Costa Koutsoutis is a writer of weird stuff from horror to crime to fantasy to sci-fi...and even some of it mashed up together. Raised on punk rock, fantasy novels, Japanese anime, and horror movies, he's the author of stuff like the short fantasy & sci-fi short story collection STRONGER THAN SWORDS, the near-future sci-fi mystery THE GO-BETWEEN, and most recently, the horror novel THE VAST COLD DARK and fantasy novella THE HOWL OF THE EARTH (vol.I, "A Low Red Threat").