Stories: All-New Tales

Peter Straub’s novel Ghost Story is generally considered a high point of the modern horror novel. He has won the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, and International Horror Guild awards. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he now lives in New York City.

Lawrence Block is the highly acclaimed author of two series set in New York, featuring Private Eye Matthew Scudder and burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. In 1993 Block was tapped as a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.

Jeffrey Ford is known for his iconoclastic and literary dark fantasy novels. He is the winner of numerous awards for both his short stories and longer works. He lives in southern New Jersey with his wife and family.

Chuck Palahniuk is the author of Fight Club and numerous other novels, including the recent novel Pygmy. He is the recipient of many awards, among them the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Award. He lives in Washington State.

Diana Wynne Jones has written many fantasy novels for adults and children, among them the Chrestomanci series, which won the 1977 Guardian Award for children’s books. Her Howl’s Moving Castle was made into a notable film by Japanese director Havai Miazaki. She lives in Great Britain.

Pittsburgh native Stewart O’Nan is the author of numerous novels, such as Songs for the Missing and The Good Wife. His first short story collection, In the Walled City, was awarded the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 1993.

Multiple award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer Gene Wolf is perhaps best known for The Book of the New Sun, which comprises four volumes. He lives in Illinois.

Carolyn Parkhurst is the best-selling author of The Dogs of Babel (which was also a New York Times notable book in 2003) and Lost and Found. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Kat Howard currently lives in Minneapolis. She earned a law degree, then acquired a Ph.D. in English literature, both from the University of Minnesota. She is a 2008 graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop. “A Life in Fictions” is her first published story.

Jonathan Carroll, generally considered a magic realist, is the author of the novel The Land of the Laughs and many others. He has won the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy awards.

International number one best-selling author Jeffery Deaver’s books are sold in 150 countries and have been translated into 25 languages. He is the winner of numerous awards. His most recent books are The Bodies Left Behind and More Twisted: Collected Stories, Volume II.

Tim Powers, another magic realist, has won the World Fantasy Award two times, for his novels Last Call and Declare. Born in Buffalo, New York, he grew up in California, where he still lives.

Kurt Andersen is a novelist and host of the public radio program Studio 360. A cofounder of Spy magazine and former editor in chief of New York magazine, he has also written for Vanity Fair, Time, the New York Times, and the New Yorker.

Michael Moorcock has published science fiction and fantasy novels, as well as more overtly literary works. As editor of New Worlds magazine, he helped foster the new wave movement in science fiction, which helped bring it into the literary mainstream.

Elizabeth Hand grew up in New York and currently lives in Maine. She is the winner of the World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and International Horror Guild awards. Among her novels are Illyria and Generation Loss.

New England native Joe Hill’s first novel, Heart-Shaped Box, was a best-seller. He has won many awards. His first short-story collection, 20th Century Ghosts, was published in 2005, and his most recent novel is Horns.