That's the nice thing about insanity: evil people kill you, but crazy ones try to make you understand.

Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really.

Mira Grant is actually my pseudonym. And Seanan is pronounced SHAWN-in.

If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.

There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.

Protecting the human race should really come with a per diem, I swear.

There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it’s not backed up by anything but fear.