BIOGRAPHIES
Gary A. Braunbeck is a prolific author who writes mysteries, thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mainstream literature. He is the author of 19 books; his fiction has been translated into Japanese, French, Italian, Russian and German. Nearly 200 of his short stories have appeared in various publications. Some of his most popular stories are mysteries that have appeared in the Cat Crimes anthology series.
He was born in Newark, Ohio; this city that serves as the model for the fictitious Cedar Hill in many of his stories. The Cedar Hill stories are collected in Graveyard People and Home Before Dark.
His fiction has received several awards, including the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction in 2003 for “Duty” and in 2005 for “We Now Pause for Station Identification”; his collection Destinations Unknown won a Stoker in 2006. His novella “Kiss of the Mudman” received the International Horror Guild Award for Long Fiction in 2005.
Eric S. Brown is the author of numerous books including the Bigfoot War series, the “A Pack of Wolves” series, War of the Worlds Plus Blood Guts and Zombies, Season of Rot, and far too many more to list here. He has also done novelizations of films like Boggy Creek: The Legend is True and The Bloody Rage of Bigfoot. He lives in North Carolina with his family where he continues to write tales of blazing guns, the hungry dead, and the things that lurk in the woods.
2013 hasn’t been a bad year for author / director / editor Dean M Drinkel. First up, was the ‘Tres Librorum Prohibitorum” series of horror anthologies for Western Legends Publishing: The Demonologica Biblica was published in March; The Bestiarum Vocabulum is due out during the fall and finally The Grimorium Verum at Christmas.
For Static Movement, Dean edited Cities of Death (May) to be followed by Demonology later in the year. 2013 also sees the sequel to the 2011 smash Phobophobia entitled Phobophobias, due out at Christmas by Dark Continents Publishing. DCP also published Dean’s own short collection of stories Within A Forest Dark.
Dean was nominated for the Horror Society’s Igor Award for his short story Weird which will be included in their Best Of anthology (October).
Any spare time Dean has left is spent securing funding for his short film script Bright Yellow Gun (which won ‘Best Action Screenplay’ at the 2012 Monaco International Film Festival) and on his horror screenplay The House Of The Flowers.
More about Dean can be found at: http://deanmdrinkelauthor.blogspot.co.uk/
Gary Fry lives in Dracula’s Whitby, literally around the corner from where Bram Stoker was staying when he was thinking about that character. Gary has a PhD is psychology, but his first love is literature. He is the author of many short story collections, novellas and novels. He was the first author in PS Publishing’s Showcase series, and none other than Ramsey Campbell has described him as “a master.” Gary warmly welcomes all to his web presence: www.gary-fry.com
Stephen Bacon’s fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies such as Black Static, Shadows & Tall Trees, Crimewave, Murmurations, several editions of The Black Books of Horror, Crystal Lake Publishing’s For the Night is Dark, Horror For Good, and has been reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year. His debut collection, Peel Back the Sky, was published in 2012 by Gray Friar Press. Forthcoming is an appearance in Cemetery Dance magazine, and Spectral Press will release his chapbook, Simulacra, in 2014. He lives in Yorkshire, UK, with his wife and two sons. His website is www.stephenbacon.co.uk
Taylor Grant is a professional screenwriter, author, multiple award-winning copywriter, filmmaker, actor, editor and publisher. His work has been seen on network television, screened at the Cannes Film Festival, performed on stage, as well appeared in comic books, national magazines, anthologies, the Web, newspapers and heard on the radio.
As an author, Taylor has shared pages with some of the most critically acclaimed and bestselling authors in the horror industry, with stories in publications such as the Bram Stoker Award® nominated anthology Horror For Good, the Bram Stoker Award® nominated series Horror Library, and the multiple award-winning magazine Cemetery Dance. Taylor is currently the Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Evil Jester Comics, and has written comic book adaptations of celebrated works by authors such as Jack Ketchum, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, and William F. Nolan.
