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John Palisano is the author of Dust of the Dead, Ghost Heart, Nerves, and Starlight Drive: Four Halloween Tales. His first short fiction collection All That Withers celebrates a decade of short story highlights. Night of 1,000 Beasts is coming soon.
He won the Bram Stoker Award© in short fiction in 2016 for “Happy Joe’s Rest Stop.” More short stories have appeared in anthologies from Cemetery Dance, PS Publishing, Independent Legions, DarkFuse, Crystal Lake, Terror Tales, Lovecraft eZine, Horror Library, Bizarro Pulp, Written Backwards, Dark Continents, Big Time Books, McFarland Press, Darkscribe, Dark House, Omnium Gatherum, and more. Non-fiction pieces have appeared in Blumhouse, Fangoria, and Dark Discoveries magazines. He is currently serving as Vice President of the Horror Writers Association.
Say “hi” at: www.johnpalisano.com
Joanna Parypinski is a college English instructor by day and a writer of the dark and strange by night. Her work has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Haunted Nights, HWA Poetry Showcase IV, The Burning Maiden volume 2, Dark Moon Digest, and elsewhere. Living in the shadow of an old church that sits atop a hilly cemetery north of Los Angeles, she plays her cello surrounded by the sounds of screaming neighbor children. Visit her website at www.joannaparypinski.com.
David J. Schow is a multiple-award-winning writer who lives in Los Angeles. The latest of his nine novels is a hardboiled extravaganza called The Big Crush (2017). The newest of his ten short story collections is titled DJStories (2018). He has written extensively for film (The Crow, Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, The Hills Run Red) and television (Masters of Horror, Mob City). One of Fangoria magazine’s most popular columnists, he is also the author of The Outer Limits Companion (revised third edition, 2018) and The Outer Limits at 50 (2014). As editor he has curated both Robert Bloch (The Lost Bloch, three volumes, 1999-2002) and John Farris (Elvisland, 2004) as well as assembling the legendary horror anthology Silver Scream (1988). Other recent nonfiction works include The Art of Drew Struzan (2010). He can be seen on various DVDs as expert witness or documentarian on everything from Creature from the Black Lagoon and Psycho to I, Robot and King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen. Thanks to him, the word “splatterpunk” has been in the Oxford English Dictionary since 2002.
Marge Simon lives in Ocala, FL. She edits a column for the HWA Newsletter, “Blood & Spades: Poets of the Dark Side,” and serves on Board of Trustees. She won the Strange Horizons Readers Choice Award, 2010, the SFPA’s Dwarf Stars Award, 2012, and the Elgin Award for best poetry collection, 2015. She has won the Bram Stoker Award ®, the Rhysling Award and the Grand Master Award from the SF & F Poetry Association, 2015. Marge’s poems and stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, You, Human, Chiral Mad, and Scary Out There, to name a few.
Lucy A. Snyder is a five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning writer. She’s author of a dozen books and about 100 published short stories. Her fiction has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Czech, Spanish, and Japanese editions, and her work has appeared in publications such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, and Best Horror of the Year. She has a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College and is faculty in Seton Hill University’s MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. You can learn more about her at www.lucysnyder.com and you can follow her on Twitter at @LucyASnyder.
Peter Straub is the author of seventeen novels, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. He has written two volumes of poetry and three collections of short fiction, and he edited the Library of America’s edition of H. P. Lovecraft’s Tales and their 2-volume anthology, American Fantastic Tales. He has won many awards. In 2006, he was given the HWA’s Life Achievement Award. In 2008, he was given the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award by Poets & Writers. At the World Fantasy Convention in 2010, he was given the WFC’s Life Achievement Award.
Lucy Taylor is the award-winning author of seven novels, five collections, and over a hundred short stories. Most recently, her work has appeared in her collection Fatal Journeys and in the anthologies Fright Mare (“Dead Messengers”), Into Painfreak (“He Who Whispers the Dead Back to Life”), Peel Back the Skin (“Moth Frenzy”), and at Tor.com (“Sweetlings,” May 4, 2017). Several of her stories can also be found on the short fiction app Great Jones Street.
Upcoming work includes short stories in the anthologies The Five Senses of Horror (“In the Cave of the Delicate Singers”), Edward Bryant Tribute Anthology (“Blessed Be the Bound”), and CEA Greatest Anthology Written (“Fecundity”). A new edition of her Stoker-winning novel The Safety of Unknown Cities, illustrated by Glen Chadbourne and published by The Overlook Connection Press, will be out later this year.
Taylor lives in the high desert outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Tim Waggoner has published close to forty novels and three collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins, and his articles on writing have appeared in numerous publications. He’s won the Bram Stoker Award, been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Scribe Award, his fiction has received numerous honorable mentions in volumes of Best Horror of the Year, and he’s twice had stories selected for inclusion in volumes of Year’s Best Hardcore Horror. He’s also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio.
Anthony Watson has placed short stories in various indie press publications including State of Horror: Louisiana from Charon Coin Press, Sanitarium magazine, and Far Horizons. His most recent publications are the war/horror novella Winter Storm in a six-author collection Darker Battlefields from The Exaggerated Press, and Stitches for Smiles in a new horror magazine Worlds of Strangeness. Forthcoming are appearances in The Black Room Manuscripts volume 3 and Morpheus Tales.
His weird western novella The Company of the Dead made up a double-header with Benedict J. Jones’ Mulligan’s Idol in volume 1 of Dark Frontiers. Work has begun on volume 2.
December 2017 will see the publication of his novel, Witnesses, by Crowded Quarantine Publications.
As well as writing, he runs a horror review blog “Dark Musings” (found at: http://anthony-watson.blogspot.co.uk/).
He lives on the beautiful Northumbrian coast with Judith and their two dogs, a landscape which provides endless inspiration.
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