
Angel Leigh McCoy wears the mantles of author, storyteller, game designer, and audiobook narrator.
She is the creative force behind the Wyrdwood series of novels and the Dire Multiverse audio drama.
She wrote for the PC games CONTROL and GUILD WARS 2, and she edited print anthologies such as ANOTHER DIMENSION and DEEP CUTS.
Ellen Datlow awarded her short story “Crack O’Doom” (printed in the anthology Fear of the Dark) an honorable mention in the Best Horror of the Year, volume 4, 2012.
Neil Gaiman handed her an award and shook her hand for her short story “Coquettrice” at the World Horror Convention 1999 (one of the magical moments of her early career!).
Angel believes strongly in doing her part to advance the careers of other writers. She not only publishes them at WilyWriters.com and in her anthologies, but she also mentors them and teaches the occasional workshop.
She got her first taste of online and multiplayer storytelling in the late 80s when she discovered MUSHes and learned MUSH code to guide stories for dozens of players.
Later, in the 90s, she became the first East Central Regional Storyteller for the CAMARILLA, guiding stories across thousands of players in five states, as well as supporting the national and international stories in the game.
Throughout the 90s, she did freelance game design for companies such as White Wolf, FASA, and West End Games.
In the early 00s, she was hired as the first female game designer on the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS team at Wizards of the Coast.
Over the course of five years at Microsoft Game Studios, she worked on the web team and shipped such titles as Zoo Tycoon 2, Rise of Nations, Microsoft Flight Simulator X, Shadowrun, Crimson Skies, Conker, Blinx, Viva Pinata, Perfect Dark Zero, and many others.
At Xbox.com, she was the game correspondent Wireless Angel.
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Summary: There’s something magical about that sense of terror that grips you in the middle of sleep, when your heart pounds, you can’t catch your breath, and you know the monster is seconds away from grabbing you. While this anthology occasionally records the odd hallucination or vision from beyond, you’ll find no dream sequences here. These nine stories are designed to induce nightmares. Table of Contents: In “La Japonesa” by Lisa Morton, a college professor chasing tenure comes face to face with something with sharp claws and even sharper teeth. Weston Ochse cuts deep in “Glue and the Art of Supermodel Maintenance.” Officer Warren Hastings can’t escape the crime he didn’t prevent in Yvonne Navarro’s “Recall.” In Jennifer Brozek’s “Twenty Questions,” Sara discovers some games must be played until the end. E.S. Magill reminds us that every civilization has its myths of supernatural protectors of the natural world. During a hiking expedition, Harris Kimball encounters the spectral guardians of California’s Santa Lucia Mountains, whose mission is to stop the greatest threat to nature: humans. In Angel Leigh McCoy’s “The Haunting of Mrs. Poole,” Amelia seems to have it all: wealthy husband, devoted sister, perfect daughter…and a gothic mansion on the shore of the James River where nothing is what it seems. The line between reality and delirium blurs for an exhausted new mother in Alison J. McKenzie’s “Into the Quiet.” In Bill Bodden’s “The House on River Road,” Ed and Jerry discover some urban legends are more than legendary…and some abandoned houses are better left alone. Finally, Loren Rhoads grew up in a small town. She remembers how they can be in “Elle a Vu un Loup.”

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What’s real? What’s imagined?
Viviane is schizophrenic. It’s genetic—from her mother’s side of the family. She can usually handle her hallucinations, but when one of them starts killing people, Viviane discovers that nothing in her world is as mundane as she thought it was. Especially not her fiancé who brings his own special magic to their relationship. It’s a long fall from the moon, and Reality will never be the same.
Escape with Viviane into the dark of night where romance is thwarted by the sinister machinations of family politics and the clash between two very different worlds.

