Bastards of Alchemy

Gerard Houarner is the kind of person who wandered away from the village at a tender age, spent too much time in the wilderness, and these days returns only on ceremonial occasions or to scare the little children. His latest mass market novel, Road to Hell, will be released from Leisure in early 2003. His latest collection, Visions Through A Shattered Lens, will be out shortly from Delirium. He serves as Fiction Editor for Space and Time Magazine. For the latest news, as well as the old stuff, visit his site at www.cith.org/gerard.Tom Piccirilli is the author of ten novels, including A Lower Deep, Grave Men, The Night Class, Hexes, The Deceased, The Dead Past, Sorrow's Crown, and Shards. He's sold over 100 stories to the anthologies such as Museum Of Horrors, Dark Arts, The Darker Side, Bad News, October Dreams, Be Very Afraid, Hot Blood: Stranger By Night, Hot Blood: Fear The Fever, Hot Blood: Crimes Of Passion, Noirotica 3, Star Colonies, Future Crimes, The Conspiracy Files, White House Horrors, Terminal Frights, Cat Crimes Through Time, Felonious Felines, Best Of The American West II, Desperadoes, Guns Of The West, Boot Hill, and the magazines Cemetery Dance, Gothic.net, Fantastic, The Third Alternative, Deathrealm, CrimeWave, Terminal Fright, Lore, Talebones, and Hardboiled, among many others. He's also the recipient of the first Bram Stoker Award given in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, for his collection A Student Of Hell. Tom lives in Estes Park, Colorado.