Shadows Out of Time

Might I, like the moth which is trapped between two points in time in that brief interval in which it is alive, turn back from my own terminal point, before the curtains are drawn back and my eyes are blasted?

I don’t think so.

But what if I do not worship? What if instead I hurl defiance and curses into the face of Idiot Chaos. What then?

It’s probably not that simple.

About the Authors

JAMES CHAMBERS received the Bram Stoker Award® for the graphic novel, Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe and is a four-time Bram Stoker Award nominee. He is the author of the short story collections On the Night Border and On the Hierophant Road, which received a starred review from Booklist, which called it “…satisfyingly unsettling”; and the novella collection, The Engines of Sacrifice, described as “…chillingly evocative…” in a Publisher’s Weekly starred review. He has written the novellas, Three Chords of Chaos, Kolchak and the Night Stalkers: The Faceless God, and many others. He edited and co-edited the Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthologies, Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign and A New York State of Fright, as well as Even in the Grave, an anthology of ghost stories.

ADRIAN COLE is a native of and lives in North Devon, England. He writes about himself: “My first published work was a ghost story for IPC magazines (UK, 1972) followed by a trilogy of sword & planet novels, The Dream Lords (Zebra, US, 1970s). Subsequently I have had more than two dozen novels and numerous short stories published, many translated into foreign editions.

“I have written science fiction, heroic fantasy, sword & sorcery, horror, pulp fiction, and Mythos as well as two young adult novels, Moorstones and The Sleep of Giants (Spindlewood, UK, 1980s).

“My best known works are the Omarian Saga and Star Requiem fantasy quartets, both reprinted recently as e-Books (Gollancz SF Gateway) and as audio books (Audible).

“My collection Nick Nightmare Investigates (Alchemy UK), the first arc of stories about my hard-boiled occult private eye, was the recipient of the 2015 British Fantasy Award for best collection. This is to be reprinted by Pulp Hero Press, together with two further volumes, Nightmare Cocktails and Nightmare Creatures. I also have another collection, Elak, King of Atlantis, due from Skelos Press this year.

“I have previously appeared in Year’s Best Fantasy and Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror anthologies.

“I contribute regularly to the revised Weirdbook Magazine (US) and have had several short horror stories in anthologies in both the US and the UK, including The Mammoth Book of Halloween, The Alchemy Book of Horror, Hinnom, and Occult Detective Quarterly Presents.”

BRYAN D. DIETRICH is the author of nine books of poems and co-editor of an anthology of superhero poetry. He has published work in Weird Tales, Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, and many other journals. He has been a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, the Yale Younger Poets Prize, and has won the Asimov’s Readers’ Choice Award, the Paris Review Prize, the Lord Ruthven Award, a Discovery/ The Nation Award, a Writers at Work Fellowship, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer. Bryan is Professor of English at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas where he lives with his wife and three hell beasts.