Brian James Freeman is the author of The Painted Darkness, Blue November Storms, The Echo of Memory, The Halloween Children (with Norman Prentiss), Darkness Whispers (with Richard Chizmar), and four mini-collections of his short fiction. With Glenn Chadbourne, he's creating the "Friendly Little Monsters" series, which launched with The Zombie Who Cried Human. He is also the editor of Midnight Under the Big Top, Dark Screams (with Richard Chizmar), Detours, Reading Stephen King, and the Halloween Carnival anthology series.