Blood and Blasphemy
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Trevor Newton works as a part-time farmhand, residing in a rural area outside of Raleigh, North Carolina. When he isn’t up to his shoulders in complex grease or helping corral cows for auction, he enjoys consuming horror through both literature and film. In addition, he credits his interest in writing from a steady diet of Bentley Little, Richard Laymon and Edward Lee. He is working on multiple short stories and plans to have a fully polished novel completed by late 2020.
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Drew Nicks has always been fascinated by horror. Continued viewings of Jaws and Aliens as a youth skewed his young mind. His work has been featured in Gehenna and Hinnom Books, Oscillate Wildly Press, Dark Corner Books, Road Maps and Life Rafts, Pulp Dreadfuls, The Lovecraft Lunatic Asylum and Vaughan Street Doubles. He resides in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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C. C. Parker lives on the fringes of the Cascadian/Seattle area where he continues to toil in the physical media underground while trying to stay sane. A metal obsessed, horror film, occult enthusiast who spends the bulk of his free time escaping into pockets of unreality (interior or peripheral) to stave off any lingering threat of apathy or contentment, deciding long ago these were unrealistic goals in an increasingly hostile world. A writer of dark/experimental prose/poetry for the past thirty years, having published much in small press horror mags during the mid-to-late 90s and 2000s: Chimeraworld, Black Ink Horror, Bare Bone, etc. Most recently, he’s appeared in Plinth, Massacre Magazine and Breaking Bizarro (forthcoming). Favoring a dense, hermetic style with a heavily symbolist bent. Daring to push the boundaries of modern prose into something more akin to the decadent stylings of his forebears. C. C. Parker is a writer of both medieval & futuristic romances: a man out-of-time, yet very much a product of it.
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Wolfgang Potterhouse is a prematurely gray, occasional vegetarian, high school teaching, non-native Texan. He has four children and a beautiful wife, all of whom think he is a pretty okay dude. He is a Cancer and is not afraid to tear up when someone gets voted off Master Chef. He has many stories published in an accordion file in his den; this is his fourth story to get legitimately published.
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J.L. Shioshita is a film school dropout and grunge musician currently residing in the Denver area where he works an office by day and writes by night. He’s addicted to horror movies, coffee, his cats and his wife. He’s also addicted to obsessively singing made up songs in an effort to drive those around him slowly insane. It appears to be working.
You can visit him at https://www.goodreads.com/UberProductions
Check out his horror themed blog at http://uberproductions.tumblr.com/
And if you’re into bad movies, check out @bigboxmovieclub on Instagram, which also has links to the awesome podcast he takes part in.
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J.J. Smith is a writer living in the Washington, D.C. area. He’s a veteran of HellBound Books with some of his stories published in the anthologies, The Big Book of Bootleg Horror Volumes I and IV and Depraved Desires Volume I. His stories have also been published in the anthologies, Behind Glass Eyes: A Haunted Doll Anthology; Dark Magic: Witches, Hackers & Robots; Halloween Shrieks; and Tales from the Witch’s Cauldron, and in Horror Bites Magazine. J.J. has been a hard-news reporter for international news services and newspapers. After 16 years of reporting on the U.S. government, J.J. now spends his daylight hours writing summaries of House and Senate hearings.
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Henry Snider has, for over two decades, dedicated his time to helping others tighten their writing through critique groups, classes, lectures, prison prose programs, and high school fiction contests. He co-founded Fiction Foundry (est. 2012) and the award-winning Colorado Springs Fiction Writers Group (1996-2013). Thirteen years to the month from founding the CSFWG, he retired from the presidency. After a much-needed vacation, he returned to the literary world. While still reserving enough time to pursue his own fiction aspirations, he continues to be active in the writing community through classes, editing services, and advice. Henry lives in Colorado with his wife, fellow author and editor Hollie Snider, son–poet Josh Snider and numerous neurotic animals, including, of course, Fizzgig, the token black cat.
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J.B. Toner studied Literature at Thomas More College and holds a black belt in Ohana Kilohana Kenpo-Jujitsu. He has held many occupations, from altar boy to homeless person, but has always aspired to be a writer. His first novel, Whisper Music, came out in 2019, and he hopes to release many more in the centuries to come.
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Shawn Wood graduated from Central Connecticut State University with a BA in Anthropology. For the past couple years, he has been pursuing a Masters in English/Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University. He has been writing short fiction, including graphic novels, in multiple genres for the past several years. He is the co-creator and writer of two comic book series: Fragments and The Chronicles of Stone. He currently lives in Western Maine.
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Sheldon Woodbury is an award-winning writer (screenplays, plays, books, short stories, and poems). His book, Cool Million, is considered the essential guide to writing high concept movies. His short stories and poems have appeared in many horror anthologies and magazines. His novel, The World on Fire, was published September, 2014 by JWK Fiction. His poem, The Midnight Circus, was selected by Ellen Datlow as an honorable mention for Best Horror 2017.