In the Court of the Yellow King (42 page)

Tongues fell silent. Machines fell from the sky.

The play began.

Glynn Owen Barrass
lives in the North East of England and has been writing since late 2006. He has written over a hundred short stories, most of which have been published in the UK, USA, France, and Japan. He also edits anthologies for Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu fiction line, also writing material for their flagship roleplaying game. To date he has edited the collections
Eldritch Chrome
,
Steampunk
Cthulhu
, and
Atomic Age C
thulhu
, for Chaosium, and
World War Cth
ulhu
for Dark Regions Press.

Tim Curran
lives in Michigan and is the author of the novels
Skin Medicine
, Hive, Dead Sea
, and
Skull
Moon
. Upcoming projects include the novels
Resurrection, T
he Devil Next Door
, and
Hive 2
, as well as
The Corpse King
, a novella from Cemetery Dance, and
Four Rode Out
, a collection of four weird-western novellas by Curran, Tim Lebbon, Brian Keene, and Steve Vernon. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as
City Slab, Flesh & Blood, Book of Dark Wisdom
, and
Inhuman
, as well as anthologies such as
Flesh Feast, Shivers IV, High Seas
Cthulhu
, and
Vile Things
. Find him on the web at
www.corpseking.com

Cody Goodfellow
has written five novels––his latest is
Repo Shark
(Broken River Books)––and co-written three more with New York Times bestselling author John Skipp. He received the Wonderland Book Award twice for his short fiction collections,
Silen
t Weapons For Quiet
Wars
and
All-Monster Act
ion
(both Swallowdown Press). He wrote, co-produced and scored the short Lovecraftian hygiene film
Stay At Home Dad
, which can be viewed on YouTube. He is also a managing director of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival–Los Angeles and cofounder and editor at Perilous Press, a micropublisher of modern cosmic horror.

T.E. Grau
is an author of dark fiction whose work has been featured in over a dozen anthologies, including
The Children of Old Leech, Tales
of Jack the Ripper,
The Best of The Horr
or Society 2013, Dark Fusi
ons: Where Monsters L
urk, Suction Cup Drea
ms: An Octopus Anthol
ogy, Mark of the Beas
t, World War Cthulhu,
The Dark Rites of Ct
hulhu, Urban Cthulhu:
Nightmare Cities, Dea
d But Dreaming 2, The A
klonomicon
, and
Horror fo
r the Holidays
, among others; and such magazines, literary journals, and audio platforms as
LA We
ekly, The Fog Horn, Lo
re, Tales To Terrify,
The Teeming Brain, Es
chatology Journal
, and
Lo
vecraft eZine
. His limited edition novelette
The Mi
ssion
from Dynatox Ministries/Dunhams Manor Press was released in August of 2014, with his second Dynatox chapbook,
The Lost Aklo
Stories
, released in September of 2014. In the editorial realm, he currently serves as Fiction Editor of
Strange Aeon
s
magazine. T.E. Grau lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, and can be found in the ether at
The Cosmicomicon
(
cosmicomicon.blogspot.com
).

Laurel Halbany
talked an otherwise sensible college into granting her an undergraduate degree in Mythology, a course of study which was not especially marketable but has proven endlessly useful in her writing. Her work has been published in English and in translation in Japanese, and has appeared in publications including
Night Land
and
Five Million
Years to Earth
. She lives in the urban penumbra of San Francisco with her family.

CJ Henderson
created both the Jack Hagee hardboiled PI series and the Teddy London supernatural detective series. He also authored
The
Encyclopedia of Sci
ence Fiction Movies
, several score novels, hundreds of short stories, and thousands of non-fiction pieces. In the wonderful world of comics he wrote everything from Batma
n
and the Punisher to Archie and Cherry Poptart.

Gary McMahon
is the acclaimed author of seven novels and several short story collections. His award-nominated short fiction has been reprinted in “Year’s Best” anthologies. He lives in Yorkshire with his wife, son, and a skittish cat called Moshi, trains in shotokan karate, and likes running in the rain.

William Meikle
is a Scottish writer, now living in Canada, with twenty novels published in the genre press and over 300 short story credits in thirteen countries. He has recent novels and novellas published by the likes of Dark Regions Press, DarkFuse and Dark Renaissance. He lives in Newfoundland with whales, bald eagles and icebergs for company. When he’s not writing he plays guitar, drinks beer, and dreams of fortune and glory. He can be reached via his website at
http://www.williammeikle.com/

Christine Morgan
works the overnight shift in a psychiatric facility, which plays havoc with her sleep schedule but allows her a lot of writing time. A lifelong reader, she also reviews, beta-reads, occasionally edits and dabbles in self-publishing. Her other interests include gaming, history, superheroes, crafts, cheesy disaster movies and training to be a crazy cat lady. She can be found onli
ne at
www.christine-morgan.org

Edward Morris
is a 2011 nominee for the Pushcart Prize in Literature, also nominated for the 2009 Rhysling Award and the 2005 British Science Fiction Association Award. He has five collections’ worth of published short fiction, most recently in Perihelion SF,
World War Cthulhu
, and issues #11 and #12 of The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction. Edward lives in Portland, Oregon.

