Steve Rasnic Tem is a past winner of the Bram Stoker, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards. He has published over five hundred short stories in his forty-plus year career. Some of his best are collected in Thanatrauma and Figures Unseen from Valancourt Books, and in The Night Doctor & Other Tales from Macabre Ink. In 2024 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association. His latest collection is Queneau’s Alphabet: A Story Cycle, including two stories originally published in The Dark.