The Cutting Room: Dark Reflections of the Silver Screen (46 page)

A senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, he also runs Nightjar Press, publishing original short stories as signed, limited-edition chapbooks, and works as an editor for Salt Publishing, where he has been responsible for Alison Moore’s Man Booker–shortlisted
The Lighthouse
and Alice Thompson’s
Burnt Island
, among other titles.

Robert Shearman
has written four short-story collections, which collectively have won the World Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Edge Hill Readers Prize, and two British Fantasy Awards. The most recent,
Remember Why You Fear Me
, was published by ChiZine. But he is probably best known for his work on the television revival of
Doctor Who
, bringing back the Daleks in an episode that was a finalist for a Hugo Award. He has also written extensively for radio and theater. He lives in London.

Lucy A. Snyder
is the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of the novels
Spellbent
,
Shotgun Sorceress
, and
Switchblade Goddess
and the collections
Sparks and Shadows
,
Chimeric Machines
, and
Installing Linux on a Dead Badger
. Her writing has appeared in
Strange Horizons
,
Weird Tales
,
Hell-bound Hearts
,
Dark Faith
,
Chiaroscuro
,
GUD
, and
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet
.

She currently lives in Worthington, Ohio, with her husband and occasional co-author, Gary A. Braunbeck. You can learn more about her at www.lucysnyder.com.

Peter Straub
is the author of eighteen novels, including
Ghost Story
;
Koko
;
Mr. X
; two collaborations with Stephen King,
The Talisman
and
Black House
; and his most recent,
A Dark Matter
. He has also written two volumes of poetry and two collections of short fiction. He edited
Conjunctions
39:
The New Wave Fabulists
, Library of America’s
H. P. Lovecraft: Tales
and
American Fantastic Tales,
and
Poe’s Children
. He has won the British Fantasy Award, nine Bram Stoker Awards, two International Horror Guild Awards, and three World Fantasy Awards. In 1998, he was named Grand Master at the World Horror Convention. He has also won WFC’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award. The University of Wisconsin and Columbia University gave him Distinguished Alumnus Awards.

Genevieve Valentine
’s first novel,
Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
, won the 2012 Crawford Award for first fantasy novel. Her second,
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
, was recently published by Atria. Her short fiction has been published in
Clarkesworld
,
Strange Horizons
,
Fantasy
, and
Tor.com
and in the anthologies
Federations
,
After
,
Running with the Pack
,
Teeth
,
Willful Impropriety
,
Nightmare Carnival
, and others.

Her nonfiction has appeared at
io9.com
,
NPR.org
,
Lightspeed
, and
Weird Tales
, among other venues, and she is the co-author of
Geek Wisdom
, a book of pop-culture philosophy from Quirk. Her appetite for bad movies is insatiable, a tragedy she tracks on her blog, genevievevalentine.com.

Howard Waldrop
, who was born in Mississippi and now lives in Austin, Texas, is one of the most iconoclastic writers working today. His highly original books include the novels
Them Bones
and
A Dozen Tough Jobs
and the collections
Howard Who?
,
All about Strange Monsters of the Recent Past
,
Night of the Cooters
, and
Going Home Again
. He won the Nebula and World Fantasy awards for his novelette “The Ugly Chickens.”

Waldrop continues to work on the novels
The Moon World
and
I, John Mandeville
.

British author
Ian Watson
published his first story in
New Worlds
in 1969 and his first, award-winning novel,
The Embedding
, in 1973. His many novels of science fiction, fantasy, and horror include
The Martian Inca
,
Miracle Visitors
,
The Fire Worm
,
The Flies of Memory
, and
Mockymen
. Among his twelve story collections are
The Very Slow Time Machine
and
The Great Escape
. He also wrote the first four novels to be set in the Warhammer forty thousand universe. His most recent major novel was the historical medical thriller
Waters of Destiny
, a collaboration with Andy West.

Watson has twice won the British Science Fiction Association Award and has been shortlisted for the Hugo and Nebula awards.

In 1990, he worked with Stanley Kubrick on what became
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
(2001), completed by Steven Spielberg after Kubrick’s death.

Two collections:
The Best of Ian Watson
and
The Uncollected Ian Watson
were recently published.

F.
Paul Wilson
is the award-winning,
New York Times
best-selling author of forty-plus books and many short stories spanning genres including medical thrillers, science fiction, horror, adventure, and virtually everything between. More than nine million copies of his books are in print in the United States, and his work has been translated into twenty languages. He also has written for the stage, screen, and interactive media.

His latest thriller,
Dark City
, starring the notorious urban mercenary Repairman Jack and is the second of The Early Years Trilogy following
Cold City
.
Fear City
, the last in the trilogy is about to be published.

He currently resides at the Jersey Shore and can be found online at www.repairmanjack.com.

Douglas E. Winter
is a writer and lawyer. He is the author of the novel
Run
and several critically acclaimed short stories and novellas.

Winter edited the horror anthologies
Prime Evil
and
Revelations
as well as the interviews collection
Faces of Fear
. His other nonfiction works include
Stephen King: The Art of Darkness
,
Faces of Fear
, and
Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic
.

A.
C. Wise
was born and raised in Montreal and currently lives in the Philadelphia area. Her fiction has appeared in such publications as
Clarkesworld
,
Lightspeed
,
Apex
, and
The Best Horror of the Year Volume 4
, among others. In addition to her writing, she co-edits
Unlikely Story
, an online magazine publishing three unlikely themed issues per year. You can find her online at www.acwise.net.

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Silver Scream,
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Whispers V
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Silver Scream
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Chizine
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Conjunctions #42
, Spring 2004. Reprinted by permission of the author.

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J.
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“Filming the Making of the Film of the Making of
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