Ryan Andrews lives in the Japanese countryside, with his wife, two kids, their dog, and a few noisy chickens. A friendly Kodama or two have been known to take up residence in the giant acorn tree that shades the house. He works at his drawing desk in the early morning hours, often to the sound of rummaging wild boar and badgers, who come from the surrounding forest seeking out shiitake mushrooms and fallen chestnuts.
He is the author of the Eisner Award nominated This Was Our Pact, published in 2019 by First Second. He has also written several short stories, including Sarah and the Seed and Our Bloodstained Roof, both nominated for Eisner Awards in the best digital comics category.
Ryan is currently working on his second graphic novel and wor
Michael McDowell is a prolific horror writer who has distinguished himself with a varied body of work within the genre. He was born in Enterprise, Alabama, in 1950 and died of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999.
His first horror novel, The Amulet, relates the tragedies that befall various individuals who come in possession of a supernatural pendant in a small town.
In McDowell's second novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon, a murdered woman's corpse is dispatched into a river, but her spirit roams the land, and in the evening hours it seeks revenge on her killer even as he plots the demise of her surviving relatives.
Don D'Ammassa, writing in the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, noted that McDowell's ability to
Andrea Stewart is the Chinese American daughter of immigrants, and was raised in a number of places across the United States. Her parents always emphasized science and education, so she spent her childhood immersed in Star Trek and odd-smelling library books. When her (admittedly ambitious) dreams of becoming a dragon slayer didn't pan out, she instead turned to writing books. She now lives in sunny California, and in addition to writing, can be found herding cats, looking at birds, and falling down research rabbit holes.
Maurice Leblanc (1864 - 1941) was a French novelist, best known as the creator of gentleman thief (later detective) Arsène Lupin.
Leblanc began as a journalist, until he was asked to write a short story filler, and created, more gallant and dashing than English counterpart Sherlock Holmes.
Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl
Ryan Andrews lives in the Japanese countryside, with his wife, two kids, their dog, and a few noisy chickens. A friendly Kodama or two have been known to take up residence in the giant acorn tree that shades the house. He works at his drawing desk in the early morning hours, often to the sound of rummaging wild boar and badgers, who come from the surrounding forest seeking out shiitake mushrooms and fallen chestnuts.
He is the author of the Eisner Award nominated This Was Our Pact, published in 2019 by First Second. He has also written several short stories, including Sarah and the Seed and Our Bloodstained Roof, both nominated for Eisner Awards in the best digital comics category.
Ryan is currently working on his second graphic novel and wor
Morgane Moncomble est une autrice française spécialisée dans le genre de la romance. Elle a écrit depuis ses débuts une dizaine de romans, dont L'As de cœur, En équilibre, Nos âmes tourmentées.
