Simon McCaffery

Simon McCaffery is an American author of speculative fiction (born 1963). Trained as a journalist and magazine editor, he was an Honorable Mention recipient in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest twice before he began publishing short fiction in a variety of professional science fiction, horror and mystery publications in the 1990s, including" Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine", "Tomorrow SF" (edited by the late Algis Budrys), and "Space and Time". His fiction has also been collected in anthologies including the "Book of the Dead" series edited by Splatterpunk authors John Mason Skipp and Craig Spector ("Still Dead" and" Mondo Zombie"), "100 Wicked Little Witch Stories", and "The Haunted Hour".

He also served as president of the Oklahoma Science Fiction Writers in Tulsa, Okla., and edited the monthly newsletter, "Son of GPIC", for a number of years.

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Books in Print Links:

100 Wicked Little Witch Stories available from Barnes & Noble: [http://search.barnesandnoble.com/100-Wicked-Little-Witch-Stories/Stefan-Dziemianowicz/e/9781402709760]

Mondo Zombie available at Amazon: [http://www.amazon.com/Mondo-Zombie-John-Skipp/dp/1587670402]

"Mondo Zombie" review by Booklist:

"Zombies movies are hot now, what with Shaun of the Dead, The Corpse Bride, and zombie classic Night of the Living Dead's only begetter George A. Romero's first new dead flick in 20-plus years, Land of the Dead. Zombie fiction's burgeoning, too. The stuff overrelies on a single, familiar plot, though. A plague of undead hits, resulting in apocalypse. The living are hunted, and things usually don't end well. Undead yarns work best when the "rules" (e.g., zombies are basically dumb, slow, and hungry) are broken, as many of editor Skipp's selections attest. In "Maternal Instinct," Robert Bloch innovatively imagines two types of walking dead: Type B is run-of-the-mill, long dead, and decaying; Type A is freshly deceased and talks, thinks, and holds public office. In the cinematic "Connections," Simon McCaffery offers a new twist on gated communities, and Ian McDowell's "Dead Loves" must be the most disturbingly wonderful story to feature a dead Dolly Parton. Not every entry here's a winner, but horror fans really should delve into this collection." -- Carlos Orellana

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Bibliographies: [http://authors.wizards.pro/authors/writers/simon-mccaffery] [http://www.geocities.com/konstiantin/osfw/authors/SM.html] [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Simon%20McCaffery]

Locus SF Author Index [http://www.locusmag.com/index/]

The Haunted Hour contents [http://www.philsp.com/homeville/MSF/t55.htm]