Darrell Schweitzer was a World Fantasy Award finalist (with Jason Van Hollander) for best collection in 2000, for Necromancies And Netherworlds. His other most recent books are another collection, Nightscapes, a volume of poetry, Groping Toward the Light, and a pamphlet of funny Lovecraftian rhymes, Stop Me Before I Do It Again!. His two novels, The Shattered Goddess and The Mask Of The Sorcerer, are available from the Science Fiction Book Club. His stories have appeared in Amazing, Interzone, Twilight Zone, Night Cry, Wierdbook, Whispers, and numerous anthologies, including the recent Barnes & Nobel Crafty Cat Crimes. His story "The Fire Eggs" was just reprinted in Year's Best Science Fiction edited by David Hartwell. Some of his other collections are Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out, Transients, We Are All Legends, and Refugees From An Imaginary Country. He has written book-length studies of Lord Dunsany and H. P. Lovecraft and reviews for Aboriginal SF and The New York Review of Science Fiction.

He has been co-editor of Weird Tales since 1988.