John Pelan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

John Pelan

American writer

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1957

Place of Birth: Seattle, Washington, United States

Profession: journalist, literary critic, novelist, science fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About John Pelan

  • John C.
  • Pelan (born July 19, 1957) is an American author, editor and publisher in the small press science-fiction, weird and horror fiction genres. He first founded Axolotl Press in 1986 and published several volumes by authors such as Tim Powers, Charles de Lint, Michael Shea and James P.
  • Blaylock.
  • Following this, he founded Darkside Press, Silver Salamander Press and co-founded Midnight House.
  • Darkside Press printed classics of Science Fiction, Midnight House published classic horror fiction (including Charles Birkin, Jane Rice and R.
  • R.
  • Ryan) and Silver Salamander Press was devoted to new works of modern horror, but all three have been inactive since 2006. Pelan has edited over two dozen single-author collections and novels by such authors as Russell Kirk, Violet Hunt and Fritz Leiber for various publishers including Ash-Tree Press.
  • He is currently working on assembling collections by, Uel Key, Daniel F.
  • Galouye and Richard B.
  • Gamon.
  • He is also the editor of several "new fiction" anthologies, including Darkside: Horror for the Next Millennium, The Devil Is Not Mocked, The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique, The Children of Cthulhu and the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Darker Side. Pelan's short stories have appeared in Carpe Noctem, The Urbanite, Enigmatic Tales, and on-line at Gothic.net and Horrorfind.com.
  • His first novella, the Lovecraftian work The Colour Out of Darkness, was published by Cemetery Dance Publications.

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