The following audio was recorded live at the KGB Bar on June 17th, 2015 with guests Dale Bailey & Simon Strantzas. Matthew Kressel was traveling, so Kristine Dikeman co-hosted in his place.

The End of the End of Everything by Dale Bailey

Dale Bailey

Dale Bailey’s new collection, The End of the End of Everything, came out in the spring.  A novel, The Subterranean Season, will follow this fall.  He has published three previous novels, The Fallen, House of Bones, and Sleeping Policemen (with Jack Slay, Jr.), and one previous collection of short fiction, The Resurrection Man’s Legacy and Other Stories.  His work has been a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Bram Stoker Award.  His International Horror Guild Award-winning novelette “Death and Suffrage” was adapted for Showtime Television’s Masters of Horror.

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Burnt Black Suns by Simon Strantzas

Simon Strantzas

Simon Strantzas is the author of four collections of strange and weird stories, including Burnt Black Suns. He is also the editor of Aickman’s Heirs and Shadows Edge , as well as guest co-editor of The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 3), His writing has been reprinted in numerous annual best-of anthologies; been translated into other languages; and been nominated for the British Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award.