Bowen is the author of Diary of a Vampire and a collection of erotic science fiction, Queer Destinies. In the works are a second novel and collection. In addition, Maryland’s Bowen has published more than a hundred pieces of short fiction in venues ranging from Drummer to Dead of Night magazines. Bowen is the consulting editor for Obelisk Books.
England’s Campbell has been writing ghost and horror stories for more than thirty years. A selection from his first three decades, Alone with the Horrors, received the 1994 World Fantasy Award and the Stoker Award of the Horror Writers Association. His novel The Long Lost was given the British Fantasy Award, and both books gained him the Liverpool Daily Post & Echo Award for Literature. His most recent novel is The One Safe Place.
New Yorker deMonterice has upcoming stories in Cyber-Psychos A.O.D., Scifant, and Bohemian Chronicle. As associate editor at Space & Time magazine, she is also finishing work on her first novel, which blends horror, mystery, and science fiction.
Faust is a former professional dominatrix who has recently given up that profession to become a writer. She has had short fiction published in such anthologies as Young Blood, Millennium, and Love in Vein. The Californian, who occasionally collaborates with Poppy Z. Brite, is currently working on her first novel.
Garrett sold numerous erotic thrillers to men’s magazines before joining forces with Jeff Gelb to create the Hot Blood series. His work has recently appeared in the Shock Rock series and the Fear Itself anthology. He is an instructor for the Writer’s Digest School and teaches weekend writing seminars. Garrett lives in Alabama.
Gelb and Garrett came up with the idea for the Hot Blood series in a pool in New Orleans in 1987, and the rest is history. Gelb is the editor of the Shock Rock and Fear Itself series, and is developing Danger!, a suspense anthology, with Garrett. Gelb is also a comics historian and novice comics scripter for Bettie Page comics. He lives in California.
Hodge has written for film, comics, and books, including his most recent, Prototype. He has also published fifty-some short stories and novelettes in a variety of anthologies, and has recently turned his attention to crime fiction. The Illinois resident says he is, by nature, very curious and experimental, but so far still has all his original limbs.
California’s Jones is an illustrator and writer with extensive TV credits, including many episodes during the first season of HBO’s Hitchhiker series, and the TV movie “My Boyfriend’s Back.” His novels include Stalker’s Moon, In Deep, Game Running, and the upcoming Maximum Velocity.
Maryland’s Lee has sold nine horror novels, most recently Sacrifice. With t-Winter Damon, Lee has cowritten the screenplay to Rex Miller’s Slob, as well as the books The Epicycle and Shifters. Lee is also marketing collaborative novels with Elizabeth Staffen and fellow Hot Blood contributor Alexa deMonterice.
England’s Lumley is the author of more than twenty horror novels, including the highly successful Psychomech and Necroscope series. Since publication of Bloodwars, the final volume of his massive Vampire World Trilogy, he has been arranging more collections of short stories, and is currently working on the new two-volume Necroscope: The Lost Years.
Nowadays a frequent traveler to Eastern Europe, where his horror novels have achieved extraordinary success, Masterton has recently completed two collections of short stories and two ghost novels, Spirit and The House that Jack Built. He lives in England.
Navarro’s fiction and illustrations have appeared in more than forty publications. Her first novel, Afterage, was nominated for a Bram Stoker award, and her second, deadrush, was recently published. Illinois resident Navarro is also the author of the novelization of the MGM movie Species.
Indiana’s Newton has published 114 books since 1977, with ten others pending release and three more under contract. In addition to fifty-odd installments of the Mack Bolan Executioner series, his recent works include Raising Hell, Silent Rage, and Cat and Mouse (from Pocket Books).
New York’s Piccirilli reasons that all the vowels in his name helped propel his Pocket Books horror novel Dark Father to best-sellerdom in Italy. Co-editor of Pirate Writings and Space & Time magazines, his collection of witchcraft tales, Pentacle, was recently published.
California’s Rathbone has written stories for Writers of the Future Vol. 8, Air Fish, TechnoSex, Prisoners of the Night, and others, and such magazines as Midnight Graffiti and Figment. Her poetry appears regularly in Asmiov’s SF, Aboriginal SF, and others, and has been published in two chapbooks, Anything to Do with Dreams, and Moon Canoes. She is working on her third novel.
Rosenman’s first novel, The Best Laugh Last, went through two printings in 1981–82. Since then he has sold fiction to eighty magazines and anthologies, including The Horror Show, Cemetery Dance, New Blood, Iniquities, Terminal Fright, Dead of Night Magazine, Galaxy, Offworld, and Starshore. An editor of Dark Regions, Rosenman is also an English professor at Norfolk State University.
California’s Stevens is a world-renowned “Scream Queen” with over two dozen film credits. Among her most recent film roles is Mommy, directed by Max Allan Collins from his short story in Fear Itself. Stevens is the heroine of comic books, trading cards, and model kits. When not acting, she’s at work on movie scripts, short fiction, and a childrens’ book.
Taylor’s horror fiction has appeared in Hotter Blood, The Hot Blood Series: Deadly After Dark, Northern Frights, The Mammoth Book of Erotic Horror, and many others. Her work has also appeared in such publications as Pulphouse and Cemetery Dance. Her collections include Close to the Bone, The Flesh Artist, and Unnatural Acts and Other Stories. The Colorado resident’s novel, The Safety of Unknown Cities, appeared in 1995.
Edo van Belkom is the author of Wyrm Wolf and of over 80 short stories that have appeared in anthologies such as Shock Rock 2, Fear Itself, Year’s Best Horror 20, and the Northern Frights series. He is a contributing editor of the SFWA Bulletin and Horror magazine and lives in Ontario.