Daryl Gregory

Daryl Gregory's first novel, PANDEMONIUM, appeared from Del Rey Books in 2008 and won the Crawford Award for 2009. It was also a finalist for several other awards, including the Shirley Jackson Award and the World Fantasy Award. It's a romp that takes in Jungian archetypes, superheroes, and demonic possession. His second novel, 2009's THE DEVIL'S ALPHABET, was named one of the best books of the year by Publisher's Weekly and was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. The book combines murder, quantum evolution, and religion in a small mountain town. RAISING STONY MAYHALL, his third novel, will be appearing in June, 2011. It's a coming of age tale about the most polite living dead boy you'd ever want to meet. His short stories have appeared in Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and a variety of "year's best" anthologies and foreign editions. His story "Second Person, Present Tense" won the Asimov's Readers' Choice Award and was a Sturgeon finalist. The stories run the gamut from neuroscience to religion to superheroes.