More Stories from the Twilight Zone (57 page)

 

M. Tara Crowl
grew up in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and recently graduated from film school at the University of Southern California. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

 

Peter Crowther
is the recipient of numerous awards for his writing, his editing, and, as publisher, for the hugely successful PS imprint. As well as being widely translated, his short stories have been adapted for TV on both sides of the Atlantic and collected in
The Longest Single Note, Lonesome Roads, Songs of Leaving, Cold Comforts, The Spaces Between the Lines, The Land at the End of the Working Day,
and the upcoming
Things I Didn't Know My Father Knew
. He is the coauthor (with James Lovegrove) of
Escardy Gap
and author of the “Forever Twilight” SF/horror cycle (
Darkness, Darkness
and
Windows to the Soul
already available, and
Darkness Rising
due in summer 2010). He lives and works with his wife and business partner, Nicky, on the Yorkshire coast.

 

Loren D. Estleman
has published more than sixty novels and two hundred short stories in the areas of suspense, historical western, and mainstream. He has won seventeen national writing awards, including five Spurs, four Shamuses, and the Elmer Kelton Award, bestowed by the German Association for the Study of the Western. In addition, he has been nominated for the Edgar and the American Book Award. In 2002, his alma mater, Eastern Michigan University, presented him with an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters. He lives in Michigan with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.

 

John Farris
has been called “the best writer of horror at work today” and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Horror Writers Association in 2001. His thirty-nine titles have sold twenty-two million copies worldwide in twenty-five languages. His most recent novels are
You Don't Scare Me
and
High Bloods
. He wrote and directed the cult-classic film
Dear, Dead Delilah,
and has written many other screenplays. He had a short-lived career as a playwright in his twenties. His only produced play,
The Death of the Well-Loved Boy,
Farris fondly recalls as having received “the worst reviews since Attila the Hun.” He lives near Atlanta, Georgia. Please send favorable reviews and notes of appreciation to [email protected].

 

A graduate of Yale University,
Peter Farris
has collaborated on numerous screenplays with his father, John Farris. Their script
You Don't Scare Me
was optioned by New Films International and is currently in preproduction. Peter's first novel, a racing satire called
The Eggshell,
was described by legendary motorsports journalist Monte Dutton as a work that would make him “the Salman Rushdie of NASCAR nation.” While waiting for an editor brave enough to buy
The Eggshell,
Farris has written a second novel and is hard at work on a third. He lives in Cobb County, Georgia, with his girlfriend, Heather, and a black cat named Grimm.

 

David Gerrold
is the author (and father of)
The Martian Child,
the basis for the 2007 movie starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Bobby Coleman. He's also known as the creator of
Star Trek
's Tribbles,
Land of the Lost
's Sleestak, and his own much more terrifying Chtorrans in
The War Against the Chtorr.
He's published more than fifty books, including
When HARLIE Was One, The Man Who Folded Himself,
and
Jumping Off the Planet.
In his spare time, he redesigns his Web site,
www.gerrold.com
.

 

Nancy Holder
is the
New York Times
bestselling coauthor of the dark fantasy series
Wicked,
which has been picked up by Dream-Works. She also writes the young adult horror
Possessions
series. She has received four Bram Stoker Awards for her supernatural fiction and has written many books set in the
Smallville, Saving Grace,
and
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
universes. A true Disney geek, she can frequently be seen in the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror gift shop, purchasing more bath towels for her Disney-themed house. She lives in San Diego with her daughter, Belle, the cats, David and Kittnen Snow Vampire, Panda, a psychic Cardigan Welsh Corgi, and by the time this book comes out, they will have another dog, the Pembroke Corgi Tater Tot, la Comtesse de Pommepomme-Yip.

 

Lee Lawless
is the author of several award-winning plays, two screenplays, and a vast compendium of postmodern rock and roll music. In addition to her avant-garde short films and visual artwork, Lawless was a contributing editor of
The Weekly World Wiretap
e-zine and
Harlem Today
magazine. She plays guitar, cowrites and sings for the apocalypse-rock outfit Universal Truth Machine, and lives in a possibly haunted historical building in Harlem, New York City.

