Local Author: Mike Allen

Mike Allen is a writer, editor and publisher, local to the Roanoke area. He and his wife, Anita Allen, run Mythic Delirium Books, an imprint that’s home to the Clockwork Phoenix anthology series, as well as books like Bone Swans by C.S.E. Cooney (World Fantasy Award winner for best story collection), Latchkey by Nicole Kornher-Stace (named one of the best young adult books of 2018 by Kirkus Reviews), Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora Goss (starred review, Publishers Weekly) and The History of Soul 2065 by Barbara Krasnoff (starred review, Publishers Weekly).

A Nebula, Shirley Jackson and two-time World Fantasy Award finalist, Mike has written several poetry collections, including Strange Wisdoms of the Dead (a Philadephia Inquirer editor’s choice selection), The Journey to Kailash and Hungry Constellations; a twisted dark fantasy novel, The Black Fire Concerto; and three collections of strange and scary short fictions, Unseaming, The Spider Tapestries: Seven Strange Stories and Aftermath of an Industrial Accident. His latest personal project is a dark fantasy and horror anthology, A Sinister Quartet, produced in collaboration with C.S.E. Cooney, Amanda J. McGee and Jessica P. Wick.

His poems and stories have appeared in The Best Horror of the Year, Nebula Award Showcase, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror, Cthulhu’s Reign, Solaris Rising 2, Tomorrow’s Cthulhu, Transmissions from Punktown, The Bible of Hell, Tales to Terrify, Podcastle, Pseudopod, The Drabblecast, Kaleidocast, Santa Clara Review, Artemis, Not One of Us, Lackington’s and many more publications.