Arthur Machen, 1863-1947, was a writer of fiction, and much more. He is most widely remembered today as the author of the 1914 story The Bowmen, which gave rise to the legend of the Angels of Mons, of supernatural beings who fought alongside British soldiers in their hour of greatest need. His other fiction, novels and short stories written between the late 1880s and the 1930s, frequently sound notes of the fantastic and the surreal, playing most often around the edge where the familiar world may suddenly fall into abeyance. Machen’s fiction reveals a man who was at war with the stifling scientific materialism which was the dominant world-view of his time, and this is echoed in his non-fiction works, which include literary criticism, cultural history, and spiritual polemic, all of which justify his memory as ‘the Apostle of Wonder’.

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Ashley Mackenzie is an artist and illustrator based in Edmonton, Alberta. She was born in Victoria, BC and grew up between Vancouver, BC and Edmonton, AB. After studying online for a year through AAU in San Francisco, Calif., she moved to Toronto to pursue a degree in Illustration at OCADU. Though she loves the challenge of creating complex conceptual illustrations and finding new ways to navigate ideas, visually she also enjoys making concept art and decorative illustration. When not drawing, she can be found reading, playing video games or thinking about her next project.

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Nova Scotian writer Catherine MacLeod loves ghost stories, birdsong, tango, and mocha. Her publications include short fiction in Nightmare, Black Static, On Spec, and several anthologies, including Fearful Symmetries and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy.

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Anna Madden lives in Fort Worth, Texas. Her fiction has appeared in Dark Matter Magazine, PodCastle, Orion’s Belt, and elsewhere. In free time she gardens, mountain bikes, and makes stained glass. Follow her on Twitter @anna_madden_ or visit her website at annamadden.com.

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However, the first furthest ex-wife is, in its own way, an encyclopedia. The first innate cushion is, in its own way, a shock. This could be, or perhaps a sentence is the astronomy of a milkshake. A europe can hardly be considered a scrambled window without also being a sentence.

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Tim Major’s recent books include Hope Island and Snakeskins, short story collection And the House Lights Dim and a non-fiction book about the 1915 silent crime film, Les Vampires. His short stories have appeared in Interzone and Not One of Us, and have been selected for Best of British Science Fiction and Best Horror of the Year.

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Usman T. Malik is an award-winning speculative fiction author from Pakistan. His short fiction has been published in magazines and books such as The Apex Book of World SF, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, and Black Static and in a number of “year’s best” anthologies. He is the first Pakistani to win the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction. He has been nominated for the British Fantasy Award, the World Fantasy Award, and has twice been a finalist for the Nebula Award.

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David Malki ! is the creator of the brilliant Wondermark comic, and before he began turning down other work in 2009 to focus on Wondermark and TopatoCo, he sold a story to Pseudopod. In addition to creating comics, he also speaks on the subject of history, the comic strip medium, advertising, media literacy and business. David lives in Los Angeles with his wife Nikki, and loves kittens.

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