John Pelan

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name = John Pelan


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birthplace = Seattle, Washington, United States
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occupation = writer, editor, publisher
nationality = American
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genre = Horror fiction, Science-fiction
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website = http://www.darksidepress.com/pelan.html

John C. Pelan (born 1957) is an 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 prints classics of Science Fiction, Midnight House publishes classic horror fiction and Silver Salamander Press is devoted to new works of modern horror.

Pelan has edited over two dozen single-author collections and novels by such authors as Russell Kirk, Violet Hunt, Louisa Baldwin, Keith Fleming, Fritz Leiber and Clive Pemberton, for Ash-Tree Press, Sarob Press and Midnight House. He is currently working on assembling collections by Richard B. Gamon, Uel Key and Daniel F. Galouye for publication by Darkside Press and Midnight House. 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 "The Urbanite", Gothic.net, "Enigmatic Tales", "Carpe Noctem" and Horrorfind.com. A collection of Pelan's ghost fiction, titled "Darkness, My Old Friend", is forthcoming from Ash-Tree Press. His first novella, the Lovecraftian work "The Colour Out of Darkness", was published by Cemetery Dance Publications, and he has a second novella, "Breaking the Lines", currently in the works.cite press release
title = The Dark Arts
publisher = Cemetery Dance Publications
date = 2006
url = http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/pelan03
accessdate = 2006-09-15] cite press release
title = The Children of Cthulhu
publisher = Del Rey Books
date = 2003
url = http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345441089
accessdate = 2006-09-15] cite press release
title = John Pelan Bio
publisher = Necro Publications
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url = http://www.necropublications.com/bios/pelan.htm
accessdate = 2006-09-15]

hort stories

* "The Piano Player Has No Fingers" co-authored with Edward Lee and published in "Palace Corbie" #7 (1997)
* "Genesis Revisited" published in "Palace Corbie" #7 (1997)
* "Girl’s Night Out" co-authored with Edward Lee and published in "Brutarian" #23 (1997)
* "The Case of the Police Officer’s Cock Ring and The Piano Player Who Had No Fingers", co-authored with Edward Lee, Dark Raptor Press (1998)
* "Stillborn" co-authored with Edward Lee and published in "Imagination Fully Dilated", editors Alan M. Clark & Elizabeth Engstrom (Cemetery Dance Publications, 1998)
* "TV Eye" published in "Nasty Piece of Work" #10 (1998)
* "Twins" published in "The Urbanite" #10 (1998)

Novels

* "Goon" co-authored with Edward Lee, Necro Publications (1995):"Goon" co-authored with Edward Lee, The Overlook Connection (2003)
* "Shifters" co-authored with Edward Lee, Obsidian Books,(1998)
* "Splatterspunk: The Micah Hayes Stories" co-authored with Edward Lee, Sideshow Press (1998)
* "An Antique Vintage", The Gargadillo Press (1999)
* "The Colour Out of Darkness", Cemetery Dance Publications (2004)

Anthologies edited

* "Axolotl Special 1", Axolotl Press (1989)
* "Darkside: Horror for the Next Millennium", Darkside Press (1995):"Darkside: Horror for the Next Millennium", Penguin Books (1997)
* "The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique", Shadowlands Press (1999)
* "The Children of Cthulhu" co-edited with Benjamin Adams, Del Rey Books (2002)
* "The Darker Side: Generations of Horror", Penguin Books (2002)
* "Shadows Over Baker Street" co-edited with Michael Reaves, Del Rey Books (2003)
* "Lost on the Darkside", Roc Books (2005)

Citations

External links

* [http://www.darksidepress.com/pelan.html John Pelan]
* [http://www.darksidepress.com/ Darkside Press]
* [http://www.darksidepress.com/ Midnight House]
* [http://www.darksidepress.com/silver.html Silver Salamander Press]