Lisa M. Bradley has thus far lived half her life in South Texas and half in Iowa, sequentially not concurrently (alas). Her poetry ranges from haiku to epic and has appeared in numerous venues, among them, Stone Telling, Mothering, Fantastique Unfettered, and Strange Horizons. Her work has been nominated for the Dwarf Stars award, the […]
Sofía Rhei is an author and literary translator. She has published two YA novels, Flores de sombra (Alfaguara) and its sequel Savia negra; five books of poetry: Alicia volátil (El Cangrejo Pistolero), Las flores del alcohol (La Bella Varsovia), Versiones (Ediciones del primor), Química (El Gaviero), and Las ciudades reversibles (Colegio de Arquitectos de Ciudad […]
Stefan Grabiński (1887 — 1936) was a Polish writer of horror fiction who considered himself an expert on demonology and magic. Some critics have called him the “Polish Poe” or the “Polish Lovecraft,” and suggested he believed in the supernatural forces in his stories. Known primarily as a novelist, he wrote many short stories, including those under the name […]
Tamsyn Muir is based in Wellington, New Zealand, where she divides her time between writing, teaching and dogs. A graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop 2010, her work has previously appeared in Fantasy Magazine and Weird Tales. She also has a story forthcoming in Nightmare magazine. The disturbing “The Magician’s Apprentice” was first published in Weird Tales #359. — The […]
Rhys Hughes is a Welsh writer of fantasy, speculative fiction, and magic realism who often uses comedy and absurdism to examine philosophical issues. He is known for his unique ideas, intricate plots, and entertaining wordplay. Hughes is immensely prolific, having written numerous short stories, ebooks, novellas, and novels. Recent publications of his include the collections The Brothel […]
Conrad Williams is the author of seven novels (Head Injuries, London Revenant, The Unblemished, One, Decay Inevitable, Blonde on a Stick and Loss of Separation), four novellas (Nearly People, Game, The Scalding Rooms and Rain) and a collection of short stories, Use Once Then Destroy. He has previous won the August Derleth Award for Best Novel, the […]
Matt Bell is the author of Cataclysm Baby, a novella, and How They Were Found, a collection of fiction, as well as three chapbooks, Wolf Parts, The Collectors, and How the Broken Lead the Blind. His fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Gulf Coast, Willow Springs, Unsaid, and American Short Fiction, and has been selected for […]
Marc Laidlaw (1960 – ) is an eclectic American writer of science fiction and horror whose long career has included a stint in the cyberpunk movement and significant contributions to the popular Half-Life video game series. Laidlaw first started publishing idiosyncratic, hard-to-define short fiction in the late 1970s, but is perhaps best known for writing Dad’s Nuke (1985) […]
Lisa Tuttle (1952 — ) is an American writer of fantastical fiction who lives in Scotland. An early member of the Turkey City Writer’s Workshop, she won the 1974 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. Her first novel came out in 1980 and was co-written with George R. R. Martin. Since then, […]
Recently, Stephen Graham Jones taught our The Weird compendium for a course on the weird at the University of Colorado. As part of that course, he had his students engage with the weird directly by rewriting/re-imagining stories from the anthology. Below you’ll find Adam Bishop’s extolment of “The Dissection” by Georg Heym, which we posted earlier this […]