Over the years ROBERT HOOD—once referred to as “Aussie horror’s wicked godfather”—has published many short stories in the genres of Horror, SF, Fantasy, Crime and other generally weird mutations of these, appearing in Australian and overseas magazines and anthologies, as well as in several personal collections. He has also written novels, including the award-winning epic fantasy Fragments of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead (Wildside Press, 2013). His most recent book is Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories (IFWG Publishing Australia, 2015), a kaiju-sized tome that won the Australian Shadows Award for Best Collection. Some people believe he long ago disappeared into some dark, chthonian dimension and has been replaced by a number of demonic alter egos. If this is true, only time will tell. His websites can be accessed from www.roberthood.net
LEE MURRAY is a nine-time winner of New Zealand’s prestigious Sir Julius Vogel Award for science fiction, fantasy and horror. Her titles include the bestselling military thriller Into the Mist and supernatural crime-noir Hounds of the Underworld (co-authored with Dan Rabarts). She is proud to have co-edited eight anthologies, one of which, Baby Teeth, won her an Australian Shadows Award in 2014. She lives with her family in the Land of the Long White Cloud.
JASON NAHRUNG is a Ballarat-based writer, editor and journalist. He has four novels and more than twenty short stories to his credit, all on the dark side of speculative fiction. He is undertaking a creative writing PhD investigating life in a climate-changed near-future Brisbane. He lurks online at www.jasonnahrung.com.au
BILL CONGREVE is an award-winning writer, editor and independent publisher (MirrorDanse books). His stories have appeared in a number of countries in publications such as Faerie Reel, Tenebres, Event Horizon, Terror Australis, Aurealis, Borderlands, Bloodsongs, Intimate Armageddons, Monstres! and The Year’s Best Australasian Fantasy & Horror. His recent collection of vampire stories is Epiphanies of Blood. His most recent collection is Souls Along the Meridian (2010). He won the Peter McNamara Achievement Award in 2012 and has acted as judge for the Aurealis Awards on nine occasions. He works as a technical writer and editor in the emergency services sector.
J. (JOHANNES AKA JAN) SCHERPENHUIZEN is a writer, artist, editor and publisher. His comics, illustrations and prose pieces have appeared in Australia and the United States. Jan has collaborated with other talents but also acted as both writer and illustrator on projects, ranging from the picture book series The Wild and Crazy Dinosaurs to the gritty horror graphic novel The Time of The Wolves. As an editor and manuscript appraiser he discovered Nancy Kunze, Christopher Ride, Anthony O’Neill, and the late Martin Chimes, all of whom have credited him with playing a significant role in their becoming professional authors. Jan recently contributed several stunning, full-page black and white illustrations and a short story to the well-received Sherlock Holmes: The Australian Casebook. You can find out more about Jan’s activities as agent, manuscript assessor, writing mentor, etc. at www.janscreactive.com and his art can be viewed at www.jscherpenhuizenillustrator.com
SILVIA BROWN describes herself as a creative writer with a dark soul. She is a volunteer for the Australasian Horror Writers Association and TEDx Melbourne. Silvia writes dark fiction, film reviews and everything else in between. You can check out her website http://silviabrown.me for more details or join her on Twitter @SilvBrownWriter
T. S. P. SWEENEY is a dashingly roguish public servant by day and a roguishly dashing writer of fantasy, science fiction, and horror by night. He is the author of numerous published short stories, ranging from a Sherlock Holmes mystery set in the Australian bush through to a story in which a demon dismembers Nazis during the fall of Berlin. He dwells within the dank confines of his Sydney, Australia abode with his gorgeous and entirely-too-tolerant and supportive wife Sam and their collective menagerie. Information on his published and upcoming works can be found on his blog at www.tspsweeney.com. He can also be reached on Twitter @TSPSweeney
GEOFF BROWN is an award-winning Australian writer and Australian Shadows Award finalist-editor raised in Melbourne’s gritty Western Suburbs. He writes fiction across various genres, and is the author of many published short stories, a novella, and a memoir. He has had numerous articles published in newspapers, both regional and metropolitan. He is the past president of the Australian Horror Writers Association (2011-2013), as well as the past director of the Australian Shadows Awards. He owns Cohesion Press, an award-winning Australian publishing house focused on fast-paced military horror anthologies, and currently works with Tim Miller, director of Deadpool and the upcoming Terminator movie, as a senior story consultant. He is also the owner of Asylum Ghost Tours in Beechworth, and he’s sometimes not a big fan of people.
DAVID KURARIA was born on the island of Ranongga in the Solomon Islands. He attended Kingsland Intermediate School in Auckland, New Zealand, before reuniting with his family in the Solomons’ capital, Honiara. “The Seamounts of Vaalua Tuva” is David’s first published story and is one of a trilogy of tales describing a malign, marine-dwelling race named Kõpura. Kuraria also wishes it be known he has a pet coconut crab named Ping Pong, and that he is currently employed in habitat protection by the Honiara Department of Fisheries.
There are a number of sides to DAVE HEINRICH. By day, he is currently working as an art director and internationally recognised medical illustrator at a university hospital, following extensive experience in graphic design, web development, advertising, game design and webcam animation. But he’s probably best known as a comic book artist and cartoonist. His credits include Phantom: Ghost Who Walks, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Conan The Barbarian, Elvira and Mad. In recent years Dave has also enjoyed producing art for car-shows and editing Torqueback magazine, as well as revisiting his indy/underground comic-book roots as a collaborator on The Universe Gun, Weird Wild West, Savage Bitch, Weird Sex Fantasy and Decay.
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