Five Stories High

Jonathan Oliver is the multi-award winning editor of the anthologies The End of the Line, Magic, House of Fear, End of the Road and Dangerous Games. He is the editor in chief at Rebellion publishing.Robert Shearman has written five short story collections, and between them they have won the World Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Edge Hill Readers Prize, and three British Fantasy Awards. A dramatist and regular writer for BBC Radio, he is probably best known for his work on Doctor Who.After a spectacularly unsuccessful career as a lawyer, K. J. Parker started writing for a living in 1995. He won the World Fantasy Award for best novella two years running, and also writes under the name Tom Holt.Sarah Lotz is a novelist and screenwriter with a fondness for the macabre and fake names. Her collaborative and solo novels have been translated into over twenty-five languages.Tade Thompson lives and works in the south of England. He is the author of the novels Making Wolf (which won the Golden Tentacle Award at the 2016 Kitschies) and Rosewater, and his short fiction is widely published. His background is in medicine, psychiatry and social anthropology.Nina Allan’s stories have appeared in Best Horror of the Year, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy and The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women. Her novella Spin, story cycle The Silver Wind and debut novel The Race won or were nominated for a host of awards. Nina lives and works in North Devon.

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