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Ray Russell (1924 1999) was a pioneer of the modern horror genre. As an editor at Playboy, he helped publish such writers as Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, and Charles Beaumont. His best known work, Sardonicus, was called by Stephen King perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written. He receivedthe World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1991. Laird Barron is a writer of horror fiction. He has received three Shirley Jackson Awards, for his collections The Imago Sequence and Other Stories and Occultation and Other Stories and for his novella Mysterium Tremendum. His other works include two novels, The Light Is the Darkness and The Croning, and a story collection, The Beautiful Things That Awaits Us All. He lives in upstate New York.
Provocative, shocking, moving * Kirkus Reviews * [Sardonicus is] perhaps the finest example of the modern gothic ever written -- Stephen King Russell links postpulp literature and the Grand Grand Guignol tradition with the modern sensibilities of America in the 1960s... a fascinating combination of the liberal and the heretic -- Guillermo del Toro
