsune_ng

Amelia Gorman
is a computer science student living in Minnesota.

Lyndsey Holder
enjoys long walks on the beach, eating too much chocolate, and writing paranoid fiction. She’s currently writing a novel that is part pulp noir, part eldritch horror, and part teen detective.

Pandora Hope
has a BA in English and has worked as a copywriter, science writer, editor and runologist when not moonlighting as a
volva
(a Norse witch). She has recently begun to write fiction and her first short story, “The Ferry Man,” appeared in
Interzone
(January 2015). She is currently working on a novel set in the same world. Pandora credits Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls” as responsible for her first experience of night terrors and, paradoxically, a lifelong affection for rats. She lives in Australia with her partner and what may well be Melbourne’s only rat-friendly Norwegian Forest Cat.

Inkeri Kontro
is an award-winning Finnish short story writer who lives in Helsinki. Physicist by day, writer by night, she writes mostly science fiction and Finnish Weird with a touch of horror. She has published stories in magazines such as
Kosmoskynä
and
Tähtivaeltaja
, and her English debut was in
Strange Horizons
in 2014.

Penelope Love
is an Australian who has written extensively for the tabletop role-playing game
Call of Cthulhu
, including contributing scenarios to the award-winning
Horror on the Orient Express
campaign. Her Cthulhu Mythos short stories have been published in
Cthulhu’s Dark Cults,
Madness on the Orient Express,
and
Tales of Cthulhu Invictus
. Her work also appears in the award-winning anthologies,
One Small Step
and
Belong
. Her story “A Small Bad Thing” was first published in
Bloodstones
and reprinted in
The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2013
.

Sharon Mock’s
short stories have appeared in publications including
Fantasy Magazine
,
Clarkesworld
and
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
. She lives in California and can be found online at sharonmock.com.

Despite the warnings of her family that studying science would warp her tender mind and shrivel her womb,
Premee Mohamed
completed degrees in molecular genetics and environmental science, and has used those disciplines to pursue the improvement of mankind’s lot, somewhat ineffectually, for over a decade. When not performing mad science, she blogs regularly, tweets less regularly, paints, draws, writes, worries about the supernatural, and annotates her paperback copy of
The Necronomicon
.

Eugenie Mora
is a writer of fanciful, occasionally creepy, sometimes sweet, stories. In her spare time, she makes a science of hating walks on the beach, bird and TV-watching. Considers herself a music ninja. Professional reader. Passionate troublemaker. Food aficionado. Wine practitioner.

Ann K. Schwader’s
most recent collection of dark verse is
Twisted in Dream
. Her next collection,
Dark Energies
, is forthcoming from P’rea Press. Her fiction and poetry have recently appeared in
Black Wings IV
,
Searchers After Horror
,
A Season in Carcosa
, and elsewhere. She is a 2010 Bram Stoker Award finalist for her dark SF verse collection
Wild Hunt of the Stars
.

Rodopi Sisamis
lives and writes out of Brooklyn, NY, where she raises Hellion triplets, and lives with a dog and a cat. When she isn’t devouring books, or running after children, she can be found spinning tales of romance and dark fantasy. “Cypress God” is her third contribution to an anthology.

Specializing in dark fantasy and horror,
Angela Slatter
has won five Aurealis Awards, been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award, and is the first Australian to win a British Fantasy Award. She’s the author of, among other things,
The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales
,
Sourdough and Other Stories
, and
The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings
. Forthcoming from Jo Fletcher Books is the novel,
Vigil,
and its sequel
Corpselight
.

Priya Sridhar
has been writing since fifth grade, a year after her mother forbade her from watching television all day. This led to several published short stories, one of which made the Top Ten Amazon Kindle Download list, and Alban Lake publishing her novella
Carousel
. She invites readers to read her blog a Faceless Author at http://pseudonymousfictionwriter.blogspot.com.

Benjanun Sriduangkaew
writes love letters to strange cities, beautiful bugs, and the future. Her work has appeared in Tor.com,
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
,
Phantasm Japan
,
The Dark,
and year’s bests. She has been shortlisted for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and her debut novella
Scale-Bright
has been nominated for the British SF Association Award.

