John F.D. Taff is a multi-Bram Stoker Award finalist and World Fantasy Award finalist dark fiction author with more than 30 years experience, and more than 125 short stories and seven novels in print. He has appeared in Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, Unnerving, Deathrealm, Big Pulp and One Buck Horror, as well as anthologies such as Hot Blood: Seeds of Fear, Hot Blood: Fear the Fever, Shock Rock II, Lullabies for Suffering, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Behold!, Shadows Over Main Street 2 & 3, Horror Library V, Best of Horror Library, Dark Visions Vol. 1, Ominous Realities, Death's Realm, I Can Taste the Blood Human Monsters, and Savage Beasts and Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse and Bad Manners. His novels include The Bell Witch, Kill-Off and the serialized apocalyptic epic The Fearing. Short fiction collections include The End in All Beginnings, Little Deaths: The Definitive Collection, Little Black Spots, and his latest novella collection, All the Stars Die. Taff's novella collection, The End in All Beginnings, was called one of the best novella collections by Jack Ketchum and was a Stoker Award Finalist. His short "A Winter's Tale" was also a Stoker Finalist. His anthology Dark Stars, a tribute to that seminal '80s work Dark Forces, was a finalist for the World Fantasy award.
