David A. Sutton has been working within the fantasy and horror genre for nearly forty years. In recognition of this devotion and achievement in the field, he was awarded the British Fantasy Society Special Award in 1994. He has also won the World Fantasy Award, The International Horror Guild Award and twelve British Fantasy Awards. From producing his own small press magazine and extensive editorial and design work for the British Fantasy Society during the 1970s, he has been involved in editing and publishing numerous small press publications, including the multiple award-winning Fantasy Tales magazine.
More recently he edited and produced Voices from Shadow, a small non-fiction anthology celebrating the 20th anniversary of his genre review magazine Shadow. Fiction anthologies under his editorship include, New Writings in Horror & the Supernatural (two volumes), The Satyr’s Head & Other Tales of Terror, Phantoms of Venice and, jointly edited with Stephen Jones, The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales, The Anthology of Fantasy and the Supernatural, Dark Voices: The Pan Book of Horror Stories (five volumes) and the acclaimed Dark Terrors series. His short stories have appeared in a number of periodicals and anthologies, including Skeleton Crew, Beyond, Kimota, Best New Horror 2 and 7, Final Shadows, Cold Fear, Taste of Fear, Kadath, Fantasy Macabre, The Mammoth Book of Zombies, The Mammoth Book of Werewolves, The New Lovecraft Circle, Shadows Over Innsmouth, The Merlin Chronicles and Beneath the Ground.
David A. Sutton’s horror and dark fantasy fiction has been published in Final Shadows, Skeleton Crew, Shadows Over Innsmouth, Best New Horror, The Mammoth Book of Zombies, The Mammoth Book of Werewolves, Beyond, The Merlin Chronicles and many other publications. He has edited a number of anthologies, including The Satyr’s Head & Other Tales of Terror, The Best Horror from Fantasy Tales, The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, Phantoms of Venice, five volumes of Dark Voices: The Pan Book of Horror and most recently, six volumes of Dark Terrors, The Gollancz Book of Horror.
David's debut collection, CLINICALLY DEAD & OTHER TALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL was published by Crowswing Books in April 2006. The book contains and introduction by Stephen Jones and an afterword by Joel Lane.