Paul F. Olson has been a professional writer and editor for the past 30 years. His first novel, Night Prophets, was published in 1989. He is also the author of the dark suspense novel Alexander's Song, plus many short stories, essays, reviews, interviews, articles and other works. In the late 1980's, he published and edited Horrorstruck: The World of Dark Fantasy, a non-fiction trade magazine for horror fans and professionals. With the late David B. Silva, he co-edited the anthologies Post Mortem: New Tales of Ghostly Horror and Dead End: City Limits, and created the award-winning newsletter Hellnotes, which he and Silva edited together for five years. His short story collection, Whispered Echoes, is forthcoming from Cemetery Dance Publications. The book contains eleven previously-published stories and a brand new novella called "Bloodybones." He is also editing Better Weird, a Silva tribute anthology that will be published by Cemetery Dance. In 2012, after seventeen long years, he stepped down from his job as the editor of a weekly small-town newspaper in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The father of adult twin daughters, he currently lives in Brimley, Michigan.