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S.L. Dixon
S.L. Dixon is a Canadian author and former print-journalist residing in Northern British Columbia. He has written four novels and five collections of stories, as well as several titles in numerous magazines. The bulk of his work falls into the horror field, but occasionally steps outside the genre to write science-fiction and humor. He can ice skate, but cannot swim, he cannot eat mushrooms because of how they feel in his mouth, once purchased petrified dinosaur feces on eBay for $10 and in the eleventh grade was arrested at a school dance wearing only a bathrobe (crime and attire unrelated).
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Uncle Don
Uncle Don spends his days collecting mason jars and his nights reminiscing about his glory days as a former Illinois State Fair Mason Jar Stacking Contest semi-finalist.
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James Ebersole
James Ebersole’s stories and poems have appeared in publications such as The Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase, Richmond Macabre, and Explorers: Beyond the Horizon. He is currently working on a Creative Writing MA in Edinburgh.
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Ken Goldman
Ken Goldman, former Philadelphia teacher of English and Film Studies, is an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association. He has homes on the Main Line in Pennsylvania and at the Jersey shore depending upon his mood and the track of the sun. His stories have appeared in over 730 independent press publications in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia with over twenty due for publication in 2015. Since 1993 Ken’s tales have received seven honorable mentions in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. He has written five books: his anthologies of short stories, You Had Me At Arrgh!! Five Uneasy Pieces by Ken Goldman (Sam’s Dot Publishers); Donny Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (A/A Productions), and Star-Crossed (Vampires 2 Publishers); and a novella, Desiree, (Damnation books). His novel, Of A Feather, was published in January 2014 by the UK’s Horrific Tales Publishers. Ken would be famous except for the fact nobody seems to know who he is. However, he looks forward to the day when he and Stephen King are called to the dais and someone asks “Who is that guy standing next to Ken Goldman?”
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John Goodrich
John Goodrich dreams of a time without bullies, without intolerance, without fear of the other.
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Scott R. Jones
Scott R Jones, author of Soft From All The Blood and The Ecdysiasts, as well as R’lyeh Sutra (as skawt chonzz). Look for my non-fiction auto-ethnographical book When The Stars Are Right: Towards An Authentic R’lyehian Spirituality in 2014
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K.H. Koehler
K. H. Koehler is the author of various novels and novellas in the genres of horror, SF, dark fantasy, steampunk and young adult. She is the owner of K.H. Koehler Books, and her books are widely available at all major online distributors. Her covers have appeared on numerous books in many different genres, and her short work has been featured on Horror World, Literary Mayhem, and in the Bram Stoker Award-winning anthology Demons, edited by John Skipp. She lives in the beautiful wilds of Northeast Pennsylvania with two very large and opinionated Rottweilers. Visit her website at http://khkoehlerbooks.wordpress.com
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Patrick Lacey
Patrick Lacey is an Editorial Assistant in the healthcare industry. When he’s not reading about blood clots and infectious diseases, he writes about things that make the general public uncomfortable. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, his Pomeranian, and his muse, who he’s pretty sure is trying to kill him. Follow him on Twitter (@patlacey).
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Richard Leavesley
Richard Leavesley was born, raised and lives in central England. He’s been writing poetry and short fiction for small press magazines for over twenty years. He’s currently working an a uniquely sarcastic children’s fantasy novel about monsters that live in the dark recesses your bedroom...
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Jodi Lee
Jodi Lee has lived her entire life on the Canadian Prairies, which she credits for her over-active imagination. Owning a possessed mirror which takes her through to a strange and sometimes horrifying town (New Bedlam), and finding spaces between the walls can lead her to even darker places where shadows sleep and Others await, keeps her busy. Well, that and running a tiny publishing house (Belfire Press), freelancing, and participating in almost every wrimo challenge known to man...
She is the author of the Creating New Pagan Family Traditions chapbook series, as well as a collection of horror fiction, Into a Long Ago Future, and a dark urban fantasy serial, Galleys Between. All are available on Amazon. For more information, visit her website http://www.jodilee.ca/
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Kerry G.S. Lipp
Kerry teaches English at a community college by evening and writes horrible things by night. He hates the sun. His parents started reading his stories and now he’s out of the will. Kerry’s work appears in several anthologies including DOA2 from Blood Bound Books and Attack of the B-Movie Monsters from Grinning Skull Press. His story “Smoke“ pioneered The Wicked Library podcast’s explicit content warning. Currently, he’s shopping a bizarro novella and editing his first novel. KGSL blogs at http://www.newworldhorror.com/
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Alan Loewen
Born in 1954, Alan Loewen is the product of a long line of German Mennonite farmers on his father’s side and Episcopalian whalers and fishermen on his mother’s side. His writing comes from his experience as a factory worker, inner-city security guard, park ranger, youth worker, radio personality, stage actor, stage magician, an ordained member of the clergy, computer salesman, counselor for mood disorders, and a host of other vocations. Loewen presently lives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Married and with three sons, he shares his home with a Sheltie, three cats, and a sun conure lovingly dubbed “The Death Chicken.“
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H.P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), one of the few authors to have an entire sub-genre named after him, While “a product of his time” may be used to explain some of the more unsavory traits prominent in several of his stories, one would hope his true literary heirs would have evolved beyond such things and not go spewing hate, rampant racism, misogyny, homophobia and general shitty-person-ness all over the internet.
