Keith RA DeCandido

Keith R.A. DeCandido’s recent and upcoming work includes five short stories that have appeared in Star Trek Explorer magazine; Supernatural Crimes Unit, a new fantasy series debuting in 2025 from the Weird Tales Presents imprint of Blackstone Publishing; a story in the Farscape 25th Anniversary Special comic book, with art by Francesco Mortarino & Christian Prunesti; the Resident Evil graphic novel Infinite Darkness: The Beginning, a prequel to the Netflix animated series, with art by Carmelo Zagaria; Manticore Precinct, the latest novel in his long-running fantasy/police procedure series; Feat of Clay, the second book in his urban fantasy series that takes place in his home borough of the Bronx, New York; the urban fantasy short story collection Ragnarok and a Hard Place: More Tales of Cassie Zukav, Weirdness Magnet; Animal, the upcoming comic book adaptation of the 2021 serial-killer novel he wrote with Dr. Munish K. Batra, with art by fellow Shore Leave guest JK Woodward; short fiction in the anthology series Sherlock Holmes: Cases by Candlelight (published by fellow Shore Leave guest Christopher D. Abbott), Phenomenons (the shared-world superhero series created by fellow Shore Leave guest Michael Jan Friedman), Forgotten Lore (steampunk anthologies edited by fellow Shore Leave guest Danielle Ackley-McPhail), and Thrilling Adventure Yarns (the pulp series edited by fellow Shore Leave guest Robert Greenberger); and stories in the anthologies Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird, A Trove of Legacies, Joe Ledger: Unbreakable, Sherlock Holmes: Eliminate the Impossible, 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.

Keith is also a fourth-degree black belt in karate (he not only trains regularly, but also teaches to both kids and adults), a professional musician (currently percussionist for longtime Shore Leave musical guests, Boogie Knights), and a professional editor of more than 25 years; standing (though he usually does it sitting down).