Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury

CONTRIBUTORS

Neil Gaiman was the first author to win the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal for the same book with The Graveyard Book (2008). He wrote The Sandman, now available in collected graphic novel form, and such books as the Hugo- and Nebula-winning American Gods. He dedicated his last short-story collection, Fragile Things, to Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison. He has three children and two dogs, and his wife has a ukulele.

Margaret Atwood is a poet and novelist (The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood); her latest book is In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (Doubleday, 2011).

Jay Bonansinga’s debut novel, The Black Mariah, was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award, and film rights sold to George Romero. The Chicago Tribune calls Bonansinga “one of the most imaginative writers of thrillers.” His novels include Perfect Victim, Shattered, Twisted, and Frozen. His nonfiction Sinking of the Eastland was a Chicago Reader “Critics Choice Book” as well as the recipient of a Superior Achievement Award from the Illinois State Historical Society. The New York Times bestseller The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor (St. Martin’s), coauthored with The Walking Dead TV and comics creator Robert Kirkman, is his latest novel.

Sam Weller is the authorized biographer of Ray Bradbury and the author of the bestselling Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury and Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews. He is a two-time Bram Stoker Award finalist. Weller has written for the Paris Review, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and many other publications. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies, journals, and magazines. Follow him on Twitter @Sam__Weller.

David Morrell is the award-winning author of First Blood, the novel in which Rambo was created. His many New York Times bestsellers include the classic espionage novel The Brotherhood of the Rose, which was adapted into an NBC miniseries that premiered after a Super Bowl. An Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity nominee, Morrell is a three-time recipient of the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award and was named a ThrillerMaster by International Thriller Writers. His fiction has been translated into twenty-six languages.

Thomas F. Monteleone has published more than ninety short stories and twenty novels, including the New York Times bestseller Blood of the Lamb, which was also a New York Times Notable Book, and the bestselling Complete Idiot’s Guide to Novel Writing. Monteleone’s TV credits include Tales from the Darkside and PBS Television’s American Playhouse. He is the founder of the twice-annual Borderlands Press Writers Boot Camp for novelists and short-story writers.

Lee Martin is the author of the novels The Bright Forever, a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in fiction; Break the Skin, River of Heaven, and Quakertown. He has also published two memoirs, From Our House and Turning Bones, and a short-story collection, The Least You Need to Know. He teaches in the MFA program at Ohio State University.

Joe Hill is the author of two New York Times bestselling novels, Heart-Shaped Box and Horns, and a prizewinning collection of stories, 20th Century Ghosts. He also scripts the Eisner Award–winning ongoing comic Locke & Key. Once upon a time, he earned a fellowship in Ray Bradbury’s name. You can follow him on Twitter @joe_hill.

Dan Chaon is the author of Fitting Ends and Among the Missing, a finalist for the National Book Award, which was also listed as one of the Ten Best Books of the year by the American Library Association, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and Entertainment Weekly, and cited as a New York Times Notable Book. Chaon’s fiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and won both Pushcart and O. Henry awards. His short story “The Bees” appears in All American Horror of the 21st Century: The First Decade. Stay Awake (Ballantine) is his newest collection. Chaon teaches at Oberlin College.

John McNally is the author of three novels: After the Workshop, The Book of Ralph, and America’s Report Card, and two story collections, Troublemakers (winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and the Nebraska Book Award) and Ghosts of Chicago. He is also the author of two nonfiction books: The Creative Writer’s Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist and the forthcoming Vivid and Continuous: Essays and Exercises for Fiction Writing, both published by the University of Iowa Press. McNally is an associate professor of English at Wake Forest University.

Joe Meno is a fiction writer and playwright who lives in Chicago. A winner of the Nelson Algren Literary Award and a Pushcart Prize and a finalist for the Story Prize, he is the bestselling author of five novels and two short-story collections including The Great Perhaps, The Boy Detective Fails, and Hairstyles of the Damned. He is a professor in the fiction writing department at Columbia College Chicago. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times and Chicago magazine.

Robert McCammon is the award-winning author of seventeen novels, including Boy’s Life, Swan Song, and Mister Slaughter. He has been a lifelong fan of Ray Bradbury’s work.

Ramsey Campbell is “Britain’s most respected living horror writer” (Oxford Companion to English Literature). His novels, including The Doll Who Ate His Mother, Incarnate, The Hungry Moon, and The House on Nazareth Hill, and short stories have earned him more awards—World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, and the International Horror Society’s Living Legend and Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award—than any other writer in the genre.