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John McIlveen
John M. McIlveen, author of Jerks And Other Tales From A Perfect Man, has numerous stories, poems, and articles published in several anthologies, magazines, and other such places, including 21st Century Dead, The Monster’s Corner, Epitaphs, From the Borderlands, and Buzzymag.com, just to name a few. His first novel, Hannahwhere (paranormal suspense), is finished and en route to a kind and loving home. If luck prevails, Hannahwhere will get huge bids on the paperback floor and generate a brutal movie option battle between Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro. John is well into his second and third novels, Going North and Corruption, both of which will make Oprah swoon. John is a father to five lovely daughters, owns a shotgun, and has nerves of steel (which also defines the colour of his hair). He’s an Electrical and Mechanical Designer, and the O&M/MEP Liaison at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, and lives in Marlborough, MA with a beautiful Italian goddess. He has an affinity for black licorice, whoopie pies, and good tequila.
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Edward Martin III
Edward’s second book — Through the Night — was just published and can be found on Amazon. He’s an award-winning screenwriter and an author who constantly experiments what his work. His second feature film — Flesh of my Flesh — should be out by the time this is published. Find him online at HellbenderMedia.com
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David Neilsen
David Neilsen is the author of a number of slightly-disturbing works of fiction age-appropriate for people age-appropriate to be slightly-disturbed. Based in Sleepy Hollow, NY, when not writing about folks summoning forth eldritch demons with a penchant for human vivisection, David sends audiences into the depths of madness through his storytellin
g, particularly with his one-man show, H.P. Lovecraft’s Call of Cthulhu. Visit David online at: http://neilsenparty.wordpress.com/
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J.M. Northwood
Between the slithering horror of his birth, and the eventual inevitability of his death, J.M. has split his time between interpretive dance, the culinary arts, and avoiding acting like an adult. Writing under the pseudonyms of Captain Fabulous, Hardyn Thicke, and Spanky Taillift: the Lascivious Hampster of South Chutney, his poetry and prose have enthralled thousands of his invisible friends.
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Mark Orr
Mark Orr is a highly educated (some say over-educated) writing machine who could use an infusion of spare parts now and again. He labors in the intellectual armpit of all the known universes that is Middle Tennessee, and frequently wishes he were some place else. Belize would be nice, or Prague. London, if it weren’t so expensive. Le sigh.
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Lorenzo Passion
Lorenzo Passion hails from parts unknown. He has no memory of his life before he met a traumatized Labrador retriever who dictated to him a tale of woe.
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Michael Penkas
Michael Penkas lives in Chicago and has had over twenty stories published. His work has appeared in Shock Totem, DarkFuse and Dark Moon Digest. His first novel, Mistress Bunny and the Cancelled Client, was published in 2014. A complete list of his published work can be found at www.michaelpenkas.com.
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Mary Pletsch
Mary Pletsch is a glider pilot, toy collector and graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada. She is also a camping enthusiast who likes to see what she can stir up out of deep forests and dark lakes. She has published short stories in a variety of genres including science fiction, fantasy and horror. She grew up in Ontario, but now lives in New Brunswick with Dylan Blacquiere and their four cats. Visit her online at www.fictorians.com.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) invented detective fiction, revolutionized the science fiction genre and wrote the only poem popular enough to have an NFL team named after it. A UVA dropout who was expelled from West Point, Poe went on to become the first internationally influential American author, termed by Alfred, Lord Tennyson “the most Original American Genius.” Known in his time as a literary critic, poet, and mystery writer; Poe is now justifiably renowned for developing the modern tale of psychological terror with short stories like “Berenice” (which almost got him fired) and “The Tell-Tale Heart” (which was rejected by the first magazine to which he submitted it). Now Poe’s face adorns bobble heads, action figures, and the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. He even appeared on an episode of the animated series South Park and the Batman comic series Batman Nevermore. He has been portrayed on film by the likes of Joseph Cotton, Klaus Kinski and John Cusack.
