MP JOHNSON’s short stories have appeared in more than twenty-five underground books and magazines, including Bare Bone and Cthulhu Sex. His debut book, The After-Life Story of Pork Knuckles Malone, was recently released by Bizarro Pulp Press. His second book, Dungeons and Drag Queens, is due soon from Eraserhead Press. He is the creator of the zine Freak Tension, a B-movie extra, and an obsessive music fan currently based in Minneapolis. Learn more at www.freaktension.com.
CHRIS KELSO is an author and illustrator. He is the author of Schadenfreude (Dog Horn Publishing), A Message from the Slave State (Western Legends Press) and Charm/Offensive (Strangehouse Books). Along with Garrett Cook, he is the co-creator of Imperial Youth Review.
MIKE KLEINE was born in December of 1988. He graduated from Grinnell College with a B.A. in French Literature. He currently lives somwhere in the Midwest. His first novel, Mastodon Farm, was published by Atlatl Press in 2012.
VIOLET LEVOIT is the author of I Am Genghis Cum, Hotel Butterfly, and many other works of fiction. She lives in Philadelphia.
THOMAS LIGOTTI is a contemporary horror author and reclusive literary cult figure. His books include Teatro Grottesco, My Work Is Not Yet Done, and The Conspiracy Against the Human Race.
SIMON LOGAN is the author of the short story collections I-O, Rohypnol Brides, and Nothing is Inflammable as well as the novel Pretty Little Things to Fill Up the Void. He is also the author of the industrial crime thriller Katja From The Punk Band which was selected as one of the top 10 crime books of 2010 by Spinetingler Magazine and has just been released as an audiobook from Audible.com. KFTPB 2 is due out from ChiZine Publications in Spring 2014. Visit him online at www.coldandalone.com.
BEN LOORY’S fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker, on NPR’s This American Life, and live at Selected Shorts. His book Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day was published by Penguin in 2011.
NICK MAMATAS is the author of several novels, including Bullettime and Love is the Law, and dozens of short stories. His work has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, New Haven Review, subTERRAIN, and Best American Mystery Stories among many other venues. In 2013 he was nominated for the Locus Award for his anthology The Future Is Japanese, co-edited with Masumi Washington. A native New Yorker, Nick now lives in California.
JARRET MIDDLETON is the author of An Dantomine Eerly and other fiction. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Dark Coast Press and Pharos Editions. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Collagist, Smalldoggies, Big Other, HTMLGIANT, Smoke Long Quarterly and Slingshot. He lives in Seattle, WA. For more visit www.jarretmiddleton.com.
EDWARD MORRIS is a 2011 nominee for the Pushcart Prize in Literature, also nominated for the 2009 Rhysling Award and the 2005 British Science Fiction Association Award. His short fiction has appeared in over a hundred worldwide markets, including The Lovecraft Ezine, Robert M. Price’s The Mountains of Madness and Joseph Pulver’s A Season in Carcosa.
J. DAVID OSBORNE lives in Norman, OK with his wife and dog. His work has appeared in Warmed and Bound, John Skipp’s Demons, and several other online and print publications. He is the winner of the 2010 Wonderland Book Award for Best Novel for By The Time We Leave Here, We’ll Be Friends. His second novel, Low Down Death Right Easy, was published by Swallowdown Press in 2013. He also runs the rural noir publishing house Broken River Books.
SAM PINK is the author of Rontel, Person, Hurt Others, I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It, and other books. He lives in Chicago and plays in the band Young Family. Visit him online at www.impersonalelectroniccommunication.com.
JOSEPH S. PULVER, SR., is the author of the novels The Orphan Palace (Chomu Press) and Nightmare’s Disciple (Chaosium), and he has written many short stories that have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including Weird Fiction Review, Crypt of Cthulhu, and The Lovecraft eZine, Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, S. T. Joshi’s Black Wings (I and III; PS Publishing) A Mountain Walked (Centipede Press 2014), and Ross E. Lockhart’s The Book of Cthulhu (Night Shade). His collections, Blood Will Have Its Season, SIN & ashes, and Portraits of Ruin, were published by Hippocampus Press.
He edited A Season in Carcosa and The Grimscribe’s Puppets (Miskatonic River Press), and collections by Ann K. Schwader (The Worms Remember) and John B. Ford, and Edward Morris’ A CROOKED MAN series (Mercury Retrograde Press).
His new collection, Stained Translations, edited by Jeffrey Thomas, will appear in 2013.
You can find his blog at: http://thisyellowmadness.blogspot.com.
MATTHEW REVERT is the author of Basal Ganglia (Lazy Fascist Press), How to Avoid Sex (Copeland Valley/Dark Coast Press), The Tumours Made Me Interesting (LegumeMan Books) and A Million Versions of Right (LegumeMan Books). Revert has had work published in Le Zaporogue, The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade, The New Flesh, and The Bizarro Starter Kit (Purple), among others.
In addition to his writing, Revert has gained recognition for his design work for various highly-regarded presses and record labels.
KRIS SAKNUSSEMM is the author of eleven books that have been translated into twenty-two languages. His second novel, Private Midnight, is now under option in Hollywood. His story included here was first selected for publication in The New England Review by guest editor Raymond Carver and appears in his collected early works of short fiction, Sinister Miniatures, published by Lazy Fascist Press.
