She Walks in Shadows (39 page)

Pia Ravenari
 is an artist and writer living in Western Australia. Her artwork expresses a constant ongoing fascination with natural history, archetypal fables, sacred tales, modern mythopoeia, and the challenging aspects of humanity. She’s worked as an illustrator of book covers and internal illustrations in the past, across a range of subjects, and was nominated for a Ditmar award in 2014 for her cover art for 
Prickle Moon
 by Juliet Marillier. She prefers traditional mediums over digital, and her staples are pen, ink and pencils.

Liv Rainey-Smith
 specializes in the superannuated art of hand-pulled xylographic prints. She designs, cuts and prints her original woodcut editions in Portland, Oregon. Her publications include 
Arcanum Bestiarum,
from Three Hands Press, and 
Starry Wisdom Library,
 from P.S. Publishing. She is a regular guest and Pickman’s Apprentice competitor at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. She serves as Art Show Liaison for the Esoteric Book Conference in Seattle, Washington and volunteers with Print Arts Northwest. Rainey-Smith received her BFA from the Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2008.

Diana Thung
 makes comics. Her graphic novels include 
Captain Long Ears
 and 
August Moon
. She lives with her two dogs in Sydney, Australia.

Kathryn Weaver
 is an illustrator and writer whose work has previously been published in 
Apex Magazine
, 
The Toast
, and 
Lackington’s
. She lives in Minneapolis with her girlfriend and two birds. Her portfolio can be found at 
http://kathrynmweaver.com
.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA’
s debut novel, 
Signal to Noise
, about music, magic and Mexico City, has been called “a magical first novel” by 
The Guardian
 and an “elaborate symphony of awesome that defies simple definitions” by 
Kirkus
. Her first collection, 
This Strange Way of Dying
, was a finalist for The Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. She has worked on several anthologies, including 
Dead North
 and 
Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse
.

A saltgunning medieval historian and author of three novels, over forty short stories, a non-fiction book, and lots of articles, 
PAULA R. STILES
 is currently working on her fifth degree, in Historic Preservation Technology, when she’s not editing everything on Innsmouth Free Press. She currently lives in eastern North Carolina with an elderly, flatulant dog and a clowder of alarmingly optimistic cats. You can find her on Facebook, Twitter @thesnowleopard, and at thesnowleopard.net.

Money for this project was raised via a crowdfunding campaign. During the campaign we utilized artist Lisa Grabenstetter’s squid to promote
She Walks in Shadows
. We thought it would be fitting that it appear here to thank everyone involved with this project including backers, writers, artists, proofreaders and associate creatures. It’s been a blast.

THIS VILE TOME
collects thirteen blasphemous tales of a certain scribe named Nick Mamatas. Warning: May contain shoggoths, martial arts, weirdness, Nyarlathotep, fish people from Innsmouth, and copious literary references. With an introduction by Orrin Grey and a bevy of disturbing alchemical illustrations by GMB Chomichuk. Side effects may include hallucinations and a steep descent into insanity

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THREE NEW NOVELETTES
 inspired by Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, set against the background of the Roaring Twenties. Fiction by Jennifer Brozek, A.D. Cahill and Orrin Grey. Journey to Kansas City, the “Paris of the Plains,” a city of glamor and sin where cults, secret societies and music intermingle.Visit Assam, India, where a British dilettante wakes up one morning covered in bruises and welts, with a dead man in her bed and no memory of what happened in the last 24 hours. Her only clue is a trashed invitation to the exclusive Black Ram Club.Relax on the resort island of Pomptinia, an Italian enclave of wealthy socialites, expats and intellectuals. But beware — the sea conceals dark secrets.

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