Born is Seattle, John Pelan was inspired to become
a writer at age thirteen when he discovered that Arkham House had
published a book submitted by Ramsey Campbell at age sixteen. Not
as precocious as Mr. Campbell, it was another two decades before
he would begin writing seriously. Prior to launching his writing
career he worked as a sales trainer, mixologist, steel-worker, and
antiquarian bookseller. In 1986 he founded Axolotl Press and
published several well-received volumes by authors such as Tim
Powers, Charles de Lint, Michael Shea, and James P. Blaylock. He
is the editor of several popular anthologies, including the Bram
Stoker Award winning The Darker Side. His most recent anthology
project is the massive tome(s) The Century's Best Horror
where Pelan selected the best story of each year
from 1901-2000. The book took nearly three years of work to
complete, but is now being turned in to the publisher and should
see publication in 2004.
With Edward Lee, he is co-author of the novels
Goon, Shifters, and Family
Tradition and the collection Splatterspunk and several short
stories which will be collected in book form by the Overlook
Connection Press. While his work with Edward Lee tends toward the
graphic and extreme, Pelan's solo work is far more traditional and
understated.
His new novella, The Colour out of
Darkness is available from Cemetery Dance Publications. A
major collection of his ghostly fiction Darkness, My Old
Friend is forthcoming in 2005 from Ash-Tree Press. As a
researcher and historian of the horror genre John has edited over
two-dozen single author collections including collections by
Russell Kirk and Violet Hunt for Ash-Tree Press. He is currently
working on assembling collections by Fritz Leiber, Charles Birkin,
and Daniel F. Galouye for publication by Darkside Press and
Midnight House. John lives with his wife Kathy (and their six
cats) in Seattle where they have just celebrated their twentieth
wedding anniversary.
Novels
Goon, Necro Publications (Orlando, FL), 1995 (With
Edward Lee)
Shifters, Obsidian Press (U.S.), 1998 (With Edward Lee)
An
Antique Vintage, The Gargadillo Press, 1999
Short Stories
Splaterspunk, Sideshow (U.S.), 1998 (with Edward Lee)
Anthologies edited
Darkside:
Horror for the Next Millennium, Darkside Press (Seattle), 1995
The Last
Continent: New Tales of Zothique, Shadowlands Press,
1999
Children
of Cthulhu,
Del Rey, 2002 (with Benjamin Adams)
The
Darker Side: Generations of Horror, ROC, 2002
Shadows
over Baker Street, Del Rey, 2003 (with Michael Reaves)
The
Century's Best Horror, Cemetery Dance, 2003
Dark
Arts,
Cemetery Dance, 2004
A Walk on
the Darkside,
ROC, 2004
Single Author Collections edited
The
Selected Manly Wade Wellman Stories, Night Shade Books
The
Shadow on the Blind, by Louisa Baldwin, Ash-Tree Press (Ashcroft,
British Columbia), 2001 (edited with Richard Dalby)
The Black
Gondolier, by
Fritz Leiber, Midnight House, 2000
Smoke
Ghost & Other Apparitions, by Fritz Leiber, Midnight House, 2002 (with
Steve Saville)
Off the
Sand Road, by
Russell Kirk, Ash-Tree Press (Ashcroft, British Columbia),
2002
What
Shadows We Pursue, by Russell Kirk, Ash-Tree Press (Ashcroft,
British Columbia), 2003
The
Basilisk & Tales of Dread, by Murray Gilchrest, Ash-Tree Press (Ashcroft,
British Columbia), 2003 (edited with Christopher Roden)
Can Such
Things Be? & By the Night Express, Sarob Press, 2002 (edited
with Richard Dalby)
Uneasy
Tales, by
Violet Hunt, Ash-Tree Press (Ashcroft, British Columbia),
2003
No Place
Like Earth,
by John Wyndham, Darkside Press, 2003 (with Phil
Stephenson-Payne)
Prelude
to Armageddon, by Cleve Cartmilll, Darkside Press, 2004
My Rose
& My Glove, by Harvey Jacobs, Darkside Press, 2004
The
Shining Hand & Tales of Terror, by J.E. Muddock, Midnight
House, 2004
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