Dracula in London

scriptwriter, who has been known to teach everything from Renaissance dance to water aerobics and Olympic- grade belching. Working with Tempest Productions as a writer, narrator, and production assistant for short documentary films, she fills the last three months of every year with song, as the musical director of the Omni Carolers. “Beast” is her first professional fiction publication.

Tanya Huff lives and writes in rural Ontario with her partner, four cats, and an unintentional chihuahua. After sixteen fantasies, she’s written her first space opera, Valor’s Choice (DAW April 2000), and is currently working on a sequel to Summon The Keeper called The Second Summoning. In her spare time she gardens and complains about the weather.

Award-winning author Nancy Kilpatrick has published fourteen novels, over 125 short stories, and has edited seven anthologies. Her latest works include the collections The Vampire Stories of Nancy Kilpatrick (Mosaic Press, August 2000) and Cold Contact (Dark Tales Publishing, June 2001); the anthology Graven Images coedited with Thomas Roche (Ace Books, October 2000); Blood-lover, the fourth novel in her popular vampire series “Power of the Blood” (Baskerville Books, October 2000). Currendy she is working on several pieces of short fiction, a new novel, and is about to begin editing another anthology.

Catt Kingsgrave-Ernstein lives in Denton, Texas, where, in the company of her husband, four cats, and a surly hedgehog, she has been writing and publishing fantasy, horror, and science fiction stories in small presses across the United States and Canada since 1989. Spliced into the cracks between performing in her Celtic band, Ravens, forays in community and street theater, and seven years of running a professional fantasy art studio, her writing career waited to fully blossom until 1996, and the release of Time of the Vampires. “Beast” is her first collaborative work in publication.

Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as “spoiling cats.” She lives northwest of Chicago with two of the above and her husband, author and packager Bill Fawcett. She has published twenty-five books, including five contemporary fantasies; four SF novels; four novels in collaboration with Anne McCaffrey, including The Ship Who Won; a humorous anthology about mothers, Don’t Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear!; and over sixty short stories. Her latest books are License Invoked (Baen Books), co-written with Robert Asprin; and Advanced Mythology (Meisha Merlin Publishing), fourth in the Mythology 101 series.

Judith Proctor says, “My interest in writing grew out of an old British science fiction show— Blake’s 7. My interest in theatre grew from my appreciation of the lead actor—Gareth Thomas. (My knowledge of Shakespeare has now progressed to the extent where my thirteen-year-old son can impress his English teacher by explaining bits of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that she didn’t know about.) Writing this story gave me a good excuse to read the Ellen Terry/George Bernard Shaw correspondence, which I’d been meaning to do for years. I also love folk music and play the concertina.” She is also happily married with two children and lives in Dorset, England.

Fred Saberhagen is best known for his Berserker® series, about self-replicating robots that seek to end all organic life. The latest novel in the series is Shiva in Steel. He has also written in such diverse worlds as high fantasy, chronicled in his Swords series, and Gothic horror, in his novels about Dracula. His short fiction has been published in classic science fiction magazines, such as If, Galaxy, and Amazing, as well as Omni, Analog, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. He lives with his wife in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Not long ago Brad Sinor ran into someone who he hadn’t seen for several years. The friend asked if Brad was still writing. Brad’s wife, Sue, said, “There’s still a pulse. So he’s still writing.” His short fiction has appeared in the Merovingen Nights series, Time of the Vampires, On Crusade: More Tales of the Knights Templar,

Lord of the Fantastic, Horrors: 365 Scary Stories, Merlin, and Such a Pretty Face.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is the author of more than sixty books, among which are the Saint Germain cycle of vampire novels.

Born in Detroit, raised in Montreal, and educated there and in London, Bill Zaget is also an actor (as Zag Dorison), playwright, director, and performance poet. “Renfield or, Dining at the Bughouse” is adapted from his one-man show of the same title, and is his first foray into short fiction. He presently resides in Toronto.