by Jeff Gelb
STEPHEN GRESHAM
Gresham, an Alabama resident, has had 12 novels published since 1982. Number 13, scheduled for publication in 1994, is titled Primal Instinct. He has also written 18 published short stories and recently completed a young adult horror novel.
RICK HAUTALA
Maine resident Hautala is the author of 10 horror novels including Ghost Light, The Mountain King, Dark Silence, and the upcoming The Pack and Twilight Time. His short fiction has appeared in Predators, After the Darkness, Narrow Houses, Ultimate Zombie, and Shock Rock 2.
JACK KETCHUM
Ketchum’s novels include Off Season, often credited as the first splatterpunk novel, as well as Hide and Seek, Cover, She Wakes, The Girl Next Door, Offspring, and Road Kill. Short fiction credits include Vampire Detectives, Stalkers III, and Book of the Dead III. Ketchum lives in New York.
PAUL KUPPERBERG
Connecticut’s Kupperberg is an eighteen-year veteran writer in the comic book field, with over 600 stories to his credit, including work on Superman and Batman. He is the author of the novels Crime Campaign and Murdermoon, and has had short stories published in the anthologies Further Adventures of Batman Vol. 3, and Larger Than Life. He is an editor at DC Comics.
GRAHAM MASTERTON
England’s Masterton is hard at work on several new horror novels, including Burial, The Sleepless, and Flesh & Blood. He has had over SO short horror stories published, including the award-wining “Absence of Beast.”
TH. METZGER
New York’s Metzger is the author of Big Gurl, Shock Totem, This Is Your Final Warning, and Drowning In Fire. His work has also appeared in anthologies including Shock Rock 2 and Bizarre Obsession.
REX MILLER
Missouri’s Miller is the creator of the enormously popular Chaingang character from Slob, Savant, and other books in the series, and the writer of Profane Men and others. His short fiction career began in Hot Blood with prolific work following in Thrillers, Freak Show, and others. He has just completed co-scripting a comics mini-series with novelist Andrew Vachss.
THOMAS F. MONTELEONE
Monteleone won the 1993 Bram Stoker Award for Novel for The Blood of the Lamb. His next novel will be either The Final Quartet or Nights of Broken Glass in late ‘94. To date, he has edited four annual Borderlands anthologies, and has numerous short fiction credits including Peter Straub’s Ghost Stories, Love in Vein and Thrillers. The Maryland resident has a regular column in Cemetery Dance magazine.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
The incredibly prolific Oates is the author of 27 novels, 17 collections of short stories, seven books of poetry, five volumes of essays, 15 plays and more than two dozen works published by small, independent presses. She is also the author of four suspense novels under the pseudonym of Rosamond Smith. The multi-award-winning writer lives in New Jersey.
ELSA RUTHERFORD
Rutherford is a native Alabamian. A former newspaper columnist, she sold her first novel, The Water and the Blood, in 1987. Her short fiction has been published in numerous European countries as well as the U.S. She teaches fiction writing at a university.
JOHN SHIRLEY
California’s Shirley is the author of more than 17 books under his own name and a dozen under pseudonyms. His best-known books include City Come A-Walkin, Heatseeker, Cellars, Wetbones and The Brigade. He is also a successful songwriter who fronts his own band, The Panther Moderns.
TIA TRAVIS
Travis’s latest work appears in Chills, Shock Rock 2, and Young Blood. She lives on the Canadian prairies, “where the highways are straight and visibility is excellent in all directions.”
SCOTT H. URBAN
A frequent contributor to the dark fantasy small press, Urban’s work has appeared in Doppelganger, Thin Ice and others. The North Carolina writer’s short fiction credits include Shock Rock 2 and The Beast Within. He is developing comic book scripts and screenplays.
EDO VAN BELKOM
Ontario’s van Belkom has sold over 40 short stories to such books as Year’s Best Horror Stories, Hot Blood 4, Shock Rock 2, Deathport, and Northern Frights, along with numerous magazines.
GRAHAM WATKINS
North Carolina’s Watkins is the author of Dark Winds, The Fire Within, and Kaleidoscope Eyes, as well as numerous pieces of short fiction in Hottest Blood, Shock Rock 2 and other leading anthologies.
