Tom English

Tom English is a retired environmental chemist who enjoys writing stories both weird and wonderful. His fiction has appeared in magazines such as Weirdbook and All Hallows, as well as in several print anthologies, including Detective Thrillers Short Stories and Haunted House Short Stories (both from Flame Tree Publishing); Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes; Re-Haunt; and Challenger Unbound. His nonfiction books include Spiritual Boot Camp for Creators and Dreamers; Diet for Dreamers (inspirational stories about inventors, writers, artists, actors, etc.); The Heart of an Angel (the biblical basis of hospitality); and Angel in the Kitchen (Wit & Wisdom Inspired by Food, Cooking, Kitchen Tools and Appliances). Tom also edited the mammoth Bound for Evil: Curious Tales of Books Gone Bad (a 2008 Shirley Jackson Award finalist for best anthology). He currently edits two illustrated print magazines, Nightmare Abbey (terror tales) and Black Infinity (retro SF). He resides with his wife, fellow writer and speaker Wilma Espaillat English, surrounded by books and beasts, deep in the woods of New Kent, Virginia.