Nicholas Litchfield is the author of the novels When The Actor Inspired Chaos and Bloodshed and Swampjack Virus and editor of twelve literary anthologies. His stories, essays, and book reviews appear in BULL, Colorado Review, Daily Press, The MacGuffin, The Virginian-Pilot, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. He has contributed introductions to numerous books, including twenty-two Stark House Press reprints of long-forgotten mystery novels. Formerly a book critic for the Lancashire Post, syndicated to twenty-five newspapers across the U.K., he now writes for Publishers Weekly. Reach him at nicholaslitchfield.com.