Rick Hautala has more than thirty published books to his credit, including the million copy, international best-seller Nightstone, as well as Twilight Time, Little Brothers, Cold Whisper, Impulse, and The Wildman. He has also published four novels—The White Room,Looking Glass, Unbroken, and Follow—using the pseudonym A. J. Matthews. His more than sixty published short stories have appeared in national and international anthologies and magazines. His short story collection Bedbugs was selected as one of the best horror books of the year in 2003.
A novella titled Reunion was published by PS Publications in December, 2009; and Occasional Demons, a short story collection, was published in 2010 from CD Publications. He wrote the screenplays for several short films, including the multiple award-winning The Ugly File, based on the short story by Ed Gorman, as well as Peekers, based on a short story by Kealan Patrick Burke, and Dead @ 17, based on the graphic novel by Josh Howard.
Sadly, Rick Hautala died unexpectedly on March 21, 2013. An autobiography he wrote in 2009 titled The Horror, The Horror was discovered by his wife Holly after his death and is available from Crossroad Press.
His last two books, The Demon’s Wife and Mockingbird Bay, will be published by JournalStone in 2013 and 2014. His sci-fi collaboration with Matt Costello, Star Road, is coming from St. Martins Press in 2014.
Will Jacques is a traditional pen and ink artist. He creates his intricate drawings using only pen and paper. Jacques became fascinated with horror stories when he was a small child and has amassed an impressive collection of horror anthologies. His own work has definite literary overtones, using symbolism and hidden images to draw the viewer in. An avid participant in small-press horror, Jacques has been published in the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. He is also internationally recognized as a ghost hunter and photographer. Jacques maintains his own horror magazine at ghastlydoor.com.
John Kenny is a freelance writer, editor and creative writing tutor. His short stories have appeared in The World SF Blog, Jupiter, First Contact, Woman’s Way, Emerald Eye (an anthology of the Best of Irish Imaginative Fiction), Transtories and many other venues. John has been co-editor of Albedo One since its inception in 1993. Prior to that, he wrote extensively for Stargate, the magazine of the Irish Science Fiction Association, and was editor of FTL, the successor to Stargate. He is editor of original horror anthology Box of Delights for Aeon Press and is currently hawking his mainstream novel Down and Out to publishers. John lives in Dublin, Ireland, with his wife, two daughters and neurotic cat.
Website: http://johnrichardkenny.com/
Steve Lockley is the author of almost a hundred short stories, the Sally Reardon Supernatural Mysteries novella series (with Steven Savile) and novels ranging from Young Adult horror to modern day high octane thriller. He has also worked on a number of TV and game tie-in projects including Doctor Who. His latest novel The Sign of Glaaki, also written with Savile, is set in the world of H P Lovecraft and brings together the legendary Harry Houdini and the young Dennis Wheatley
He has been nominated nine times for British Fantasy awards, and was presented with the British Fantasy Society Special Award in 1996 for his work on the horror convention Welcome to My Nightmare. Steve has also served as a judge for the World Fantasy Awards.
Steve lives in Swansea, Wales.
Adam Lowe is a writer, publisher and creative producer from Leeds, UK. He currently lives in Manchester, where he runs a writer development programme, Young Enigma, and Dog Horn Publishing. His most recent novella, Monster, is out now from Dead Ink Books.
Rena Mason is a longtime horror fan who currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, a member of the Horror Writers Association, and an active member of the International Thriller Writers. Her short story, “The Eyes Have It,” is in the 2013 Bram Stoker Award® nominated anthology, Horror For Good: A Charitable Anthology from Cutting Block Press. Her debut novel The Evolutionist was released March 21st, 2013 from Nightscape Press. The novella East End Girls, a part of JournalStone Publishing’s Double Down series Book 1 was released June 2013. To learn more about Rena and her upcoming projects, visit her website www.renamasonwrites.com.
