John Kessel holds a B.A. in Physics and English and a Ph.D. in American Literature. He helped found and served as the first director of the MFA program in creative writing at North Carolina State…
Linda Addison is an award-winning poet and author writing in the genres of Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction. In 2001, she became the first African-American writer to win a Bram Stoker Award for her…
Sarah Kendzior is a writer, journalist, and researcher who has studied authoritarian states in Central Asia. She is a former columnist for Al Jazeera English and is credited with being one of the…
Paolo Bacigalupi is the New York Times best-selling and multiple award-winning author of The Windup Girl, Ship Breaker, The Drowned Cities, Zombie Baseball Beatdown and The Water Knife (which really…
Carter Wilson is an award-winning, best-selling author who specializes in domestic thrillers filled with tension, paranoia, and psychological terror. He recently agreed to be interviewed by Daryl…
R.E. Stearns wrote her first story on an Apple IIe computer and still kind of misses green text on a black screen. She went on to annoy all of her teachers by reading books while they lectured…
Samantha Silva is an author and screenwriter based in Idaho. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, where she studied in Bologna, Italy and Washington…
Originally from Coffeyville, Kansas, Scott Thomas attended the University of Kansas where he earned degrees in English and Film. He is the Co-Creator and Executive Producer of Disney Channel’s Best…
Andrew Mayne, is the star of A&E’s Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne. He is also a magician, novelist and the host of the Weird Things podcast. He started his first world tour as an illusionist when he was a…
Daniel H. Wilson is a New York Times bestselling author of 10 novels, including Robopocalypse. He holds a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife…
Пятнадцать лет назад Джереми и Ральф пропали во время школьной экскурсии в государственный лес Ред-Кроу в Западной Вирджинии. В один момент они были там, а в другой — исчезли. Лес неоднократно обыскивали, но никаких следов мальчиков так и не нашли. И...
Артур Эдвардс всю свою жизнь прожил в маленьком городке Нортбридж на севере Англии. Он вырос там. И именно там он познакомился и женился на своей жене Мадлен. В Нортбридже они с Мадлен вырастили двоих детей, Элизабет и Патрика. Как и в большинстве маленьких городков, независимо от...
Ужасы. Кто-то их любит! Кто-то нет! И, как правило, у людей складываются сильные чувства по отношению к этому жанру, они делятся на две категории. По иронии судьбы, есть люди, которые «боятся» ужасов как жанра. Да, они боятся этого жанра...
Когда читатели оставили Джоуи Джессап в конце книги Марджори Маккоун «Последний кадр», она узнала личность убийцы, расправившегося с помощницей режиссера Кортни Лайл на съемочной площадке высокобюджетного супергеройского фильма. Она пережила покушение на свою жизнь, когда убийца...
Эвин — профессиональная убийца. Здесь следует сделать акцент на слове «профессиональная». Она — ожившая убийца, лишённая памяти и служащая Матроне Ассасинов, которая дала ей второй шанс на «жизнь». Она эффективна, осторожна и готова расправиться (термин...
Three sisters gather at what they have decided is a wishing well near their home in Paris. The year is 1885. There are so many terrible things happening in the world that they decide they each will make a wish and sacrifice something important to them by casting it into...
There are two residences on Eastbourne Road in Stoke Newington on the outskirts of London. Winston has lived in #79, with his boyfriend Lewis, for several years. Bernice, recently divorced, has just purchased #77 as a new home for herself and her young son, Sebastian. The two houses share a...
Annie’s Great Aunt Frances has always been a presence in Annie’s life. A rather nebulous, undefined presence, but a presence none the less. Great Aunt Frances owns the house in Chelsea where Annie has grown up with her mother. Communication from Great Aunt Frances has always been sporadic at best...
Fifteen-year-old Sana has just moved to Durban, a city on the eastern coast of South Africa, with her father. Her mother, a victim of cancer, died a few years earlier and her father believes the move to the once grand, now dilapidated, estate that is an odd type of apartment...
Sophie Wan opens her debut novel with this bit of information:“Sheng nu – ‘leftover women’ – unmarried women over the age of twenty-seven. Later adopted by the internet community to refer to often well-educated women who had passed the appropriate age for marriage.”Wan then goes on to introduce readers to...
