Vincent Pendergast lives beside the Port Kembla steelworks in Australia, an industrial wonderland of sulfurous smokestacks, crumbling coke ovens, and the rusting relics of a time when the world really did run on steam. He has spent the last few years at the University of Wollongong, and has tried his hand at a number of genres–horror, fantasy, and science fiction, with a particular interest in the spaces in between. His story in The Clockwork Jungle Book is his second publication; his first appeared in Nossa Morte’s anniversary issue.

Vincent Pendergast’s Shimmer stories:

• “Otto’s Elephant,” The Clockwork Jungle Book (Issue #11) (Click here to hear Vincent read it! – 3.2 MB, MP3 file)