Molly Tanzer
is the author of the Weird Western,
Vermilion,
and the forthcoming historical novel,
The Pleasure Merchant
. Her debut collection,
A Pretty Mouth
, was nominated for a Sydney J. Bounds and a Wonderland Book Award. Her short fiction has appeared in other Innsmouth titles such as
Historical Lovecraft
and
Fungi
, as well as other venues such as
The Book(s) of Cthulhu
,
The Book of the Dead
, and
Children of Old Leech
. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and a very bad cat. When not writing, she enjoys mixing cocktails, hiking in the Rocky Mountains, and experimenting with Korean cooking. She tweets @molly_the_tanz, and blogs — infrequently — at http://mollytanzer.com.

E. Catherine Tobler’s
short stories have appeared in C
larkesworld
,
Lightspeed
, and
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
. Her first novel,
Rings of Anubis
, is now available. Follow her on Twitter @ECthetwit or her website, ecatherine.com.

Mary Turzillo’s
1999 Nebula-winner, “Mars Is no Place for Children,” and her
Analog
novel,
An
Old-Fashioned Martian Girl,
are recommended reading on the International Space Station. Her poetry collection
Lovers & Killers
won the 2013 Elgin Award. She has been a finalist on the British Science Fiction Association, Pushcart, Stoker, Dwarf Stars, and Rhysling ballots.
Sweet Poison
, her Dark Renaissance collaboration with Marge Simon, was a Stoker finalist.
Sweet Poison
is on the 2015 Elgin ballot. She’s working on a novel,
A Mars Cat and his Boy
. She lives in Berea, Ohio, with her scientist-writer husband, Geoffrey A. Landis.

Valerie Valdes
earned her BA in English at the University of Miami, with minors in creative writing and working too many jobs. She still lives in Miami with her husband and his miniature doppelganger. Valerie took the brakes off her roller blades because they only slowed her down.

Wendy N. Wagner
is the author of
Skinwalkers
, a Pathfinder Tales novel inspired by Viking lore. Her short fiction has appeared in many successful anthologies, including
Shattered Shields
,
Armored
, and
The Way of the Wizard
, and magazines like
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
and
The Lovecraft eZine
. She is the non-fiction editor of
Women Destroy Science Fiction!,
which was named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2014. She lives in Oregon with her very understanding family.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Sara Bardi
 is an illustrator and conceptual artist born in a port town that she likes to consider the Italian equivalent of Innsmouth. Her illustrations have been featured in Italian and international publications, indie games and animated series. She first came across H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction during her high school years and got totally enthralled by his uncanny universe. Because of her precocious love for gothic themes and heavily Disney-influenced artistic background, Sara always liked to portrait dark characters under a gentler light and show how even the ‘cute’ and unsuspected ones can be ruthless foes. In 2013, she began to serialize a webcomic titled 
Lovely Lovecraft,
 which explores HPL’s cosmic horror through the eyes of fearless kids and Eldritch Gods that could probably use a hug.

Shelby Denham
 was born and raised in Oregon where she was often inspired by the comics and movies she loved. She recently moved to Florida to work for the Mouse, but that doesn’t keep her from illustrating the macabre.

Sara K. Diesel
 is an award-winning digital artist working in Pittsburgh. Her work reflects her passion for all things science fiction, fantasy, and surreal. Using combinations of vivid color, her artwork contains an illuminated quality otherwise lost in traditional mediums.

Lisa Grabenstetter
 draws inspiration from artists of the Symbolist movement, from Art Nouveau, and from contemporary fantasy and comic book illustrators. Working primarily in ink, graphite and watercolor, and the occasional hand-pulled print. A 2008 graduate of The Cleveland Institute of Art, Lisa has a BFA in printmaking and a minor in drawing. See more at http://magneticcrow.com

Karen Ann Hollingsworth
 is a fantasy children’s illustrator and fine artist living in the Chicago area. Working either in the notoriously unforgiving media of watercolor and colored pencil or simply in black-and-white, she strives to invoke a sense of magic and wonder in every image. Visit her website and see for yourself: Wrenditions.com.

C.L. Lewis
 is a fantasy artist. She was born in Tampa, Florida. She began drawing monsters and dragons when she was four. Cindy’s family moved to Mt. Carmel, Illinois during her high school years. She attended Wabash Valley College, winning a degree in art and numerous awards. Her professor and family, especially her father, encouraged her to continue developing her talent. In recent years she has undertaken numerous commissions, including tattoos, book illustrations and paintings. Her work is in many residences throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. She resides in Toledo, Ohio, with her husband and five cats.