The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities

been published in a number of magazines and literary journals, including Oxford American, The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, Mississippi Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review.

Artists

Aeron Alfrey creates unique imagery inspired by strange fantasy worlds filled with monsters, magic, and death. His art has been published in numerous books and shown in galleries around the world.

Kristen Alvanson is an American artist based in Malaysia and Iran. She has participated in group/solo shows in New York, Tehran, London, Istanbul, Berlin, Belgium, and Vilnius, including a solo exhibition of her work at Azad Gallery (Tehran) and at the International Roaming Biennial of Tehran.

Greg Broadmore is a New Zealand illustrator, writer, and conceptual designer for Weta Workshop and has designed for the motion pictures District 9, King Kong, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Black Sheep, among many, many others.

John Coulthart is a world-recognized illustrator, graphic designer, and comic artist, who lives in Manchester, England. He has designed and provided art for several classic books, including The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases. Find more of his work at johncoulthart.com.

Scott Eagle is a professor of painting and drawing at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. His paintings have graced the covers of many books, including City of Saints and Madmen and Secret Life by Jeff VanderMeer. His illustrations have appeared in a number of national magazines.

Vladimir Gvozdariki, a Russian artist who also works under the moniker Gvozd (which means “Iron”), is known for his whimsical and mechanical illustrations and sculptures. His Web museum can be found at gvozdariki.ru.

Yishan Li is a professional manga artist living in Edinburgh, Scotland. She has been published internationally, including in China, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. Her latest book is The Complete Shojo Art Kit.

Mike Mignola is an artist known for graphic novels such as Hellboy and The Amazing Screw-on Head. He was also the production designer for the Disney feature film Atlantis: The Lost Empire.

Jonathan Nix is an award-winning director, animator, artist, and musician. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

Eric Orchard is an award-winning illustrator and cartoonist living in Canada. He most recently illustrated the children’s book The Terrible, Horrible, Smelly Pirate. His work has been recognized in the Spectrum Annual of Fantastic Art and the Society of Illustrators annual exhibit.

James A. Owen is an American comic book artist, publisher, and writer. He is the author of the popular Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica series and the creator of the critically acclaimed Starchild graphic novel series. His most recent book is The Dragon’s Apprentice.

Ron Pippin’s artwork has been shown around the world in solo shows as well as group exhibitions. His art has also been seen in various movies and TV shows such as Spider- Man.

J. K. Potter is an iconic photographer known mostly for his work in the horror, science fiction, and fantasy world, as well as his album/CD covers. He has produced art for many book covers, including the recent Subterranean Press limited editions of Ebb Tide by James Blaylock and Last Call by Tim Powers.

Eric Schaller is an artist, writer, and scientist. His stories have appeared in Postscripts, New Genre, and Nemonymous, and his artwork in The White Buffalo Gazette, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and Jeff VanderMeer’s mosaic novel City of Saints and Madmen.

Ivica Stevanovic is a Serbian artist. He has won several prizes in the fields of design, illustrations, cartoons, and comics. His specialty is graphic novels and art book projects. His latest book is Katil (Bloodthirsty Man) and he also recently contributed to the anthology Steampunk Reloaded.

Jan Svankmajer is a famous Czech surrealist artist and filmmaker. His first feature film in 1987 was Alice, based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. His most recent film is the Czech comedy Surviving Life (2010), which he claims will be his last.

Sam Van Olffen is a French artist best known for his surreal depictions of steampunk and/or dieselpunk images. His work has been featured in many books as well as gallery exhibits around the world.

Myrtle von Damitz III is a painter living in New Orleans who sees her work as a form of storytelling. She has had numerous solo exhibits as well as group gallery showings around the country. She is the founder and curator of Babylon Lexicon, an annual exhibition of artists’ books and local independent presses.

Jake von Slatt is a steampunk contraptor and proprietor of the popular Web site The Steampunk Workshop (steampunkworkshop.com); he lives in Boston. He and his projects have been featured in Boing Boing, WIRED, Nature, Newsweek, and the New York Times.

Catalog Contributors

Hugh Alter is currently working on novels that you will recognize as award-winning best- sellers from the future. He is also working on retrieving coins from inside his couch. Charlie Jane Anders blogs at io9.com and organizes the Writers with Drinks reading series. Her work has also appeared at Tor.com and the McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes. Julie Andrews is a 2007 graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop and is a member of both Broad Universe and The Outer Alliance. Christopher Begley is thirty and lives in Worcester, Massachusetts. This is his first published work. He wouldn’t call his writing Moore-ish or Gaiman-esque but will not stop others from doing so. Jayme Lynn Blaschke writes science fiction, fantasy, and related nonfiction. He has authored a book of genre-themed interviews, titled Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction & Fantasy Speak. Nickolas Brienza is a Seattle resident; all further CV may be confidently extrapolated via the usual statistical methods. Tucker Cummings has been writing strange stories since the day she developed sufficient hand-eye coordination to hold a crayon. Previous microfiction efforts garnered accolades during competitions held by HiLoBrow.com and MassTwitFic. Rikki Ducornet is one of her generation’s best surrealists, with books including The Word Desire and The Fountains of Neptune. She is also the Rikki in the Steely Dan song “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.” Kaolin Imago Fire is a conglomeration of ideas, side projects, and experiments. He has had short fiction published in Strange Horizons, Crossed Genres, Escape Velocity, and M-Brane SF, among others. Jess Gulbranson, a hyperminimal neoplastic bricoleur from Portland, Oregon, is an author, musician, critic, artist, and family man. He has swell hair. Jennifer Harwood-Smith is a Ph.D. student at Trinity College Dublin. She won the 2006 James White Award and has been published in Interzone magazine. Willow Holser is a twenty-six-year-old daydreamer with delusions of adulthood, gainful employment, and grammatical correctness. However, she does have what has been called a “Quite Suitable Hat.” Rhys Hughes is a writer of absurdist fantasy; he lives in Wales. His most recent book is the novel Twisthorn Bellow, and he contributed to the first Lambshead anthology. Incognitum has long been part of a secret society dedicated