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seattle , washington , united states 150px american 1957 horror fiction , science-fiction no free image.png john pelan
 john pelan writer , editor , publisher
john pelan

john c. pelan -lrb- born 1957 -rrb- is an american author , editor and publisher in the small press science-fiction , weird and horror fiction genres .
he first founded axolotl press in 1986 and published several volumes by authors such as tim powers , charles de lint , michael shea and james p. blaylock .
following this , he founded darkside press , silver salamander press and co-founded midnight house .
darkside press printed classics of science fiction , midnight house published classic horror fiction -lrb- including charles birkin , jane rice and r. r. ryan -rrb- and silver salamander press was devoted to new works of modern horror , but all three have been inactive since 2006 .
pelan has edited over two dozen single-author collections and novels by such authors as russell kirk , violet hunt and fritz leiber for various publishers including ash-tree press .
he is currently working on assembling collections by , uel key , daniel f. galouye and richard b. gamon .
he is also the editor of several `` new fiction '' anthologies , including `` darkside : horror for the next millennium '' , `` the devil is not mocked '' , `` the last continent : new tales of zothique '' , `` the children of cthulhu '' and the bram stoker award-winning `` the darker side '' .
pelan 's short stories have appeared in `` carpe noctem , the urbanite '' , `` enigmatic tales '' , and on-line at gothic.net and horrorfind.com .
his first novella , the lovecraftian work `` the colour out of darkness '' , was published by cemetery dance publications .
