NIGHT I started working on this book with the thought that God isn't dead, and it isn't that he doesn't love us, either. It's just that he wants to give us room enough to be ourselves, even if that means we screw up. If he didn't we'd be nothing but children, and it'd stunt us. I ended up telling a story that isn't that, exactly -- but that's where and what it comes from. That's what's this book -- the story of a man with a forbidding legacy and a destiny he can't imagine growing great enough to face -- means to be. -- Alan Rodgers

Author Biography

Alan Rodgers (1959 - 2014) was a science fiction and horror writer, editor and poet. In the early eighties he was Associate Editor for Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Magazine(1984-1987). Soon after he initiated another project as the Editor of the spin-off horror digest Night Cry (1985-1987). His stories have been published in a number of venues including Weird Tales, Twilight Zone and a number of anthologies such as Darker Masques, Prom Night and Vengeance Fantastic. He began publishing fantasy with Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Form Fiction winner and World Fantasy Award nominee the novelette "The Boy Who Came Back From the Dead"(1987). His debut horror novel "Blood of the Children"(1989) was a Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best First Horror Novel. Other novels to follow were "Fire" (1990), "Night" (1991), "Pandora" (1995), Stoker Award nominee "Bone Music" (1995), "The Bear Who Found Christmas" (2000) and "Her Misbegotten Son" (2000). Rodgers is also known for such works as "Alien Love," "The River of Our Destiny," "Angel of Our Mercy" and "Light." There were two collections of his fiction, "New Life For the Dead" (1992) and "Ghosts Who Cannot Sleep" (2000). He is survived by his three children, Andrea, Alexandra and Abram and his three siblings, Jyaphia, Laurie and Scott as well as his long term romantic interest fiction author Amy Sterling Casil.