Shadows Out of Time

FREDERIC S. DURBIN has been writing for grownups and children since his first novel, Dragonfly, was published by Arkham House in 1999. His short work has appeared in Cricket, Cicada, Black Gate, Weird Tales, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Challenge: Discovery! and Mountains of Madness Revealed. He is the author of the middle-grade fantasy The Star Shard and the horror novella The Bone Man. His novel A Green and Ancient Light was named a Best Fantasy of the year by Publishers Weekly and a Reading List Honor Book by the American Library Association. Since 2019, he has co-edited the annual speculative fiction anthology series Cold Hard Type for Loose Dog Press. He lives in western Pennsylvania with his wife and an alarming number of manual typewriters.

JOHN R. FULTZ is a California writer originally from Kentucky. His novels include Seven Princes (2012), Seven Kings (2013), and Seven Sorcerers 2013), as well as The Testament of Tall Eagle (2015) and Son of Tall Eagle (2017). His short stories have appeared in The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Weird Tales, Black Gate, Weirdbook, That Is Not Dead, Shattered Shields, Lightspeed, Way of the Wizard, Cthulhu’s Reign, and plenty of other strange and wonderful places. His latest story collection is Worlds Beyond Worlds (2021).

ROBERT GUFFEY is a lecturer in the Department of English at California State University — Long Beach. His most recent books are Widow of the Amputation and Other Weird Crimes Eraserhead Press, 2021) and Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Crossroad Press, 2021). 2017 marked the publication of Until the Last Dog Dies (Night Shade/Skyhorse), a darkly satirical novel about a young stand-up comedian who must adapt as best he can to an apocalyptic virus that destroys only the humor centers of the brain. Guffey’s previous books include the journalistic memoir Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security (OR Books, 2015), which Flavorwire called, “By many miles, the weirdest and funniest book of [the year].” A graduate of the famed Clarion Writers Workshop in Seattle, he has also written a collection of three novellas entitled Spies & Saucers (PS Publishing, 2014). His first book of nonfiction, Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form, was published in 2012. He’s written stories and articles for numerous magazines and anthologies, among them The Believer, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Black Dandy, The Evergreen Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mailer Review, Phantom Drift, Postscripts, Rosebud, Salon, The Third Alternative, and TOR.

GEOFFREY HART works as a scientific editor, specializing in helping scientists who have English as their second language publish their research. He also writes fiction in his spare time, and has sold 58 stories thus far. He mentions that he recently sold a story to Analog.

NICHOLAS KAUFMANN is the bestselling author of seven novels and two short story collections. His work has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Thriller Award, and the Dragon Award. His short fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Black Static, Nightmare Magazine, Interzone, and others. In addition to his own original work, he has written for such properties as Zombies vs. Robots, The Rocketeer, and Warhammer. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two ridiculous cats.

TIM LEES is the author of the “Field Ops” books for HarperVoyager (The God Hunter, Devil in the Wires and Steal the Lightning and the much-praised Frankenstein’s Prescription Brooligan Press/Tartarus), described by Publisher’s Weekly as “a philosophically insightful and literary tale of terror”. Originally from Manchester, England, he now lives in Chicago. When not writing he has held a variety of odd jobs, including film extra, conference organizer, teacher, lizard-bottler for a museum, and worker on the rehab wards of a psychiatric hospital.