Brian James Freeman is the author of Walking With Ghosts, The Painted Darkness, Blue November Storms, The Halloween Children (with Norman Prentiss), Darkness Whispers (with Richard Chizmar), and four mini-collections of his short fiction. He is also the editor of Midnight Under the Big Top, Dark Screams (with Richard Chizmar), Detours, Reading Stephen King, and the Halloween Carnival anthology series. His second children’s book, The Girl Who Builds Monsters, features artwork by award-winning artist Vincent Chong.

Alice Vachss
Alice Vachss, JD, is the former Chief of the Special Victims Bureau of the Queens (NYC) District Attorney’s Office. During her tenure, she tried more than