Mort Castle published his first novel in 1967; since then, there have been more than five hundred publications of short stories, articles, comic books, poems, et cetera, and fifteen books with his name as writer or editor, including the “bible for aspiring horror writers” On Writing Horror (Writer’s Digest Books) and The Strangers, a novel that, in translation, made the Polish edition of Newsweek’s Top Ten Horror-Thriller Books of 2008 list. He is a seven-time Bram Stoker Award nominee and a two-time winner of the Black Quill Award (for editing). Castle and Jane, his wife of forty-one years, live in Crete, Illinois, a town noted for its bubbling fountain and the bandstand in the park. Castle is ranked as the best five-string banjo player in his height, weight, and age group.

Alice Hoffman is the author of many bestselling novels including Practical Magic, The Red Garden, and The Dovekeepers. She is currently a visiting scholar at Brandeis University.

John Maclay is the author of more than one hundred published horror and fantasy short stories, many of which have appeared in mass-market anthologies alongside stories by Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Clive Barker, and Stephen King. His most recent collections are A Little Red Book of Vampire Stories, Dreadful Delineations, and Divagations. At Maclay & Associates, 1984–1995, he was publisher of the Masques anthology series and other books in the fantasy and horror field.

Jacquelyn Mitchard, longtime journalist and essayist, is the author of twenty-one books of fiction, including five New York Times bestsellers. Nearly five million copies of her books are in print, in twenty-six languages. Her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the inaugural selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club. She served on the 2004 fiction jury for the National Book Award and is the first Faculty Fellow at Southern New Hampshire University. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and nine children.

Gary A. Braunbeck’s work has garnered six Bram Stoker Awards, an International Horror Guild Award, and a World Fantasy Award nomination. And, he says, that is the “end of anything remotely interesting about him.”

Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of Once Upon a River, Q Road, Women & Other Animals, and American Salvage, and a finalist for both the 2009 National Book Award finalist and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband and her donkeys, Jack and Don Quixote.

Audrey Niffenegger is the author of The Time Traveler’s Wife, New York Times bestseller, British Book Award winner, and basis for a film, as well as Her Fearful Symmetry, The Night Bookmobile, and numerous hand-printed and hand-bound books. She is at work on a new novel, The Chinchilla Girl in Exile.

Charles Yu was named one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” for his debut short-story collection, Third Class Superhero. His first novel, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, was a New York Times Notable Book and named a Best Book of the Year by Time magazine. Yu’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Harvard Review, the Gettysburg Review, the Mid-American Review, the New York Times, Playboy, and the Oxford American. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Michelle, and their two children.

Julia Keller, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the author of the young adult novel Back Home and the nonfiction book Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It. She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has taught at Princeton University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Chicago. Her mystery novel, A Killing in the Hills, will be published by St. Martin’s in 2012.

Dave Eggers is the author of many novels and works of nonfiction, including Zeitoun and What Is the What. He is the editor of McSweeney’s.

Bayo Ojikutu is an award-winning novelist—47th Street Black and Free Burning—and Pushcart Prize–nominated short-story writer. His work has appeared in various magazines and journals. Ojikutu, his wife, and his son currently reside in the Chicago metropolitan area.

Kelly Link is the author of three short-story collections. With her husband, Gavin J. Grant, she runs Small Beer Press and edits the occasional anthology as well as the zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. They live with their daughter, Ursula, in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Harlan Ellison® has been called “one of the great living American short story writers” by the Washington Post; the Los Angeles Times said, “It’s long past time for Harlan Ellison to be awarded the title: ‘20th Century Lewis Carroll.’” In a career spanning more than forty years, he has written seventy-five books and more than seventeen hundred stories, essays, articles, and newspaper columns, two dozen teleplays, and a dozen motion pictures. He has won more awards than “any other living fantasist,” including the Hugo eight times, the Nebula three times, the Bram Stoker six times (including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996), the Edgar Award of the Mystery Writers of America twice, the Georges Méliès fantasy film award twice, two Audie Awards (for the best in audio recordings), and the Silver Pen for Journalism, the latter awarded by PEN, the international writers’ union. A documentary on Ellison, Dreams with Sharp Teeth, was released on DVD in 2009.