MAYNARD SIMS

BIOGRAPHY: MAYNARD SIMS www.maynard-sims.com

Four supernatural novels, Shelter, Demon Eyes, and the two Department 18 books (www.dept18.com) Black Cathedral and Night Souls, have been published mass market by Leisure in USA. Currently they have completed two standalone supernatural novels, the third Department 18 novel and are working on the fourth Department 18 book.

They have completed two thrillers and are currently working on a third book. They have also completed two collections of supernatural stories.

Numerous stories have been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines, including the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, the anthology, Strange Tales, which won the World Fantasy Award 2004 and the Del Rey anthology, The Children Of Cthulhu

Collections include, Shadows At Midnight, 1979 and 1999 (revised and enlarged), Echoes Of Darkness, 2000, Incantations, 2002, two retrospective collections of their stories, essays and interviews, The Secret Geography Of Nightmare and Selling Dark Miracles, both 2002, one introduced by Hugh Lamb and the other by Stephen Jones, and Falling Into Heaven in 2004.

Novellas, Moths, The Hidden Language Of Demons, The Seminar, and Double Act, have been published in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2007 respectively.

They worked as editors on the first seven volumes of Darkness Rising, and the two annual Darkness Rising anthologies. They co-edited and published F20 with The British Fantasy Society. As editors/publishers they ran Enigmatic Press in the UK, which produced Enigmatic Tales, and its sister titles. They wrote essays for the Mark Chadbourn website At The World's End.

Personal contact can be made at Michael@micksims.f9.co.uk or len@lenmaynard.co.uk
3 Cutlers Close, St Michaels Mead, Bishops Stortford, Herts, CM23 4FW, England
And they can also be found at http://www.myspace.com/maynardsims
On Facebook, separately under Len Maynard & Michael Sims.
And they have a message board at http://www.horrorworld.org/massmarket.htm