About the Author

BRENDAN DENEEN is the author of the award-winning novel The Ninth Circle, as well as the graphic novels Scatterbrain, The Island of Misfit Toys, and three Flash Gordon graphic novels: The Mercy Wars, Attack of the Red Sword, and The Vengeance of Ming. He has published a handful of stories and essays in publications from St. Martin's Press, Writers Digest Books, and 13Thirty Books, and recently wrote his first picture book, Night Night Groot for Marvel. His horror novel The Chrysalis arrives from Tor Books in October 2018. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two daughters. Co-editor DavID G. Barnett lives on the outskirts of Orlando, FL with his goofy, rescue dog Dexter. During the day he works as a graphic designer for his Fat Cat Graphic Design company designing books for lots of small press publishers. He's also known as DJ L.D. and runs an industrial / EBM / synthpop / electro podcast at dancemachine5000.com. He has managed to run Necro Publications since 1993, publishing some of the best names in modern horror: Edward Lee, Brian Keene, Brian Hodge, Charlee Jacob, Gerard Houarner, Mehitobel Wilson, Jeffrey Thomas, Patrick Lestewka and dozens of others in various anthologies. Dave has been published in a couple of the Shivers anthologies from Cemetery Dance Publications. He also has a story in the two-author chapbook The Baby along with Edward Lee. His collection, Dead Souls, came out from Shocklines Press in 2004 and at least a couple of people seemed to like it. He released the novella Spying on Gods in 2014. Tales of the Fallen: Book 1-Awakenings is the first in a series of books containing tales about angels and demons that will finally come together (fingers crossed) in one climatic battle for Heaven. Neon Wings is the second book in the series. You can visit his official site at: evilwriter.com