Shadows Out of Time

GORDON LINZNER is founder and former editor of Space and Time Magazine, and author of three published novels and scores of short stories in F&SF, Twilight Zone, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, and numerous other magazines and anthologies. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and a lifetime member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.

WILL MURRAY is the author of more than seventy-five books and novels, including The Wild Adventures series, which stars Doc Savage, King Kong, Tarzan of the Apes, John Carter of Mars, Sherlock Holmes, The Shadow, The Spider and other classic characters. The Wild Adventures of Cthulhu collects his Cthulhu Mythos stories. For Marvel Comics, he created The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. A contributor to numerous Lovecraftian journals and anthologies, Murray was one of the principal founders of the Friends of H. P. Lovecraft, which placed the Lovecraft memorial plaque on the grounds of the John Hay Library on the occasion of Lovecraft’s centennial 1990.

ROBERT M. PRICE describes himself as “Freethinker, Author, Teacher, Speaker, Debater, Editor, Anthologist, Columnist, Podcaster and Heretic,” and indeed excels in all those fields. He is the editor of the long-running Crypt of Cthulhu magazine, a Hierophant of the Horde who has memorably preached at Cthulhu prayer breakfasts (some of his best such effusions have been collected in The Sermon on the Mound and Others (2011). His more serious works include a great deal of Lovecraft scholarship, plus the “Cycle” series of anthologies for Chaosium (The Innsmouth Cycle, etc.) and others including Acolytes of Cthulhu, Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos, The New Lovecraft Circle, Worlds of Cthulhu, etc. Much of his own Mythos fiction is collected in Blasphemies and Revelations.

ANN K. SCHWADER lives and writes in Colorado. Her latest collection of weird verse is Unquiet Stars (Weird House Press 2021). She is a two-time Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Poetry Collection, and a two-time Rhysling Award winner. Her poems have recently appeared in Spectral Realms, Star*Line, Dreams & Nightmares, Abyss & Apex, and elsewhere. She is an Active member of SFWA and HWA, and was the Poet Laureate for Necronomicon Providence 2015.

KEITH TAYLOR was born in Tasmania and grew up in picturesque Hobart. He reports that he was always a voracious reader and started writing aged nine. He became a Robert E. Howard fan early. His professional start came with the publication of his “Felimid the Bard” stories in Fantastic Stories, in the 1970s. Collaborations with Andrew J. Offutt, featuring Robert E. Howard’s character Cormac mac Art, followed. So did five novels about Felimid the Bard. Other series characters include Nasach, an Irish fisherman’s son and tough escaped slave, and Kamose, an archpriest and sorcerer of ancient Egypt.

Several stories appeared in British editor Mike Ashley’s anthologies such as The Camelot Chronicles and Shakespearean Whodunnits. Illness about fourteen years ago interrupted Keith’s writing, but since then he’s returned to work. A weird horror novel, Damned from Birth, is still looking for a publisher. Current projects are a sixth Felimid novel and a historical murder mystery. He lives in Melbourne with his wife Anna and son Francis.

HARRY TURTLEDOVE earned a Ph.D. in Byzantine history, but has spent his life telling lies for a living rather than in scholarship. He has published about a hundred books and two hundred pieces of short fiction. They include alternate history, other science fiction, fantasy (much of it historically based), and the occasional bit of historical fiction. His latest books are Through Darkest Europe and Alpha and Omega. He is married to fellow writer and Broadway scholar Laura Frankos. They have three daughters and two granddaughters, and share their house with too many books and three over-privileged cats.

DON WEBB teaches a course in horror writing for UCLA Extension. A popular occult writer as well as practitioner of the old Weird, Don’s latest two books are Building Strange Temples (from Ramble House) and the bestselling Energy Magic of the Vampyre (a how-to volume from Inner Traditions).

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