Combat Monsters: Untold Tales of World War II

Henry Herz has authored fourteen picture books and edited eight anthologies for Albert Whitman & Co., Blackstone Publishing, and others. His short stories have been published by Weird Tales, Baen Books, Pseudopod, Metastellar, Titan Books, Highlights for Children, and Ladybug magazine. He holds a BS in engineering from Cornell University, an MS in engineering from George Washington University, and an MA in political science from Georgetown University.

Joshua Palmatier was born in Coudersport, PA, but since his father was in the military he moved around. A lot. He started writing science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories in the eighth grade, and hasn’t stopped writing since. He now resides in upstate New York, where he teaches mathematics at the State University of New York.

Jane Yolen has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century. She has written over three hundred books, including Owl Moon and The Devil’s Arithmetic. She splits her time between Massachusetts and Scotland.

Mary Fan is the author of several novels, including Artificial Absolutes and Starswept, both of which have received praise from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. She is also coeditor of the independently published Brave New Girls anthologies, which are aimed at encouraging girls to explore STEM fields. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of several novels and fiction collections as well as Writing Speculative Fiction. Her books Ivory's Story, Danged Black Thing, and Saving Shadows were finalists for the British Science Fiction Association Awards, and she has been nominated for, or has won awards, including the Foreword Indies Award, Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant, Otherwise Fellowship, Nommo Award, and others. Bacon's creative work has appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing, Fantasy magazine, Year's Best African Speculative Fiction, and Fantasy & Science Fiction.

Jeff Edwards is a retired Navy chief and anti-submarine warfare specialist. From chasing Soviet submarines during the Cold War to launching cruise missiles in the Persian Gulf, he had a military career of twenty-three years that spanned the globe. He lives in California with his wife and family where he works as a military consultant.

Peter Clines is the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Room, Paradox Bound, several books set in the Threshold universe, and the Ex-Heroes series. He grew up in the Stephen King fallout zone of Maine and—inspired by comic books, Star Wars, and Saturday morning cartoons—began writing horrible X-Men and Boba Fett stories at an early age. Clines lives in southern California. Visit his website at www.PeterClines.com.

Lee Murray ONZM is a multi-award-winning author, editor, essayist, poet, and screenwriter from Aotearoa, New Zealand. A USA Today Bestselling author, Shirley Jackson and five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, she is a New Zealand Prime Minister’s Award-winner for Literary Achievement in Fiction. Lee lives in the sunny Bay of Plenty with her well-behaved family and a naughty dog.

Bishop O’Connell authored the fantasy novels The Stolen, The Forgotten, Three Promises, and The Returned, all from Harper Voyager Impulse.

Tori Eldridge is the author of The Ninja’s Oath, book four in the Lily Wong thriller series—nominated for the Anthony, Lefty, and Macavity Awards, winner of the 2021 Crimson Scribe Best Book of the Year—and the Brazilian dark fantasy Dance among the Flames. Her shorter works appear in numerous anthologies. A former actress, singer, and dancer on Broadway, television, and film, Tori holds a fifth-degree black belt in To-Shin Do ninja martial arts. ToriEldridge.com.

Harry Turtledove, known as the “Master of Alternative History,” is the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of a number of bestselling series and standalone novels. He received his PhD from UCLA in Byzantine history and worked as a technical writer for the Los Angeles County Office of Education before becoming a full-time fiction writer. He also served as the treasurer of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He has written a number of successful series, including the Crosstime Traffic series, the Darkness series, and the Worldwar I Colonization series, among others. His standalone works include Ruled Brittania, Every Inch a King, Conan of Venarium, Household Gods, and Justinian.

Catherine Stine is a USA Today bestselling author of historical fantasy, paranormal romance, sci-fi thrillers, and young adult fiction. Witch of the Wild Beasts won a second prize spot in the 2019 RWA Sheila Contest. Other novels have earned Indie No-table awards and New York Public Library Best Books for Teens.

Scott Sigler is a popular podcaster and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and their dog.

Gaby Triana is the Cuban American author of twenty-five books for adults and teens, including Moon Child, Island of Bones, River of Ghosts, City of Spells, Wake the Hollow, Cubanita, and Summer of Yesterday. Her short stories have appeared in Classic Monsters Unleashed, A Tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, A Conjuring for All Seasons, Novus Monstrum, and Weird Tales Magazine. She has coauthored ghost hunters Sam and Colby’s horror novel, Paradise Island, and edited the ghost anthology series Literally Dead (Tales of Halloween Hauntings and Tales of Holiday Hauntings). Her books have won the IRA Teen Choice Award, ALA Best Paperback, and Hispanic magazine’s Good Reads awards.

Ann Dávila Cardinal is a novelist and director of recruitment for the Vermont College of Fine Arts where she also earned her MFA degree in writing. She comes from a long line of Puerto Rican writers, including father and son poets Virgilio and José Antonio Dávila and her cousin, award-winning fiction writer Tere Dávila.

Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times bestselling author, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, four-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, and comic book writer. His vampire apocalypse book series, V-Wars, became a Netflix original series. He writes horror, science fiction, epic fantasy, thrillers, and more. He is the president of the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers and the editor of Weird Tales magazine.

Andrea Tang pens fiction by night and collects geopolitical gossip by day. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the University of Oxford, she’s also a perpetually recovering theater kid, Fulbright scholar, former pentathlete, tae kwon do black belt, and serial dabbler in various martial and movement arts. Among other things, she enjoys superheroes, giant robots, and the endless versatility of pie.

Kevin Andrew Murphy is an American novelist and game writer currently living in Reno, Nevada. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has a masters of professional writing from the University of Southern California. He has written game books and fiction for Steve Jackson Games and White Wolf, including the solo Mage novel Penny Dreadful, and fiction for numerous anthologies. He is one of the contributors to the Wild Cards series edited by George R. R. Martin, for which his story “Find the Lady” in Mississippi Roll won the 2019 Darrell Award for Best Midsouth Novella.