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Doug Rinaldi
Doug was born and raised in the bowels of Connecticut. He spent most of his time exploring the woods behind Washington Park, envisioning otherworldly scenarios that would engulf him and ignite his budding imagination. Art was his life. Throughout his adolescence, he had written and drawn, creating little tales of horror about the devious lunch ladies at school and the like. In 1995, Doug graduated college and received his degree in Computer Animation and Special Effects for stage and screen. However, writing dark fiction had always been his bigger passion. At the turn of the millennium, he relocated to Boston, Massachusetts where he has been continuing to hone his writing and artistic skills ever since.
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Brian M. Sammons
Brian M. Sammons has been writing reviews on all things horror for more years than he’ll care to admit. Wanting to give other critics the chance to ravage his work for a change, he has penned a smattering of stories that have appeared in such books as Arkham Tales, Horrors Beyond, Monstrous, Dead but Dreaming 2, Horror for the Holidays, Mountains of Madness, Deepest, Darkest Eden and others. He has edited the anthologies Undead & Unbound, Eldritch Chrome, Edge of Sundown, Steampunk Cthulhu, Dark Rites of Cthulhu, Atomic Age Cthulhu, and World War Cthulhu. He is also the managing editor of Dark Regions Press’ new Weird Fiction line. For more about Brian you can check out his infrequently updated webpage here: http://brian_sammons.webs.com/ and follow him on Twitter @BrianMSammons.
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William Andre Sanders
William Andre Sanders resides in the town of Narrows, VA, with his wife and two children. He hasn’t published much poetry so far in 2014, but does have several poems scheduled for release before year’s end. Andre is currently concentrating on finishing the initial draft of his second novel, while his first novel is making rounds in hope of finding a publisher willing to gamble on his throw it all out on the table approach. While he is nearly halfway finished with the second novel draft, he does intend to induce fear every once in a while by returning to some of the magazines that gave him his start and deliver fresh work that he has toned into a horrifying craft. Feel free to contact him via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/williamandresanders. Or, simply shoot him an email: [email protected].
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Claire Smith
Claire Smith has previously had her poem, ‘Burial Ground’, published by Gloucestershire Archaeology Society in their journal Glevensis (2013); and the poem ‘Sea Princess’ included in S. T. Joshi’s journal Spectral Realms (summer 2014). She has also had two short stories published in anthologies, by Inkermen Press, ‘Cells’ in Loss and ‘The Scenery’ in Cold Turkey (both 2009). She worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Gloucestershire (2004-2011); and has an MA in English from The Open University (2013). She currently lives in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK.
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Peter Sutton
Pete Sutton has a not so secret lair in the wilds of Fishponds, Bristol and dreams up stories, many of which are about magpies. He’s had stuff published, online and in book form, and currently has a pile of words that one day may possibly be a novel. He wrote all about Fishponds for the Naked Guide to Bristol and has made more money from non-fiction than he has from fiction and wonders if that means the gods of publishing are trying to tell him something. You can find him all over social media or worrying about events he’s helped organise at the Bristol Festival of Literature. On Twitter he’s @suttope and his Bristol Book Blog is here: http://brsbkblog.blogspot.co.uk/ He’s contributing editor of Far Horizons e-magazine which can be found here:http://info-far-horizons.wix.com/far-horizons-emag
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D.J. Tyrer
DJ Tyrer is the person behind Atlantean Publishing and has most recently been published in Amok! (April Moon Books), In Creeps The Night (J.A.Mes Press), State of Horror: Illinois (Charon Coin Press), Steampunk Cthulhu (Chaosium), Tales of the Dark Arts (Hazardous Press) and Cosmic Horror (Dark Hall Press), as well as in Sorcery & Sanctity: A Homage to Arthur Machen (Hieroglyphics Press), All Hallow’s Evil and Undead of Winter (both Mystery & Horror LLC) and Fossil Lake (Sabledrake Enterprises), and in addition, has a novella available on the Kindle, The Yellow House (Dynatox Ministries).
DJ Tyrer’s website is at http://djtyrer.blogspot.co.uk/
The Atlantean Publishing website is at http://atlanteanpublishing.blogspot.co.uk/
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Deborah Walker
Deborah Walker grew up in the most English town in the country, but she soon high-tailed it down to London, where she now lives with her partner, Chris, and her two young children. Find Deborah in the British Museum trawling the past for future inspiration or on her blog: http://deborahwalkersbibliography.blogspot.com/
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