Doomslayers features the talents of Lucy Taylor and Matthew J. Costello. Ms. Taylor won the Bram Stoker Award for her novel The Safety of Unknown Cities, and has also published works including The Flesh Artist and the short story collection Unnatural Acts. Her writing has been described as "precise, poetic, alluring, and at all times, erotic" by the Review of Contemporary Fiction. Ms. Taylor's story "Enthralled" opens the book and chronicles the meeting of a ghostly hunter and her old lover in an unexpected--and unwelcome-- place.

Matthew J. Costello is perhaps best known for scripting the bestselling CD-ROM games The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour. HIs novels have achieved both critical acclaim and commercial success, as Darkborn was recognized by Science Fiction Chronicle as one of the "Best Novels of 1992," Homecoming was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and The Wizard of Tizare was a B.Dalton best-seller. The latest project Costello has worked on is The Masque with best-selling author F. Paul Wilson. Costello's "Expedition" tells the story of a disastrous trip to an impossible site in the Antarctic, a site that's been abandoned by the living for centuries--but never by the dead.

The next book in the sequence, Renegades, is highlighted by stories from P.D. Cacek and Tom Deitz. Ms. Cacek has won one Bram Stoker Award and is nominated for another this year. Her writings include the short story collection Leavings, and the just-published vampire novel Night Prayers. "CAT," the story that opens Renegades, is the tale of a love for vengeance that's far stronger than reason or death.

Award-winning author Tom Deitz' fantasy novels (Windmaster's Bane, The Gryphon King and many others) have focused primarily on interactions between Celtic myth and the modern South: In his story "Viking," Deitz follows the title character across the seas of the dead in search of an unattainable revenge Deitz explores his favorite themes here, mixing the ancient with the modern, but this time with a macabre twist.