Peter Lovesey is the author of the Peter Diamond mysteries, the Sergeant Cribb mysteries, and the Bertie, Prince of Wales books. He has received the Cartier Diamond Dagger, the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and the Ellery Queen Readers' Award, among many other honors. Peter lives in Chichester, England. F. Paul Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of horror, adventure, medical thrillers, science fiction, and virtually everything in between. Wilson has won the Prometheus Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Inkpot Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers of America, among other honors. Lyndsay Faye is the author of six critically acclaimed books, including The Gods of Gotham, which was nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. She lives in New York City with her husband, Gabriel. Bradford Morrow is the author of nine novels, including The Forgers, The Diviner's Tale, and The Prague Sonata, as well as a short-story collection, The Uninnocent. He is the founding editor of Conjunctions and has contributed to many anthologies and journals. He lives in New York City. R. L. Stine's books have sold more than 300 million copies, making him one of the most popular children's authors in history. Besides the Goosebumps series, R. L. Stine has written series including Fear Street, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Dangerous Girls. Visit him at rlstine.com. Joyce Carol Oates is the award-winning author of such national bestsellers as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys. Her other titles include Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, and Jack of Spades. Thomas Perry is the bestselling author of over twenty novels, including the critically acclaimed Jane Whitefield series, Forty Thieves, and The Butcher's Boy, which won the Edgar Award. He lives in Southern California. Elizabeth George is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels of psychological suspense, one book of nonfiction, and two short story collections. She lives in Washington State. Carolyn Hart writes the Death on Demand series (set in a mystery bookstore on a South Carolina sea island) and the Bailey Ruth Raeburn series, which features a lively redheaded ghost. Megan Abbott is the Edgar Award–winning author of several novels. She received her PhD in English and American literature from New York University and has taught literature, writing, and film studies at New York University, the New School, and the State University of New York at Oswego. She lives in New York City. Stephen Hunter won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism as well as the 1998 American Society of Newspaper Editors Award for Distinguished Writing in Criticism for his work as film critic at the Washington Post. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Havana, Pale Horse Coming, and Hot Springs. Denise Mina's Garnethill won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasy Dagger for the best first crime novel and was the start of a trilogy completed by Exile and Resolution. She also writes short stories published in various collections, and stories for BBC Radio 4. James Grady is the author of screenplays, articles, and over a dozen critically acclaimed thrillers. He and his wife live in a suburb of Washington DC. Ian Rankin is a Scottish crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels. James W. Hall is the Edgar and Shamus Award–winning author of more than twenty novels, including Under Cover of Daylight, When You Can't Stop, and Bad Axe.