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Darrell Schweitzer (b. August 27, 1952) has lived all his life in the Philadelphia area, though he is widely-traveled. He has been publishing fantastic fiction and critical commentary since the early 1970s. His work has appeared in Twilight Zone Magazine, Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Whispers, Amazing Stories, Fantasy Tales and elsewhere. His three published novels are The White Isle, The Shattered Goddess and The Mask of the Sorcerer. His short story and poetry collections include Tom O’Bedlam’s Night Out, Transients, Refugees from an Imaginary Country, Nightscapes: Tales of the Ominous and Magical, Necromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny Stories (with Jason van Hollander), The Great World and the Small: More Tales of the Ominous and Magical, Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer and Groping Toward the Light: Poems for Midnight and After. His non-fiction books include a collection of essays, Windows of the Imagination, book-length studies of Lord Dunsany and H.P. Lovecraft, and numerous critical symposia such as The Thomas Ligotti Reader, Discovering Modern Horror Fiction I and II, Discovering Classic Horror Fiction and Speaking of Horror: Interviews with Writers of the Supernatural. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Science Fiction and has been co-editor of the revived Weird Tales since 1987, for which he won the World Fantasy Award in 1992 with George H. Scithers.