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Nicola Griffith is a dual UK-US citizen living in Seattle. She is the author of nine novels including Hild, Spear, and the forthcoming Menewood. She has written for the New York Times, The Guardian, Nature, and New Scientist, and her awards include four Lambda Literary Awards, the Ray Bradbury Prize, and the Italia, and Nebula, World Fantasy, and Otherwise/Tiptree Awards. She holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University and is married to novelist and screenwriter Kelley Eskridge.
M. John Harrison, is a multi-award winning English author and literary critic. His work includes the Viriconium novels and short stories, Climbers, and the Kefahuchi Tract trilogy, which consists of Light, Nova Swing, and Empty Space. His most recent book, Wish I Was Here, has been referred to as an anti-memoir.
K. W. Jeter was born in Los Angeles in 1950. His novels include Dr. Adder, The Glass Hammer, and Infernal Devices. His most recent publication is Real Dangerous Place, the latest in his Kim Oh thriller series.
Kathe Koja is a writer and producer based in Detroit. Her work includes The Cipher, Skin, Under the Poppy, and Dark Factory.
Joel Lane was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, critic, and anthology editor. In addition to his dark fantasy and horror short fiction, Lane published two novels, From Blue to Black and The Blue Mask.
He received the World Fantasy Award in 2013 for his collection, Where Furnaces Burn, and won the British Fantasy Award twice. His short stories have been collected in seven volumes. He died in 2013.
Barry N. Malzberg is the author of more than thirty science fiction novels and hundreds of short stories, as well as several thrillers and erotic novels under his own name and various pseudonyms. He won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his 1972 novel, Beyond Apollo. His 1982 collection of critical essays, The Engines of the Night, was a major contribution to the field of science fiction.
Richard C. Matheson is a #1 bestselling author and screenwriter/producer. He has created, written, and produced acclaimed TV series, mini-series, and films, including cult favorite Three O’Clock High and Stephen King’s Battleground, which won two Emmys. Matheson’s short stories appear in his collections, Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks, Zoopraxis, Dystopia, and over one hundred anthologies, including Best of the Year volumes. His novels include Created By and The Ritual of Illusion.
Joyce Carol Oates is the author most recently of 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister, Babysitter, the novel Breathe, and the collection Night, Neon. She is a recipient of the Bram Stoker Award, the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Bram Stoker Life Achievement Award, the President’s National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize.
J. Calvin Pierce was the author of the Ambermere fantasy series. “Sahib” was one of two short stories he wrote. He died in 2021.
Nicholas Royle is the author of several short story collections, including, most recently, London Gothic and Manchester Uncanny, and seven novels. He has edited over twenty-five anthologies and is series editor of Best British Short Stories. He runs Nightjar Press, which publishes original short stories as signed, numbered chapbooks. His English translation of Vincent de Swarte’s 1998 novel Pharricide was published by Confingo Publishing in 2019. In 2021, his memoir, White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector, was published by Salt.
Wayne Allen Sallee primarily writes short fiction, and several of his stories were reprinted in Karl Edward Wagner’s The Year’s Best Horror Stories anthologies. All of his short fiction is being reprinted by Crossroad Press in Rapid Transit: Volumes 1–3. Sallee’s novel, The Holy Terror, has been published in five languages. He wrote Proactive Contrition, a memoir, and is currently updating Pain Grin, a chapbook that will include ruminations about the COVID pandemic and how it affected Chicago.
Lucius Shepard was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, grew up in Daytona, Florida, and lived the last years of his life in Portland, Oregon. His short fiction won the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, the International Horror Guild Award, the National Magazine Award, the Locus Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He died in 2014.
Lucy Taylor is an award-winning author who has published seven novels and over a hundred short stories in anthologies and magazines. Her most recent work can be found in the anthologies The Big Book of Blasphemy, Cutting Edge, A Fistful of Dinosaurs, and Vagabond 001, 002, and 003. Her Bram Stoker Award–winning novel, The Safety of Unknown Cities, was recently reprinted in German by Festa Verlag Publications and is currently being translated into Russian by Poltergeist Press. Taylor lives in the high desert outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Melanie Tem, British Fantasy and World Fantasy Award–winning author, passed away in 2015. The most important of her short stories are collected in Singularity and Other Stories. Tem’s other works include her last novel, The Yellow Wood, and a recent collection of her plays and poetry, Fry Day Plays & Poems.
Jack Womack, born in Lexington, Kentucky, lives in New York City with his family. He has published seven novels and one nonfiction catalog, and is best known for the novel, Random Acts of Senseless Violence.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for four decades. She currently acquires short stories and novellas for Tor.com and Nightfire. She has edited numerous anthologies for adults, young adults, and children, including The Best Horror of the Year annual series, When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, Body Shocks, and Screams from the Dark: 19 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous. She’s won multiple Locus, Hugo, Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, and World Fantasy Awards. Datlow was recipient of the 2007 Karl Edward Wagner Award, given at the British Fantasy Convention for outstanding contribution to the genre, and was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Horror Writers Association in acknowledgment of superior achievement over an entire career. She was honored with the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award at the 2014 World Fantasy Convention.
She runs the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in the East Village, New York City, with Matthew Kressel.
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Copyright © 1994 by Ellen Datlow
“The Lady of Situations” © 1994 by Stephen Dedman
“Hungry Skin” © 1994 by Lucy Taylor
“Becky Lives” © 1994 by Harry Crews
“Ménage à Trois” © 1994 by Richard Christian Matheson
“Lover Doll” © 1994 by Wayne Allen Sallee
“The Swing” © 1994 by Nicholas Royle
“Sahib” © 1994 by J. Calvin Pierce
“The Careful Geometry of Love” © 1994 by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
“Yaguara” © 1994 by Nicola Griffith
“Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring” © 1994 by M. John Harrison
“The Pain Barrier” © 1994 by Joel Lane
Sinfonia Expansiva” © 1994 by Barry N. Malzberg
“Fever Blisters” © 1994 by Joyce Carol Oates
“The Rock” © 1994 by Melanie Tem
“And Salome Danced” © 1994 by Kelley Eskridge
“The Disquieting Muse” © 1994 by Kathe Koja
“Holes” © 1994 by Sarah Clemens
“That Old School Tie” © 1994 by Jack Womack
“Black Nightgown” © 1994 by K. W. Jeter
“Ice Palace” © 1994 by Douglas Clegg
“Serial Monogamist” © 1994 by Pat Cadigan
“The Last Time” © 1994 by Lucius Shepard
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