Master of Ceremonies

Keith R.A. DeCandido has been an author, editor, teacher, martial artist, critic, Census worker, pop-culture commentator, library clerk, sportswriter, and musician over the past four decades, though he’s probably best known at this point as an author. Recent and upcoming work includes his new urban fantasy series Supernatural Crimes Unit NYPD from the Weird Tales Presents imprint of Blackstone Publishing; Feat of Clay, the second book in his urban fantasy series that takes place in his home borough of the Bronx, New York; Phoenix Precinct and Dragon Precinct: Origins, the latest books in his long-running fantasy/police procedure series; several short stories in the magazines Weird Tales and Star Trek Explorer; the Resident Evil graphic novel Infinite Darkness: The Beginning, a prequel to the Netflix animated series; the urban fantasy short story collection Ragnarok and a Hard Place: More Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet; Animal, the comic book adaptation of the 2021 serial-killer novel he wrote with Dr. Munish K. Batra; short fiction in the anthology series Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight, Sherlock Holmes: Eliminate the Impossible, Phenomenons, Forgotten Lore, Defending the Future, and Thrilling Adventure Yarns; and stories in the anthologies Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird, The Green Hornet & Kato: Detroit Noir City, Joe Ledger: Unbreakable, Multiverse of Mystery, and The Good, the Bad, and the Uncanny, as well as in two anthologies he co-edited, The Four ???? of the Apocalypse (with Wrenn Simms) and Double Trouble: An Anthology of Two-Fisted Team-Ups (with Jonathan Maberry). Keith writes regularly about pop culture for the award-winning webzine Reactor Magazine (formerly Tor.com), for his Patreon (patreon.com/krad), and for essay collections published by ATB Publishing, Becky Books, Crazy 8 Press, Sequart, and WordFire Press.

In addition, Keith is the percussionist for the parody band Boogie Knights and is a fourth-degree black belt in karate (he not only trains regularly, but also teaches to both kids and adults). Find out less at his mediocre web site at DeCandido.net.