Joe McKinney has been a patrol officer for the San Antonio Police Department, a homicide detective, a disaster mitigation specialist, a patrol commander, and a successful novelist. His books include the four part Dead World series, Quarantined, Inheritance, Lost Girl of the Lake, The Savage Dead, Crooked House and Dodging Bullets. His short fiction has been collected in The Red Empire and Other Stories and Dating in Dead World. In 2011, McKinney received the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. For more information go to http://joemckinney.wordpress.com.
World travelling Navy veteran, musician, and former stand-up comic, E.C. McMullen Jr.’s writing has appeared in print, Internet, and cinema.
This short story, Cedo Looked Like People, is the third chapter in the life of his character, Ankar. McMullen has turned the first chapter, the short story, The Night My Monster Died, into an upcoming short film (and proof-of-concept for a possible episodic series or feature film).
When McMullen isn’t writing or making movies, he skulks about on the Internet as Feo Amante of feoamante.com, now entering its 15th Year Online!
Joe Mynhardt is a South African horror writer, publisher, editor and teacher with over fifty short story publications. He has appeared in dozens of publications and collections, among them FOR THE NIGHT IS DARK (with Jasper Bark, Tonia Brown and Scott Nicholson).
Joe is also the owner and operator of Crystal Lake Publishing. He has published and edited PAUL KANE’S SLEEPER(S), DANIEL I. RUSSELL’S TRICKS, MISCHIEF AND MAYHEM and FEAR THE REAPER.
Upcoming collections Joe has edited include KEVIN LUCIA’S THINGS SLIP THROUGH, WILLIAM MEIKLE’S SAMURAI AND OTHER STORIES, GARY MCMAHON’S WHERE YOU LIVE, THE OUTSIDERS (Simon Bestwick, Gary McMahon etc.), CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE (Joe McKinney, Armand Rosamilia etc.) and TALES FROM THE LAKE VOL.1 (Graham Masterton, Tim Curran etc.).
His collection of short stories, LOST IN THE DARK, is available through Amazon.
Read more about Joe and his creations at www.Joemynhardt.com and www.crystallakepub.com or find him on Facebook at “Joe Mynhardt’s Short Stories.”
Joe is also an Associate member of the HWA.
Contact: Lawrence Santoro, larry@larrysantoro.com
In 2001 Lawrence Santoro’s novella “God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him” was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. In 2002, his audio adaptation and production of Gene Wolfe’s “The Tree Is My Hat,” was also Stoker nominated.
In 2003, his Stoker-recommended “Catching” received Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow’s “Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror” anthology. In 2004, “So Many Tiny Mouths,” was cited in that anthology’s 18th edition. In the 20th, his novella, “At Angels Sixteen,” from the anthology A DARK AND DEADLY VALLEY, was similarly honored.
Larry’s first novel, “Just North of Nowhere,” was published in 2007. His collection, DRINK FOR THE THIRST TO COME, was published in December, 2011.
Larry also hosts the weekly horror podcast, “Tales to Terrify” (http://talestoterrify.com/), a sister show to the Hugo Award-winning StarShipSofa.
He lives in Chicago and is working on a linked collection that spins off from his steampunk novella, “Lord Dickens’s Declaration.”
Stop by his blog: http://blufftoninthedriftless.blogspot.com/.
Mark Sheldon is the author of the twelve-part book series, The Noricin Chronicles. Mr. Sheldon lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Betsy.
Link to The Steven Noricin School for the New Race(Omnibus edition of books 1-4 of The Noricin Chronicles): http://noricin.webs.com/wheretobuy-omnibus1.html
Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Cursed, Vacation, and Attic Clowns. His shorter tales have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications, the likes of Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, Withersin, and Shroud Magazine.
Jeremy enjoys living in Southern California in a moderately haunted Victorian farmhouse called Rose Cottage. He lives there with a couple of pygmy tigers and a legion of yard gnomes. The gnomes like him. The clowns living in his attic--not so much. You can learn more about Jeremy at jeremycshipp.com.
