Amy Catherine “Jane” Wells (née Robbins) (1872-1927) was a versatile artist and writer. Her husband, H.G. Wells, collected her fiction into THE BOOK OF CATHERINE WELLS in 1928, following her untimely death at age 55 the year before. She is known to have written at least two genre works, this story another called “Fear.”
Martha Wells has been an SF/F writer since her first fantasy novel was published in 1993, and her work includes The Books of the Raksura series, the Ile-Rien series, The Murderbot Diaries series, and other fantasy novels, most recently Witch King (Tordotcom, 2023). She has also written media tie-in fiction for Star Wars, Stargate: Atlantis, and Magic: the Gathering, as well as short fiction, YA novels, and non-fiction. She has won Nebula Awards, Hugo Awards, Locus Awards, an Alex Award, and a Dragon Award, and her work has appeared on the World Fantasy Award ballot, the Philip K. Dick Award ballot, the BSFA Award ballot, the USA Today Bestseller List, the Sunday Times Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List. She is a member of the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, and her books have been published in thirty languages.She is also a consulting producer on the Murderbot series for Apple TV+.
Thomas Welsh lives in Glasgow, Scotland and has written fiction for two years now. His first novel Anna Undreaming – the first part of the Metiks Fade fantasy trilogy – will be released in January 2018. You can find out more about his published short fiction and prize winning short stories on his website, CalmDownTom.com.
Alex’s work has appeared in The Toronto Star, Rue Morgue, Famous Monsters of Filmland, and Shock Till You Drop. Her writing has also been published in The Supernatural Cinema of Guillermo del Toro: Critical Essays, Art of the Title and Offscreen Film Journal. She has lectured on theatre and film in schools in Ontario, Québec and Cambridge, Massachusetts, including two lectures as part of The Black Museum lecture series: “Ghosts in the Machine: The Evolution of Found Footage Horror“ (2013) and “Quelle Horreur: The Films of New French Extremity“ (2014).
Alexandra’s first book, Films of New French Extremity: Visceral Horror and National Identity, is available through McFarland. Her upcoming book The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle: Final Girls and New Hollywood Formula is also available via McFarland for pre-order.
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B.J. West is a writer, filmmaker and graphic artist, and has worked on some of the best-selling computer games of all time including The Sims, SimCity 3000, The Sims Online and The Sims 2.
He was the editor of “Fog City Nocturne,” an anthology of original detective fiction (Apocryphile Press), as well as contributing two novella length stories to the book.
He has written numerous screenplays, including his adaptation of Keoni Chavez’s short story “The Smiling Man,” which he produced and directed as a short film in 2007.
Jack Westlake is a writer of dark fiction, which has appeared in Black Static, BFS Horizons, previously on PseudoPod, and elsewhere. He lives in the U.K., and is currently working on a novel.
His work has appeared in print and online, details of which can be found on his Bibliography page.
According to Edith Wharton, the judge of a good ghost story is thermometrical — it should send the cold shiver down one’s spine. She’s best known for her novels, some of which you may have read in school. In 1921, she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. But we love her best for her gothic and ghostly tales.
During his lifetime Edward Lucas White was known for several historical novels that were critical and commercial successes: El Supremo (1916), The Unwilling Vestal (1918), and Andivius Hedulio (1921), the latter two of which H. P. Lovecraft later recommended to Fritz Leiber as “the finest modern fictional reflections” he’d read about the Roman Empire. Each of these three books went through a dozen printings and sold widely for more than a quarter of a century. However, he is best remembered for his contribution to weird fiction in this story.