KEVIN SAMPSELL lives in Portland, Oregon and has seen the movie Blue Velvet about thirty times. His books include the story collections, Beautiful Blemish and Creamy Bullets, the memoir, A Common Pornography, and the novel, This Is Between Us. His favorite Lynch actress is Sherilyn Fenn.
BRADLEY SANDS is the author of Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy, Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You, TV Snorted My Brain, and others. Visit him at bradleysands.com.
MICHAEL J SEIDLINGER is the author of My Pet Serial Killer and The Laughter of Strangers, forthcoming from Lazy Fascist in November 2013. He owns and operates the small press Civil Coping Mechanisms.
JEREMY C. SHIPP is the author of Cursed, Vacation, and Attic Clowns. His short fiction has appeared in over sixty publications, including Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, and Shroud Magazine. Jeremy lives in southern California in a moderately haunted Victorian farmhouse. Visit him online at www.jeremycshipp.com.
JOHN SKIPP is a New York Times bestselling author and editor, whose twenty-three books have sold millions of copies in a dozen languages worldwide. His first anthology, Book of the Dead, laid the foundation in 1989 for modern zombie literature. He has edited four anthologies for Black Dog & Leventhal, Zombies, Werewolves, Psychos, and Demons, which won a Bram Stoker Award. From splatterpunk founding father to hilarious elder statesman, Skipp’s legendary horror works include The Light At The End, The Scream, The Long Last Call, and The Last Goddam Hollywood Movie (with Cody Goodfellow).
JODY SOLLAZZO grew up in the suburbs of Westchester County. While the other girls were going to see Pretty Woman again she was begging for bootlegs of Eraserhead and MST3K. She always looked to artists like David Lynch, Joyce Carol Oates, George Carlin, Ani Difranco and Joss Whedon to explore the darkness. She lives in Northern California with her wonderful partner, their perfect daughter, and pets. She works in mental health, disability rights, and anti-bullying. Always a fan of bad timing, she is now also trying to achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a writer. “Outlier” is her first published story. You can also check out her blog at: http://thatdisabledmom.blogspot.com.
JEFFREY THOMAS is the author of such novels as Deadstock (finalist for the John W. Campbell Award), Blue War, Monstrocity (finalist for the Bram Stoker Award), Letters from Hades, The Fall of Hades, and A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Dealers. His short story collections include Punktown, Nocturnal Emissions, Thirteen Specimens, Voices from Punktown, Voices from Hades, and (with W. H. Pugmire) Encounters With Enoch Coffin. Several of his books have been translated into German, Russian, Greek, Polish, and Taiwanese edi
tions. His stories have appeared in the anthologies The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, The Year’s Best Horror Stories, Leviathan 3, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, and The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. Jeffrey Thomas lives in Massachusetts. His blog can be found at http://punktalk.punktowner.com.
ZACK WENTZ’S work has appeared in many places. He runs New Dead Families [http://newdeadfamilies.com/], and is a part of (Charles)Book&Record.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Special thanks to all the editors who originally published the following stories:
“Hinterkaifeck Again” by Nick Antosca first published in Black Candies. © 2012 by Nick Antosca. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“A Model Made Out of Card Or, The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences” by Gabriel Blackwell first published in Unstuck #2. © 2012 by Gabriel Blackwell. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Twin Peaks” by Blake Butler first published in Titular Journal. © 2009 by Blake Butler. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Where Walls Would Have” by Blake Butler first published in New Dead Families. © 2010 by Blake Butler. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“These Are the Fables” by Amelia Gray first published in Hobart, and subsequently as part of Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading. © 2012 by Amelia Gray. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Persistence Hunting” by Jeremy Robert Johnson first published in We Live Inside You (Swallowdown Press). © 2011 by Jeremy Robert Johnson. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Teatro Grottesco” by Thomas Ligotti first published in The Nightmare Factory (Carroll and Graf) and subsequently in Teatro Grottesco (Durtro, Virgin). © 1996 by Thomas Ligotti. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Hadley” by Ben Loory first published in Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day (Penguin). © 2011 by Ben Loory. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Friendship is Niceness And Is” by Sam Pink first published in The Self-Esteem Holocaust Comes Home (Lazy Fascist Press). © 2010 by Sam Pink. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Garage Door” by Kris Saknussemm first published in The New England Review and subsequently in Sinister Miniatures (Lazy Fascist Press). © 2011 by Kris Saknussemm. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Hot Dog (Bring Protection)” by Kevin Sampsell first published in How To Lose Your Mind With the Lights On (Future Tense). © 1994 by Kevin Sampsell. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Trembler” by Kevin Sampsell is a chapter from the novel This Is Between Us (Tin House). Chapter first published in Pageboy. © 2012 by Kevin Sampsell. Reprinted by permission of the author.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
CAMERON PIERCE lives in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of eight books, including the Wonderland Book Award-winning collection Lost in Cat Brain Land, the controversial cult hit Ass Goblins of Auschwitz, and most recently, Die You Doughnut Bastards. His fully illustrated novel Fantastic Earth Destroyer Ultra Plus (w/ Jim Agpalza) is forthcoming in hardcover in November 2013. In 2012, he edited the anthology The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade. Cameron is also the head editor of Lazy Fascist Press and writes for ManArchy Magazine.
He’s currently hard at work on Our Love Will Go the Way of the Salmon, a collection of Lynchian fishing stories set in the Pacific Northwest.
His favorite David Lynch film is Blue Velvet.
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