Jeremy Robinson is the author of bestselling thrillers, including XOM-B, SecondWorld, The Last Hunter: Descent, Project Nemesis, and the Jack Sigler thrillers, including Threshold and Ragnarok. His novels have been translated into ten languages. He began his creative career as a comic book illustrator and screenwriter.

Tanya Huff spent three years in the Canadian Naval Reserve then earned a degree in radio and television arts from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute. She is the author of numerous short stories and more than twenty novels, including the bestselling Blood books, the Smoke series, and the Keeper’s Chronicles. She has been the guest of honor at numerous American and Canadian conventions, and her work has been nominated for several awards, including winning the Aurora Award for Best Novel. She lives in Ontario, Canada.

David Mack is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels and novellas, including the Star Trek Destiny and Cold Equations trilogies. Beyond novels, Mack’s writing credits span several media, including television, film, short fiction, magazines, newspapers, comic books, computer games, radio, and live theater. Mack resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.

Feodor Chin, an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an actor classically trained at the American Conservatory Theater and UCLA. His acting career includes numerous credits in film, television, theater, and voice-over.

Antony Ferguson, Earphones Award–winning narrator, was born in London. He has performed successfully on both sides of the Atlantic and has played many leading roles in theater, film, and television.

JD Jackson is a theater professor, aspiring stage director, and award-winning audiobook narrator. He is a classically trained actor, and his television and film credits include roles on House, ER, Law & Order, Hack, Sherrybaby, Diary of a City Priest, and Lucky Number Slevin. He is the recipient of more than a dozen Earphones Awards for narration and an Odyssey Honor for G. Neri’s Ghetto Cowboy, and he was also named one of AudioFile magazine’s Best Voices of the Year for 2012 and 2013. An adjunct professor at Los Angeles Southwest College, he has an MFA in theater from Temple University.

Eunice Wong is a classically trained actor who works extensively in professional theaters across the United States and in New York City, as well as having appeared on HBO, NBC, ABC, Comedy Central, and in various independent films. Eunice is a graduate of the Juilliard School Drama Division Actor Training Program and has also studied piano and singing at the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto. A first-generation Chinese Canadian, born in Toronto to Eric and Eleanor Wong, who immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong, Eunice grew up with her brother Eugene in Toronto and thanks her family for their constant love and support.

Tim Campbell, winner of AudioFile Earphones Awards, is a narrator and actor based in Los Angeles, California. He studied at the University of California and earned a BA in music and theater and a certification from the prestigious Great Books program at Pepperdine University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He is also a classically trained singer and performs regularly with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Los Angeles Opera Chorus, as well as on studio soundtracks for film and television.

Curtis Michael Holland has craved performing and sharing what he knows ever since he first experienced the adrenaline rush of a connected audience. With a mixed background that is Canadian-Greek, African, and Indigenous (Blackfoot and Cherokee), you could say that he emerges from a rich mosaic of storytellers. Then, there's the fact that he has lived across three different continents-four, if you count the Middle East as its own. Nevertheless, the world is his home and he loves exploring new corners of it. Along this journey, he has developed basic proficiency yet refined pronunciation in: Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, French, and Italian. Curtis's worldly adventure began once he left his home in small-town Canada to teach students theater around the world as soon as he earned his honors degrees. This member of the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities is proud to share his spirited, textured, and entertaining voice. On one hand he loves bringing authenticity to queer romances and young adult fiction; on the other, he enjoys flirting with stories of horror, thrills, and high tension. Whatever the tale may be, it is his ultimate goal to educate and entertain.

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.

Heath Miller is a voice talent and Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator.

Marcio Catalano is an American performer with more than twenty years of experience as an actor, voice actor, spokesperson, model, stuntman, and writer. He has recorded over three hundred audiobooks. He has a passion for telling the story as if living vicariously through the character he is portraying.

Pun Bandhu is an award-winning actor who has worked on Broadway, off Broadway, in TV, and in film. He is the recipient of the Colorado Theatre Guild’s Henry Award for Best Supporting Actor and New Dramatists’ Bowden Award for his distinguished collaboration on new works.

Zura Johnson is a classically trained stage actor. She has performed in stages from her childhood home in California to the East coast, and all the way to Singapore. She has now worked in theater and as a voice actor for more than twenty years. She holds an MFA from the Old Globe Theatre and the University of San Diego.

P. J. Ochlan is an Audie Award–winning, multiple Earphones Award–winning, and Voice Arts Award–nominated narrator of hundreds of audiobooks. His acting career spans more than thirty years and has also included Broadway, the New York Shakespeare Festival under Joseph Papp, critically acclaimed feature films, and television series regular roles.

Natasha Soudek was raised in the South, speaks native German, lived in Berlin and Vienna, and finally settled in the Lower East Side of New York City. After honing her stage presence by studying acting and playing hundreds of live music shows (singing and playing bass), she moved to LA to record with Channel/DreamWorks and act on TV. Her voice is as distinct and memorable as the range of characters she’s played on-screen.

Gary Tiedemann is a Florida and New York-based narrator, but learned how to act in Chicago's improv, sketch-comedy, and theater scene. He came to audiobook narration after voicing countless commercials and videos over a twenty-year voice-over career. Gary has also appeared in hundreds of improv and sketch performances at Chicago's Annoyance Theatre, iO, The Second City, and in dozens of theater roles as a cofounder of The New Colony Theatre. When Gary is not in a booth, he is probably outside wondering if there is time to go camping.

Bradford Hastings is a voice talent and audiobook narrator.