Sam Weller - Shadow Show

Alice Hoffmanis the author of many bestselling novels including Practical Magic , The Red Garden , and The Dovekeepers . She is currently a visiting scholar at Brandeis University.

John Maclayis the author of more than one hundred published horror and fantasy short stories, many of which have appeared in mass-market anthologies alongside stories by Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Clive Barker, and Stephen King. His most recent collections are A Little Red Book of Vampire Stories , Dreadful Delineations , and Divagations . At Maclay & Associates, 1984–1995, he was publisher of the Masques anthology series and other books in the fantasy and horror field.

Jacquelyn Mitchard, longtime journalist and essayist, is the author of twenty-one books of fiction, including five New York Times bestsellers. Nearly five million copies of her books are in print, in twenty-six languages. Her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean , was the inaugural selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club. She served on the 2004 fiction jury for the National Book Award and is the first Faculty Fellow at Southern New Hampshire University. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and nine children.

Gary A. Braunbeck’swork has garnered six Bram Stoker Awards, an International Horror Guild Award, and a World Fantasy Award nomination. And, he says, that is the “end of anything remotely interesting about him.”

Bonnie Jo Campbellis the author of Once Upon a River , Q Road , Women & Other Animals , and American Salvage , and a finalist for both the 2009 National Book Award finalist and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband and her donkeys, Jack and Don Quixote.

Audrey Niffeneggeris the author of The Time Traveler’s Wife, New York Times bestseller, British Book Award winner, and basis for a film, as well as Her Fearful Symmetry, The Night Bookmobile, and numerous hand-printed and hand-bound books. She is at work on a new novel, The Chinchilla Girl in Exile .

Charles Yuwas named one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” for his debut short-story collection, Third Class Superhero . His first novel, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe , was a New York Times Notable Book and named a Best Book of the Year by Time magazine. Yu’s writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Harvard Review , the Gettysburg Review , the Mid-American Review, the New York Times , Playboy , and the Oxford American . He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Michelle, and their two children.

Julia Keller,winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the author of the young adult novel Back Home and the nonfiction book Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It . She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has taught at Princeton University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Chicago. Her mystery novel, A Killing in the Hills , will be published by St. Martin’s in 2012.

Dave Eggersis the author of many novels and works of nonfiction, including Zeitoun and What Is the What . He is the editor of McSweeney’s .

Bayo Ojikutuis an award-winning novelist— 47th Street Black and Free Burning —and Pushcart Prize–nominated short-story writer. His work has appeared in various magazines and journals. Ojikutu, his wife, and his son currently reside in the Chicago metropolitan area.

Kelly Linkis the author of three short-story collections. With her husband, Gavin J. Grant, she runs Small Beer Press and edits the occasional anthology as well as the zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. They live with their daughter, Ursula, in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Harlan Ellison®has been called “one of the great living American short story writers” by the Washington Post ; the Los Angeles Times said, “It’s long past time for Harlan Ellison to be awarded the title: ‘20th Century Lewis Carroll.’” In a career spanning more than forty years, he has written seventy-five books and more than seventeen hundred stories, essays, articles, and newspaper columns, two dozen teleplays, and a dozen motion pictures. He has won more awards than “any other living fantasist,” including the Hugo eight times, the Nebula three times, the Bram Stoker six times (including the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996), the Edgar Award of the Mystery Writers of America twice, the Georges Méliès fantasy film award twice, two Audie Awards (for the best in audio recordings), and the Silver Pen for Journalism, the latter awarded by PEN, the international writers’ union. A documentary on Ellison, Dreams with Sharp Teeth , was released on DVD in 2009.

A two-time Bram Stoker Award finalist, SAM WELLERis the author of The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury and Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews. He has also written for The Paris Review , National Public Radio, and Publishers Weekly . His short fiction has been published in numerous journals and magazines.

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MORT CASTLEis an author and writing teacher who has published more than five hundred short stories. Twice a winner of the Black Quill Award, seven times a Bram Stoker Award nominee, Castle edited On Writing Horror , the primary reference work for authors of dark fiction.

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“There is no more fitting tribute to my friend Ray Bradbury than a compilation of wonderful short stories! Ray is a champion of libraries and one of America’s most inventive teller of tales. I cherish many happy times engrossed in his stories. This anthology reflects the high imagination, visionary ideas, and fantastic writing that Ray is loved and known for around the world.”

“Great new tales of imagination in the Bradbury tradition.”

“Ray Bradbury is without a doubt one of this or any century’s greatest and most imaginative writers. Shadow Show, a book of truly great stories, is the perfect tribute to America’s master storyteller.”

“ Shadow Show is a treasure trove for Ray Bradbury enthusiasts as for all readers who are drawn to richly imaginative, deftly plotted, startlingly original and unsettling short fiction. No one who knows their darkly fantastic fiction would be surprised to see such renowned names here as Ramsey Campbell, Harlan Ellison, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, and Kelly Link; but it is something of a surprise to see Dave Eggers, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Dan Chaon, Bonnie Jo Campbell, and Julia Keller in this gathering, all of them Ray Bradbury admirers, and all so gifted. The tributes to Ray Bradbury that follow each of the stories are particularly interesting, often heartwarming and inspiring.”