by Paul Finch
KURT FAWVER is a writer of horror, dark fantasy and weird fiction. He has published fiction in numerous magazines and anthologies, most recently Weird Tales,The Lovecraft eZine, Xnoybis and Midian Unmade (Tor, 2015). He has released one collection of short stories, Forever, in Pieces (Villipede Publications, 2013), and is working feverishly on a second. Kurt also writes nonfiction and scholarly work, which has been published in various journals and scholarly tomes, including Thinking Horror and the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. You can find Kurt online at kdfawver.blogspot.com or facebook.com/kfawver .
GARY FRY lives in Dracula's Whitby, literally around the corner from where Bram Stoker was staying while thinking about that legendary character. Gary has a PhD in psychology, but his first love is literature. He was the first author in PS Publishing's Showcase series, and none other than Ramsey Campbell has described him as "a master." He is the author of more than 100 published short stories and 15 books, including novels, novellas and collections. His latest are the Lovecraftian novel Conjure House (DarkFuse, 2013), the short story collection Shades of Nothingness (PS Publishing, 2013), the zombie novel Severed, and novellas Menace, Savage and Mutator (DarkFuse, 2014). Gary warmly welcomes all to his web presence: www.gary-fry.com
SEAN LOGAN 's stories have appeared in more than thirty publications, including Black Static, Supernatural Tales, The New Gothic, Eulogies II and Dark Visions. He lives in northern California, where he's doing the final edit on a novel. When he's not reading or writing he enjoys loud music, bad movies and good tequila.
STEPHEN VOLK is creator of the infamous BBC 'Hallowe'en hoax' Ghostwatch and ITV's Afterlife starring Andrew Lincoln and Lesley Sharp. His many screenplays include The Awakening, Ken Russell's Gothic, The Guardian (co-written with director William Friedkin), and, most recently, a three-part adaptation of Phil Rickman's novel Midwinter of the Spirit starring Anna Maxwell Martin as Deliverance Consultant Merrily Watkins. His short stories have been chosen for Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Best British Mysteries, and Best British Horror, he has been a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and he is the author of two collections, Dark Corners and Monsters in the Heart, which won the British Fantasy Award in 2014. His latest novella Leytonstone takes as its subject the childhood of Alfred Hitchcock. Currently he is writing Empty Chairs, a new supernatural TV series, and Extrasensory, a new feature film. www.stephenvolk.net
ROBERT SHEARMAN has written five short story collections, which collectively have won the World Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Edge Hill Readers' Prize and three British Fantasy Awards. He began his career in theatre, as resident dramatist at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter and regular writer for Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. His plays have won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award, the Sophie Winter Memorial Trust Award and the Guinness Award for Ingenuity in association with the Royal National Theatre. His interactive series for BBC Radio Four, The Chain Gang, ran for three seasons and won two Sony Awards. However, he may be best known as a writer for Doctor Who, reintroducing the Daleks for its BAFTA winning first series in an episode nominated for a Hugo Award.
Described as "among the most important writers of contemporary British horror" by Ramsey Campbell, SIMON BESTWICK is the author of the novels Tide Of Souls, The Faceless, the serial novel Black Mountain, and the upcoming Hell's Ditch and Redman's Hill. He's also written many short stories, collected in A Hazy Shade Of Winter, Pictures of the Dark, Let's Drink To The Dead and The Condemned. Having spent most of his life in Manchester, he now lives on the Wirral with his long-suffering girlfriend, the writer Cate Gardner. When not writing, he goes for walks, watches movies, listens to music and does all he can to avoid having to get a proper job again. All contributions towards this worthy cause will be gratefully received.
CLIFF McNISH , acclaimed as 'one of our most talented thriller writers' (The Times), has written numerous award-winning fantasy, SF, horror and supernatural novels for children and young adults. His initial fantasy series, The Doomspell Trilogy, was published in twenty-six languages worldwide. His 2006 ghost story Breathe was voted in May 2013 as one of the top 100 adult and children's novels of all time by the Schools Network of British Librarians.