New Tales of the Old Ones

by Derwin, Theresa

  Michael Reyes is a 27-year-old playwright and Iraq War veteran from Brooklyn, New York. His plays have been reviewed in The New York Times, The L.A. Times and Amsterdam Press. “The Darkness at Table Rock Road” is his first horror story. He is currently working on a short story collection and a full-length urban horror play.

  P N Roberts is the pen-name of Neil Roberts, a self-confessed geek who was born and still resides in the county of Cornwall in the South West of England. Having loved books from a precociously early age he nonetheless came to writing late in life, but has already had factual articles, fiction and even poetry published around the world. No-one is more surprised at this than Neil. He remains unmarried and has a history devoid of the interesting jobs and exotic pets that every other author seems to have acquired. Follow him on Twitter at @WriterRoberts.

  Jody Neil Ruth has written for magazine and websites for over a decade, and has now turned his attention to books and short stories. “The Fear on Kingham Mountain” is his first published short story, with many more in the works, as well as his novel The Dead Outside. You can find him on jodyneilruth.com or on his own radio show on vectisradio.co.uk.

  A madman fuelled by terror and cats, Sean M Thompson lives a quiet life, with a world of darkness hidden away inside his fevered mind. The morbid deviant was raised in central Massachusetts, surrounded by woods and suburbanites, a truly terrifying experience. You can find him on the Internet at spookySean.com and on various social networking sites, procrastinating as per usual.

  A Stuart Williams is an English writer, journalist, photographer and historian living in the region of England which inspired J. R. R. Tolkien’s dark land of Mordor - the ‘Black Country’. Born in Bloxwich, Staffordshire at the end of the 1950s and fascinated by science fiction, sword and sorcery, weird pulp, alternate history and latterly steampunk since the 1960s, he grew up reading British reprints of classic US pulps and Golden Age science fiction. Previously published in factual magazines (computing, astronomical, photographic, historical) and newspapers, an online computer journalist and the author of several local history books, Stuart initially trained as a commercial photographer before working in newspaper publishing, finally becoming a professional local historian and journalist. He is now working on another career in writing, as a SF, ‘new pulp’ and steampunk author, paying his dues as a short story writer. Currently working on a number of projects, “Minor Planet Mambo” , set in an alternate future Solar System some two centuries hence, was his first science fiction story for Pro Se Productions in the USA , who are also aiming to publish his story collection Rings Around the Sun in 2016. Numbering Arthur C. Clarke, E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells and Jules Verne amongst his influences, Stuart believes that “What if?” is the most amazing question of all.

  Born in Detroit MI (USA), Martin R Zdziemborsky’s first interests were dinosaurs, dragons and Godzilla. Then, it was TV shows like Creature Feature that exposed him to Hammer horror, classic Universal horror films and B-Horror films. Later, Ray Harryhausen’s fantasy films, comics like Swamp Thing, and magazines like Famous Monsters only fueled an obsession with monsters and demons. His family later relocated to the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in the 6th grade, he had an US Air Force investigated UFO sighting. As a teen, his interest in Sci-Fi, world mythology and the supernatural led to authors like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Aleister Crowley, and H. P. Lovecraft. In the 1990’s, he fronted an occult metal band Hemagoblyn and celebrated Halloween with hundreds of wiccan/witches in Salem, MA. In 2002, he graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi, with a triple Bachelors of Arts in Film/History/Theater. A trained actor, he appeared in several plays, including The Crucible, as well as the serial killer in the indie horror film Cremains (2001). He also directed/produced/wrote the horror short, It’s Not Midnight (2002), staring B-Horror Scream Queen Dawn DuVurger, soon to be resurrected for release on DVD. He lived in Taiwan for ten years, where he taught English at Sesame Street schools and worked as an actor/cartoonist/editor for A+ English Magazine and their radio/TV show MoMo Kids. After traveling through South Asia and a pilgrimage to Japan and Godzilla’s statue in downtown Tokyo, he’s returned to the states to focus on writing, painting and producing his own monster movies, as well as completing a Master’s Degree in History.

  Paul Simpson has been an editor of fiction and non-fiction for the past two decades, as well as the author of over two dozen non-fiction works, including a highly regarded study of the books of Stephen King.