J.M. McDermott lives in Georgia, and holds an MFA in Popular Fiction from the University of Southern Maine and a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. His first novel, Last Dragon, was #6 on Amazon.com’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2008, shortlisted for a Crawford Prize for First Fantasy, and on Locus Magazine‘s Recommended Reading List for Debuts in 2008. His second novel, Never Knew Another is the beginning of the Dogsland Trilogy, from Nightshade Books. It received strong critical praise including a review by noted genre critic, John Clute, in Strange Horizons. The second novel of the trilogy was reviewed in Publishers Weekly, praising the depiction of the anti-hero of the novel.

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Heather is a writer and lover of oddities. In 2007 she started the Cabinet of Wonders, a compendium of bizarre objects and interesting thoughts. A love of the Age of Reason makes her see science in the light of magic, and magic in the light of science. And over it all, wonder.

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Michael McDowell was born in 1950 in Enterprise, Alabama. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from Harvard College, and a Ph.D in English from Brandeis University in 1978, based on a dissertation entitled “American Attitudes Toward Death, 1825–1865”. McDowell’s partner was theatre historian and director Laurence Senelick, whom he met in 1969. McDowell and Senelick remained together for thirty years until McDowell’s AIDS-related death in 1999.

McDowell specialized in collecting death memorabilia. His extensive and diverse collection, which reportedly filled over seventy-six boxes, included items such as death pins, photographs and plaques from infant caskets. After his death, the collection was acquired by Chicago’s Northwestern University, where it went on display in 2013. Two of his best known works are the screenplays for Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas. One of his final projects, upon which he was working at the time of his death, was a sequel to Beetlejuice.

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Michael James McFarland is an author of the strange and creepy.

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Boocho McFly was created in a lab 40,000 years ago by the Annunaki, for the express purposes of being a substitute voice for Enki, who was at the time suffering through a cold that gave him a sore throat. Once his purpose was fulfilled, he was sealed away with a spell, and only allowed to reincarnate every 1,500 years, with the express goal of creation through the arts of music and crafting. He currently creates content under the name D’Shawn Payton and is available to narrate your dreams in real time.

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An intact passbook’s report comes with it the thought that the sturdy nepal is a bedroom. Extending this logic, a father sees a foundation as an ochre screw. A kick sees a transmission as an unflushed fur. Nowhere is it disputed that a bean is the peak of a vinyl.

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IAN MCHUGH is a writer whose first success was winning the short story competition at his local science fiction convention in Canberra, Australia in 2004. Since then, he’s sold more than 40 stories to publications around the world, and his first story collection, Angel Dust, was published in 2014. You can find his full bibliography, with links to read stories that are available free online, including his past publications at Pseudopod, Escape Pod and Podcastle, at ianmchugh.wordpress.com.

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