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Authors
'Simmons draws from a well with waters dark and deep, that taste of guilt, despair and fear, to cultivate his surprising and inventive tales of horror.' — ADAM NEVILL (British Fantasy Award Winning author of THE RITUAL and NO ONE GETS OUT ALIVE). William Simmons is an acclaimed author, critic, anthologist, and journalist specializing in supernatural horror fiction. He is an Active Member of the HWA. Eight of his stories received ‘Honorable Mentions’ in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. His collection WE FEED THE DARK received accolades from such horror legends as ADAM NEVILL, ERIC J. GUINGARD, and FORREST AGUIRRE. “Avoiding horror’s traditional icons and their premeasured fright potential ... (Simmons is) a writer whose approach is both original and refreshingly unconventional.”
- PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY His collection BY REASON OF DARKNESS received rave reviews from Cemetery Dance, All Hallows, and Publisher's Weekly, who called him Simmons “…evokes both Ray Bradbury and Joyce Carol Oates.” – PETER BELL, All Hallows His first collection BECOMING OCTOBER sold out quickly upon release, and he collaborated on the Halloween collection DARK HARVEST with author Paul Melznick. His stories have appeared in several venues, including Cemetery Dance, Flesh & Blood, Darkness Rising (1-9), Infinity Plus, Dark Discoveries, and many more. His poetry has appeared in Chizine, Gothic.net, Lullaby Hearse, Dead Cat Bouncing, etc. GRAHAM MASTERTON, author of The Minatou, said Simmons “has the gift of making an ordinary day seem scary.” NANCY KILPATRICK, author of The Goth Bible, said “Simmons has a knack for constructing dark, creepy, introverted tales, full of obscure terrors that reflect nearly mythical realms.” And T.M. WRIGHT, author of Strange Seed, compared Simmons’ horror fiction to “like being taken back forty years and discovering Poe for the first time, and M.R. James, and Shirley Jackson.” Simmons has contributed reviews, essays, and scholarship to Rue Morgue, Publisher’s Weekly, Wormwood, Hellnotes, Gauntlet, Cemetery Dance, and others. His review columns include “Dark Devotions”, “Literary Lesions”, and “Folk Fears”. He contributed an introduction to Falling into Heaven, by Maynard & Sims, and his reviews have been blurbed for several books. As a journalist, he created Our Ladies of Darkness, one of the earlier interview columns devoted to female genre authors, and Beyond the Fifth Dimension: The Twilight Zone Interviews, which spoke with surviving scribes of the influential television series. He also conducted two special chapbook length interviews with Richard Matheson and F. Paul Wilson, both for Gauntlet Press. His reviews have been used as blurbs by Tartan Asian Extreme and he has contributed Liner Notes to DVD releases. “His anthologies are carefully crafted, the stories bleeding into each other with seamless precision.” – MAYNARD & SIMS, Demon Eyes. As an anthologist he has edited the bestselling SEASON OF THE DEAD: SUPERNATURAL HORROR FOR HALLOWEEN (reviewed by Rue Morgue) and the bestselling WILDWOOD: TALES OF TERROR & TRANSFORMATION FROM THE FOREST. His other anthologies are MONSTER CARNIVAL and YULETIDE FRIGHTS. He is the series editor for Shadow House Publishing has several anthologies and single author collections in development. for Shadow House Publishing, including The Library of Weird Fiction and Horror Hall of Fame Novellas.
Joe Konrath has written over a dozen novels in the Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels thriller series. They do not have to be read chronologically to be enjoyed, but the order is: Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, Rusty Nail, Dirty Martini, Fuzzy Navel, Cherry Bomb, Shaken, Stirred, Rum Runner, Last Call, White Russian, Shot Girl, and Chaser. More coming soon. If you love Jack Daniels and her cast of supporting characters, you should know about the Jack Daniels and Associates Mysteries, which include the titles Dead On My Feet, Dying Breath, Everybody Dies, Shot of Tequila, Serial Killers Uncut (with Blake Crouch), Jack Daniels Stories Vols 1-4, and Banana Hammock. Wow, that's a lot of Jack. If you like your thrillers on the dark side, check out the Konrath Dark Thriller Collective, which includes the books The List, Origin, Afraid, Trapped, Endurance, Haunted House, Webcam, Disturb, What Happened To Lori, The Nine, Close Your Eyes, and Second Coming. Joe also wrote the Stop A Murder mystery puzzle series, where you become the sleuth and solve brain teasers to try and catch a killer. He also wrote the sci-fi trilogy, Timecaster, Timecaster Supersymmetry, and Timecaster Steampunk. Even if you don't think you like sci-fi, give them a try. They feature Joe's well-known characters from his other series, and are insane. With Ann Voss Peterson he wrote the Codename: Chandler thrillers, including Flee, Spree, Three, Hit, Exposed, Naughty, Fix (with F. Paul Wilson), and Rescue. And, finally, he wrote erotica under the pen name Melinda DuChamp, also with Ann Voss Peterson. Joe writes a lot. You should probably read everything. You can visit Joe and sign up for his newsletter at www.JAKonrath.com/mailing-list.php
AKA A.J. Matthews Rick Hautala has more than thirty published books to his credit, including the million copy, international best-seller Nightstone, as well as Twilight Time, Little Brothers, Cold Whisper, Impulse, and The Wildman. He has also published four novels—The White Room, Looking Glass, Unbroken, and Follow—using the pseudonym A. J. Matthews. His more than sixty published short stories have appeared in national and international anthologies and magazines. His short story collection Bedbugs was selected as one of the best horror books of the year in 2003. A novella titled Reunion was published by PS Publications in December, 2009; and Occasional Demons, a short story collection, is due in 2010 from CD Publications. He wrote the screenplays for several short films, including the multiple award-winning The Ugly Film, based on the short story by Ed Gorman, as well as Peekers, based on a short story by Kealan Patrick Burke, and Dead @ 17, based on the graphic novel by Josh Howard. A graduate of the University of Maine in Orono with a Master of Art in English Literature (Renaissance and Medieval Literature), Hautala lives in southern Maine with author Holly Newstein. His three sons have all grown up and (mostly) moved out of the house. He served terms as Vice President and Trustee for the Horror Writers Association. Sadly, Rick died on March 21, 2013.
Stewart O'Nan is the author of eighteen novels, including Emily, Alone; Last Night at the Lobster; A Prayer for the Dying; Snow Angels; and the forthcoming Ocean State, due out from Grove/Atlantic on March 8th, 2022. With Stephen King, I’ve also co-written Faithful, a nonfiction account of the 2004 Boston Red Sox, and the e-story “A Face in the Crowd.” You can catch me at stewart-onan.com, on Twitter @stewartonan and on Facebook @stewartONanAuthor
Subscribe to myNewsletter Join my street team on Facebook to win prizes, discuss my work with others, and get exclusive content and offers David Niall Wilson has been writing and publishing horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction since the mid-eighties. An ordained minister, once President of the Horror Writer 's Association and multiple recipient of the Bram Stoker Award. He lives outside Hertford, NC with the love of his life, Patricia Lee Macomber, His children Zane and Katie, occasionally their older siblings, Stephanie, who is in college, and Bill and Zach who are in the Navy, and an ever-changing assortment of pets. David is CEO and founder of Crossroad Press, a cutting edge digital publishing company specializing in electronic novels, collections, and nonfiction, as well as unabridged audiobooks and print titles.