 

One of
Jane Lindskold
's earliest story sales was “Good Boy” in the anthology
Journeys to the Twilight Zone
. Since then, she has published more than sixty short stories and twenty-some novels. Her novels include the six volumes of the “Wolf Series” and the three books in the “Breaking the Wall” series. She lives in New Mexico with her husband, archaeologist Jim Moore, and assorted small animals.

 

Jean Rabe
is a book hoarder, a museum patron, a student of Egyptian symbolism, and a goldfish fancier. She is also the author of twenty-seven novels and more than five dozen short stories. When she's not writing or editing, she delights in tossing tennis
balls and tugging on old socks with her three dogs. Visit her at
www.jeanrabe.com
.

 

Kristine Kathryn Rusch
is a bestselling, award-winning author who has written under a variety of names in fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and romance. Her latest novel,
Diving into the Wreck
from Pyr, is based on the award-winning novellas first published in
Asimov's Science Fiction
magazine.

 

Robert J. (Bob) Serling
is Rod Serling's older brother and a prolific author himself, with twenty-five published nonfiction and fiction works, mostly dealing with the airline and aerospace industries. Among his seven novels is the bestselling
The President's Plane Is Missing
. Before becoming a full-time freelance author, he was aviation editor of United Press International and at age ninety-two is regarded by his peers as the dean of aviation writers. He served as technical advisor on Rod's acclaimed
TZ
episode “Odyssey of Flight 33.”

 

Rod Serling
(1924–1975) worked in the television area for twenty-five years, developing, in addition to the landmark
Twilight Zone
series,
Night Gallery
and
The Loner,
and countless drama anthologies, including
Requiem for a Heavyweight
and
Patterns
. During his career he won more Emmy Awards for dramatic writing than anyone in history. He also wrote the screenplay for the very first
Planet of the Apes
film, which embodied everything Serling was interested in as a writer. He continued to write for television while teaching in Ithaca, New York, until his death in 1975, leaving an indelible imprint on television that would inspire countless future writers and artists.

 

Susan Slater
is the author of six published mysteries—four in the Ben Pecos Indian series,
The Pumpkin Seed Massacre, Yellow Lies, Thunderbird
, and a novella,
A Way to the Manger,
and two stand-alones,
Flash Flood
and
Five O'Clock Shadow
. Her novel
0 to 60
is
women's fiction and has been optioned for a feature film. Susan lives thirty miles west of Taos and writes full-time.

 

Dean Wesley Smith
is the bestselling author of over ninety novels and hundreds of short stories. Some of his first sales were to the
Twilight Zone
magazine and its sister publication,
Night Cry,
in the 1980s. He is best known for his work on
Star Trek, Men in Black,
and
Spider-Man
novels, and is currently writing thrillers under another name.

 

Norman Spinrad
is the author of some twenty or so novels, five or six dozen short stories, a classic
Star Trek
episode, a couple of flop movies, an album's worth of songs, political columns, film criticism, literary criticism, mini-cookbooks, autobiography, and a bunch of assorted other stuff. The latest to be written is a new and literarily revolutionary novel called
Welcome to Your Dream-time,
in which you, the reader, are the viewpoint character, and sections of which have been published in a weird assortment of magazines as free standing short stories. The latest to be published is
He Walked Among Us,
a novel so far ahead of itself that it had to wait until it had become something of the fave rave of a radical viral Internet distribution experiment before any traditional publisher would bring it out in paper.

 

 

 

Carol Serling
has been involved with the writing career of her husband from its very inception, and all through the
Twilight Zone
years she was his first reader and toughest critic. Since her husband's death in 1975, Carol has maintained a self-contained industry working with the literary and cinematic legacy that Rod left behind . . . the latest work being this anthology written in the spirit of the Zone.