Sam Stone is the award-winning author of The Vampire Gene Series. Her latest works include a horror novella The Darkness Within (AudioGo), two Steampunk short novels Zombies At Tiffany’s, Kat On A Hot Tin Airship (Telos Publishing) and a Doctor Who spin off screenplay for White Witch of Devil’s End (Reeltime Pictures).
A prolific and eclectic genre writer, Sam’s short fiction has appeared in many collections and anthologies as well as her own collection Zombies in New York and Other Bloody Jottings. She is currently working on the second book of a post apocalyptic trilogy, a modern day crime novel and a Victorian supernatural thriller.
Sam lives in North Wales in a vampire lair under Rhuddlan Castle with her partner David, her daughter Linzi and a renfield called Frazer.
Jeff Strand doesn’t know why dismemberment is such a major recurring theme in his fiction. You can find some sort of dismemberment in almost all of his books, but he wishes to state for the record that he is actively anti-dismemberment in real life. His novels include WOLF HUNT, A BAD DAY FOR VOODOO, and DWELLER, and you can visit his Gleefully Macabre website at www.JeffStrand.com.
Richard Thomas was the winner of the 2009 “Enter the World of Filaria” contest at ChiZine. He has published over sixty stories online and in print, including the Shivers VI anthology (Cemetery Dance) with Stephen King and Peter Straub, the Warmed and Bound anthology (Velvet Press),Speedloader (Snubnose Press), Murky Depths, Weird Fiction Review, Gargoyle, PANK, Pear Noir!, Word Riot, 3:AM Magazine, and Opium. His debut novel Transubstantiate was released in 2010, and his short story collection, Herniated Roots, in 2012. In his spare time he writes for The Nervous Breakdown and Lit Reactor. He is represented by Paula Munier at the Talcott Notch Literary Agency.
Website: http://whatdoesnotkillme.com
Ross Warren is the editor of the 2011 anthology Dark Minds and the co-editor, with Anthony Watson, of the 2012 anthology Darker Minds. Alongside Anthony he runs Dark Minds Press. Ross’ most recent story, ‘The Day of the Trifles’ was a finalist in the 2012 South Wales Short Story Competition and can be found in the anthology The Countess and the Mole Man from Candy Jar Books. Ross lives in Cheltenham, England with his wife Katarzyna, son Joseph and rather more books than he knows what to do with.
Robert S. Wilson is the author of SHINING IN CRIMSON and FADING IN DARKNESS, books one and two of his dystopian vampire series: EMPIRE OF BLOOD. He is a Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor of HORROR FOR GOOD: A CHARITABLE ANTHOLOGY and lives in Middle Tennessee with his wife and two kids. His short stories have appeared in/will appear in [NAMELESS] MAGAZINE from Cycatrix Press, HORROR D’OEUVRES from Dark Fuse, A QUICK BITE OF FLESH: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ZOMBIE FLASH FICTION from Hazardous Press, EVIL JESTER PRESENTS COMICS, TALES TO TERRIFY, THE BEST OF THE HORROR SOCIETY 2013, BLEED from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, and his cyberpunk/horror novella EXIT REALITY was published in early 2013 by Blood Bound Books.
Marty Young (www.martyyoung.com) is a Bram Stoker nominated and Australian Shadows award winning editor, writer, and sometimes ghost hunter. He was the founding President of the Australian Horror Writers Association from 2005-2010, and one of the creative minds behind the internationally acclaimed Midnight Echo magazine, for which he also served as Executive Editor until mid-2013.
Marty’s first novel, 809 Jacob Street, will be published in late October by Black Beacon Books. His short horror fiction has been nominated for both the Australian Shadows and Ditmar awards, reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror (‘the best of 2008’), and repeatedly included in year’s best recommended reading lists. Marty’s essays on horror literature have been published in journals and university textbooks in Australia and India, and he is also co-editor of the award winning Macabre; a Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears, a landmark anthology showcasing the best Australian horror stories from 1836 to the present.