John Shirley is the winner of the Bram Stoker and International Horror Guild Awards for his short story collection Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side (Mark Ziesing/Leisure, 1997), also picked as one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. City Come A-Walkin' (Dell, 1990), his seminal cyberpunk and early urban fantasy novel, was selected as one of the year's best books by the Locus Reader's Poll. His most recent books are Living Shadows: A Collection (Prime Books, 2007) and the novels Black Glass: The Lost Cyberpunk Novel (Elder Signs Press, 2008) and Bleak History (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Other novels include Transmaniacon (Zebra Books, 1979), Dracula in Love (Zebra Books, 1979), Three-Ring Psychus (Zebra Books, 1980), The Brigade (Avon, 1981), Cellars (Avon, 1982), In Darkness Waiting (NAL Onyx, 1988), A Splendid Chaos (Frankin Watts, 1988), Wetbones (Mark V. Ziesing, 1992), Silicon Embrace (Mark V. Ziesing, 1996), The View from Hell (Subterranean Press, 2001), … And the Angel with the Television Eyes (Night Shade Books, 2001), Spider Moon (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2002), Demons (Del Rey/Ballantine, 2002), Crawlers (Del Rey/Ballantine, 2003), and The Other End (Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006); the trilogy Eclipse (Bluejay Books, 1985), Eclipse Penumbra (Questar, 1988), and Eclipse Corona (Questar, 1990), comprising "A Song Called Youth"; and novels in various universes, including Kamus of Kadizhar: The Black Hole of Carcosa (St. Martin's Press, 1988), Doom (Pocket Star, 2005), Predator: Forever Midnight (DH Press, 2006), Batman: Dead White (Del Rey/Ballantine, 2006), and Aliens: Steel Egg (Dark Horse, 2007). His collections include the cyberpunk Heatseeker (Scream/Press, 1989), New Noir (Black Ice Books, 1993), The Exploded Heart (Eyeball Books, 1996), Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories (Night Shade Books, 1999), and Darkness Divided (Stealth Press, 2001). He has also written screenplays, most notably for The Crow (1994), the nonfiction book Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas (Penguin/Tarcher, 2004), and lyrics for Blue Öyster Cult.