Shadows Out of Time

About the Editor

DARRELL SCHWEITZER has been publishing fantasy and horror fiction since the early 1970s. PS Publishing published a two-volume retrospective of his best short fiction in 2020, The Mysteries of the Faceless King and The Last Heretic. His Shirley Jackson Award nominated novella, Living with the Dead, appeared from PS in 2008. His previous anthologies for PS include That Is Not Dead, Tales from the Miskatonic University Library (with John Ashmead), and The Mountains of Madness Revealed. He has also edited anthologies for other publishers, including The Secret History of Vampires, Cthulhu’s Reign, and Full Moon City (with Martin Greenberg). He was co-editor of Weird Tales between 1988 and 2007, and before that he worked with George Scithers on Amazing Stories and Asimov’s SF. He has published four novels, The White Isle, The Shattered Goddess, The Mask of the Sorcerer, and The Dragon House. His numerous short fiction collections include Tom O’Bedlam’s Night Out, Transients (World Fantasy Award finalist, 1994), Refugees from an Imaginary Country, Nightscapes, Necromancies and Netherworlds (with Jason Van Hollander; World Fantasy Award finalist, 2000), The Emperor of the Ancient Word, and others. Many of his explicitly Lovecraftian fictions are collected in Awaiting Strange Gods, published by Fedogan & Bremer in 2015. He is editing a series of Weird Tales anthologies for Centipede Press. The first of these, The Best of Weird Tales: The 1920s should appear in 2022. He won the World Fantasy Award in 1992 as co-editor of Weird Tales.