Robert M. Price
, a fan of H.P. Lovecraft since the Lancer paperback collections of 1967 appeared, began writing scholarly articles and humorous pieces on HPL and the Cthulhu Mythos in 1981. His celebrated semi-pro zine
Cryp
t of Cthulhu
began as a quarterly fanzine for the Esoteric Order of Dagon Amateur Press Association in 1981 and made it to 109 issues. In 1990 he began editing Mythos anthologies for Fedogan & Bremer and Chaosium, Inc. and still does! His fiction has been collected in
Blasphe
mies and Revelations
.

W. H. Pugmire
has been writing Lovecraftian weird fiction since the early 1970s, beginning with stories published in small press journals. His newest book is
The Revenant of Reb
ecca Pascal
(in collaboration with David Barker), and he will have stories in
That Is
Not Dead, Black Wings
IV
and
V
, and numerous other professional anthologies. WHP dreams in Seattle.

Stephen Mark Rainey
is author of the novels
Balak, The
Lebo Coven, Dark Shad
ows: Dreams of the Da
rk
(with Elizabeth Massie),
Blue Devil Island
, The Nightmare Frontier
, and
The Monarchs
; five short story collections; over 100 published works of short fiction; and several
Dar
k Shadows
audio productions, which feature members of the original ABC-TV series cast. For ten years, Mark edited the award-winning
Deathrealm
magazine and has edited several anthologies, including
Deathrealms, Son of Cthulhu
, and
Evermore
. He is an avid geocacher, which frequently takes him to fascinating places – many of them quite creepy. Mark lives in Greensboro, NC. Visit him on the web at
www.stephenmarkrainey.com

Pete Rawlik
has been collecting Lovecraftian fiction for forty years. In 2011 he decided to take his hobby of writing more seriously. He has since published more than twenty-five Lovecraftian stories and the novel
Reanimators
, a labor of love about life, death and the undead in Arkham during the early twentieth century. A sequel,
The
Weird Company
was released in the fall of 2014. He lives in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, with his wife and three children. Despite the rumors he is not now and never has been a resident of Kingsport.

Brian M. Sammons
is an author, editor, critic, and Managing Editor of Dark Regions Press’ Weird Fiction line. His stories have appeared in the books:
Horr
ors Beyond, Dead but
Dreaming 2
, and
Horror for
the Holidays
and in the magazines:
Dark D
iscoveries, Nightland
, and
Bare Bone
. To date he has edited 10 anthologies including
Undead & Unbound, Dark Rites of
Cthulhu, Eldritch Ch
rome, Edge of Sundown
, and
World War Cthulhu
. He has also written extensively for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game and has been a reviewer/critic for twenty years. You can follow Brian on Twitter @BrianMSammons

Daniele Serra
was born and lives in Italy. He works as an illustrator and comic artist, with work published in Europe, Australia, United States and Japan. He has worked for DC Comics, Image Comics, Cemetery Dance, Weird Tales magazine, PS Publishing and other publications. Winner of the British Fantasy Award.
http://www.multigrade.it

Lucy A. Snyder
is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels
Spellben
t, Shotgun Sorceress,
and
Switchblade Goddess
, and the collections
Orchid Carousals, Sp
arks and Shadows, Chi
meric Machines
, and
Insta
lling Linux on a Dea
d Badger
. Her latest two books were released earlier this year:
Shooting Yo
urself in the Head F
or Fun and Profit: A
Writer’s Survival Gu
ide
from Post Mortem Press, and her story collection
Soft Apocalypses
from Raw Dog Screaming Press. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as
Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine
, Jamais Vu, Pseudopod
, Strange Horizons, We
ird Tales, Dark Faith
, Chiaroscuro, GUD
, and
Bes
t Horror of the Year
, Vol. 5. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and occasional co-author Gary A. Braunbeck and is a mentor in Seton Hill University’s MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. You can learn more about her at
www.lucysnyder.com

Greg Stolze
has been paid to give fiction away in a complicated scheme of trust exchange and artistic patronage. Its fruits can be had for free at www.gregstolze.com/fiction_library . Or you can read one of his several horror novels (including
Ashes and Angel Wing
s
and
Mask of the Other
) or play one of his games like REIGN or A Dirty World. He is tall and thin, with grey hair and a melancholy demeanor.

Jeffrey Thomas
has written previously of the city of Punktown, in the short story collections
Punktown, Voices fr
om Punktown, Punktown
: Shades of Grey
(with his brother, Scott Thomas), and
Ghos
ts of Punktown
. His Punktown-based novels are
Deads
tock, Blue War, Monstr
ocity, Health Agent, E
verybody Scream!
, and
Red
Cells
. Thomas’s other collections include
Woship the Ni
ght, Thirteen Specime
ns, Nocturnal Emissio
ns, Unholy Dimensions
, and
Encounters with Enoch Coffin
(with W. H. Pugmire). His other novels include
Letters from Hades,
The Fall of Hades, Bo
neland, Beyond the Do
or, Subject 11
, and
A Nightm
are on Elm Street: Th
e Dream Dealers
. Thomas lives in Massachusetts.

Eric York
is an artist who lives in the gloomy forests of northern Arizona where he works as the night manager of an 87 year old haunted hotel. Over the years he’s played bass guitar in bands with names like The American Deathtrip, Shrunken Monkey Paw, Super Colossal Beast, Scar Strangled Banger and Evilsaurus Rex, as well as publishing his own zines, comix, coloring books, tarot cards and related effluvia. He has over 1000 pieces of his artwork up on his website:
tillinghast23.deviantart.com
.