among the finest." So Timothy Maywood Usher Mouse sailed on.
RICHARD LAYMON is the author of over thirty novels and seventy short stories. He received Bram Stoker Award nominations for four of his books and won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for The Traveling Vampire Show. A native of Chicago, Laymon attended Willamette University in Salem, Oregon and received his Masters Degree in English Literature from Loyola University of Los Angeles. He was a longtime resident of Los Angeles, where he lived with his wife and daughter. Laymon's fiction is published by Headline in the United Kingdom, and by Leisure Books and Cemetery Dance Publications in the United States.
ALAN M. CLARK hails from Nashville, Tennessee. Receiving his education at the San Francisco Art Institute, he became a free lance illustrator in 1984. He is the recipient of the World Fantasy Award and four Chesley Awards. He and his wife live in Eugene, Oregon.