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Christopher Conlon's work has appeared widely in magazines and journals including Poets & Writers, America, Filmfax, Poet Lore, The Long Story, and Tennessee Williams Annual Review, as well as in such anthologies as Masques V and September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond. His first novel, Midnight on Mourn Street (Earthling Publications), is scheduled to appear in 2008, and his latest anthology, He Is Legend: Celebrating Richard Matheson (featuring original stories by Stephen King, Joe Hill, F. Paul Wilson, and many others) will be published by Gauntlet Press in 2009.

“Everything about Conlon's work astonishes me.” –Earl Hamner , creator of The Waltons and Falcon Crest

Perhaps his best-known book is the original fiction anthology Poe’s Lighthouse (Cemetery Dance, 2006), in which 23 contemporary writers each complete a little-known story fragment by Edgar Allan Poe. Booklist called the volume a “unique collection” and “must reading for Poe enthusiasts.”

“A major talent…a superb writer.” –William F. Nolan, author of Logan’s Run

2006 also saw the release of Thundershowers at Dusk: Gothic Stories (Rock Village), a collection of five of Conlon’s best tales. Dark Discoveries magazine praised the stories as “original, complex tales of loneliness and alienation… disturbing and uncomfortable, but also poetic and beautiful.” Ellen Datlow, co-editor of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, 20th Edition, called the collection “excellent” and the title novella “beautifully written and powerful.”

“The finest writer you haven’t read, but damned well ought to be reading.”
–Gary A. Braunbeck, author of In Silent Graves

Winner of the 2004 Peace Corps Writers Prize for Best Poetry Book, Gilbert and Garbo in Love (The Word Works, 2003) was Conlon’s first full-length volume of verse, dubbed a “razzling dazzling tour de force” by The Montserrat Review. A second collection of poetry, The Weeping Time, followed in 2004, and a third, Mary Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt, in 2007.

“A consummate literary artist.” –George Clayton Johnson, author of Twilight Zone Scripts and Stories

Conlon continues to be active in writing and editing. A former Peace Corps Volunteer, he holds an M.A. in American Literature from the University of Maryland and lives with his wife and cats in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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