Monstrous Affections

DAVID NICKLE Is a Toronto-based author and journalist whose fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies like Cemetery Dance, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, the Northern Frights series and the Queer Fear series. Some of it has been collected in his book of stories, Monstrous Affections. His first solo novel, Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism, led the National Post to call him “a worthy heir to the mantle of Stephen King” and the novel was a finalist for the Compton Crook, Aurora, and Sunburst Awards in 2012. His most recent novel, Rasputin’s Bastards, was called “supernatural eeriness at its best” by Library Journal. His next novel, The ’Geisters, will be released by ChiZine Publications in June 2013. In addition to writing fiction, Nickle also works as a reporter, covering Toronto municipal politics for a chain of community newspapers.