Mike Allen
Mike Allen has written, edited, or co-edited thirty-nine books, among them his newest horror collection, SLOW BURN, and a duology of dark fantasy novels, THE BLACK FIRE CONCERTO and THE GHOULMAKER’S ARIA, forthcoming from House of Gamut. UNSEAMING and AFTERMATH OF AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT, his first two volumes of horror tales, were both finalists for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Story Collection, and his dark fable “The Button Bin” was a nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. As an editor and publisher of Mythic Delirium Books, he has been nominated twice for the World Fantasy Award: for his anthology CLOCKWORK PHOENIX 5, the most recent volume of his Clockwork Phoenix series; and for MYTHIC DELIRIUM, the magazine of poetry and fiction he edited for twenty years. He’s also a three-time winner of the Rhysling Award for poetry.