Darrell Schweitzer is the author of The Mask of the Sorcerer, The Shattered Goddess, The White Isle, and about 250 fantasy short stories, which have been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies (Twilight Zone, Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, etc.). He now has eight short story collections in print, the most recent of which is Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer (Wildside Press), two of which, Transients (1993) and Necromancies and Netherworlds (a collaboration with Jason Van Hollander, 1999) were World Fantasy Award finalists. He has also been nominated for the WFA for Best Novella and won it, with George Scithers, in the Special Pro category for co-editing Weird Tales. His nonfiction includes Pathways from Elfland a book on Lord Dunsany, Discovering H. P. Lovecraft, and The Thomas Ligotti Reader. He is also a poet, with a real non-subsidized collection, Groping Toward the Light in print, though his accomplishments in this area are completely overshadowed by his ability to rhyme “Cthulhu” in a limerick. Despite this, he has twice been nominated for the Rhysling Award and won the Asimov’s SF reader’s award for best poem of 2006.

His latest publications include the anthology (edited with Martin Greenberg) The Secret History of Vampires published by DAW, “A Lost City of the Jungle” in James Lowder’s Astounding Hero Tales, several translations of his stories in the French magazine Faeries, poetry in Paradox magazine, Mythic Delirium etc. and numerous essays and reviews in The New York Review of Science Fiction. Forthcoming are a story-cycle Living With the Dead to be published as a short book by PS Publishing in England, plus, from Wildside Press The Robert E. Howard Reader, and from Borgo Press (an imprint of Wildside Press), Speaking of Horror II, a book of interviews, The Fantastic Horizon a new collection of essays, and a new collection of poetry.