Simon Strantzas is the author of the critically-acclaimed Cold to the Touch (Tartarus Press, 2009), a collection of thirteen tales of the strange and supernatural. His first collection, Beneath the Surface (reprinted by Dark Regions Press, 2010), has been called "one of the most important debut short story collections in the genre". Strantzas's stories have appeared in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Cemetery Dance, and Postscripts. In 2009, his work was nominated for the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. His third collection, Nightingale Songs, is now available from Dark Regions Press.

He lives in Toronto, Canada, with his wife and an unyielding hunger for the flesh of the living. He may be contacted here.

"[Simon Strantzas has] inherited the mantle of Robert Aickman in terms of subtle and enigmatic disquiet."

— Ramsey Campbell

"...an expert in urban ennui."

— Ellen Datlow

"Strantzas deftly establishes ordinary and seemingly innocuous situations that spin out of the characters' control and always end with an uneasy sense of menace, even when their resolution is ambiguous or cryptic."

— Publishers Weekly

"A damned fine writer and head and shoulders one of the best in the genre. He eschews lazy writing: he works hard at what he does, and it shows."

— T.M. Wright

"A rare talent in the field of contemporary horror; a writer who is able to convey his shadow-laden worldview through literate and well-tempered prose. His contributions to the legacy of weird fiction are sure to be lasting ones."

— Richard Gavin

"His is a stark new voice in the black chambers of the weird underground that ought to make followers of Ligotti, Aickman, and Lovecraft bolt up and take notice. It's clear that Strantzas is a student of the rich atmosphere and the bizarre subtleties of the dark scribes mentioned."

— The Grim Review

"Simon's prose has an elegant tranquility to it that belies the shadowy themes of loss and identity that permeate his work."

— Michael Kelly

"[A]n excellent writer who likes to deal with the weirdest and more mysterious aspects of human condition, who likes to disturb and upset and manages to do that very effectively by emphasising the dark shades lurking behind the light of everyday reality."

— The Short Review