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JEFF GELB — Haunted: Dark Delicacies III is Jeff Gelb’s twenty-second anthology as editor or coeditor, and his twenty-third published book of fiction. He is still thrilled to work with writers he has admired his entire lifetime.
HEATHER GRAHAM — New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Heather Graham has written over one hundred novels and novellas including category, suspense, historical romance, vampire fiction, time travel, occult, and Christmas family fare. She has been honored with awards from Walden Books, B. Dalton, Georgia Romance Writers, Affaire de Coeur, Romantic Times, and more. Heather is the proud recipient of the Silver Bullet from Thriller Writers. Heather has had books selected for the Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild, and has been quoted, interviewed, or featured in such publications as The Nation, Redbook, Mystery Book Club, People, and USA Today. She has appeared on many newscasts including Today, Entertainment Tonight, and local television. The complete Flynn Brothers Trilogy has been released: Deadly Gift, Deadly Harvest, and Deadly Night. In 2009, she released Nightwalker, Dust to Dust, Unhallowed Ground, Home in Time for Christmas, and her first illustrated book, There Be Dragons. Each year she hosts the Vampire Ball and Dinner theater at the RT convention, raising money for the Pediatric Aids Society, and in 2006 she hosted the first Writers for New Orleans Workshop to benefit the stricken Gulf region.
SIMON R. GREEN — Simon R. Green has written thirty-seven books, all of them different. He has two degrees (one more and he could have been a singing group) and has worked as a shop assistant, bicycle repair mechanic, journalist, actor, and mail-order bride. He lives in the small country town of Bradford-on-Avon in the southwest of England. He has never worked for MI5; don’t believe anyone who tells you otherwise.
JOSEPH V. HARTLAUB — Joseph V. Hartlaub is an attorney specializing in entertainment law with special emphasis on musical and literary intellectual property rights. He is also senior writer and reviewer for bookreporter.com and music-reviewer.com. Joe’s short story “Crossed Double” appeared in Thriller 2, an anthology of original thriller stories published in 2009. Joe made his acting debut in the film LA-308, released in 2009. He lives in Westerville, Ohio, with his wife and four children. A firearm, bladed weapon, and personal protection enthusiast, Joe characterizes himself as “a very boring guy who gets to live a very interesting life.”
DEL HOWISON — Del Howison is an award-winning editor and an author. His books have been nominated for or won the Bram Stoker Award, the Black Quill Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Rondo Award. He is also co-owner of America’s only all-horror book and gift store, Dark Delicacies, in Burbank, California. He can be found at www.darkdel.com.
DEL JAMES — Del James is a meat-eating, cigar-smoking, pro-choice, sober atheist. When not out pillaging the free world as the road manager for Guns N’ Roses, he can be found lurking in the shadows of Hollywood’s seediest dive bars and rock clubs. Depending on his mood, James writes horror fiction, screenplays, and music. Before being reprinted in 2008, his collection of short horror stories, The Language of Fear, was among the top ten most sought-after, out-of-print horror/sci-fi titles. He lives in Southern California.
JOHN R. LITTLE — John R. Little’s first novel, The Memory Tree, was published in 2007 and nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. His following four books, Placeholders, Miranda, The Gray Zone, and Dreams in Black and White, were all recently published novellas. He’s been publishing horror and dark fantasy since the early 1980s.
RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON — Richard Christian Matheson is an acclaimed novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter-producer. He has written and cowritten feature film and television projects for Richard Donner, Ivan Reitman, Steven Spielberg, Bryan Singer, and many others. He has also written pilots for comedy and dramatic series for Showtime, Fox, NBC, ABC, TNT, HBO, FOX, Spike, and CBS. Matheson’s critically lauded fiction has been published in major award-winning anthologies, including multiple times in The Year’s Best Horror and The Year’s Best Fantasy, as well as Penthouse and Omni magazines. Matheson’s stories have been collected in Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks and Dystopia. His debut novel, Created By, was a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best first novel.
ARDATH MAYHAR — Ardath Mayhar, born in 1930, began her writing career as a poet when she was nineteen. She began writing science fiction in 1979 after returning with her family to Texas from Oregon. She has been nominated for the Nebula Award and the Mark Twain Award and won the Balrog Award for a horror narrative poem in Masques I. She has had numerous other nominations for awards in almost every fiction genre and has won many awards for poetry. In 2008 she was chosen by the Science Fiction Writers of America as their Author Emeritus. Mayhar has written over sixty books, ranging from science fiction to horror to young adult to historical to Westerns, with some work under the pseudonyms Frank Cannon, Frances Hurst, and John Killdeer. Joe R. Lansdale says simply, “Ardath Mayhar writes damn fine books!”
DAVID MORRELL — David Morrell is the author of First Blood, the award-winning novel in which Rambo was created. He holds a PhD in American literature from Pennsylvania State University and taught in the English department at the University of Iowa until he gave up his tenure to write full-time. His numerous bestselling novels include The Brotherhood of the Rose (the basis for a top-rated NBC miniseries broadcast after the Super Bowl), The Fraternity of the Stone, and Creepers. Cofounder of the International Thriller Writers organization, Morrell is a three-time recipient of the Horror Writers Bram Stoker Award. His short stories have appeared in many of the major horror/fantasy anthologies, including the Whispers, Shadows, Night Visions, and Masters of Darkness series, as well as The Twilight Zone Magazine, The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror, Psycho Paths, Prime Evil, Dark at Heart, Metahorror, Revelations, 999, and Red-shift. In The Successful Novelist, he describes what he has learned during his almost four decades as a published author. Visit him at www.davidmorrell.net.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK — Chuck Palahniuk is the author of nine novels and two books of nonfiction. His latest novel, Pygmy, was published in 2009. For more information, go to chuckpalahniuk.net.
ERIC RED — Born in Pittsburgh and raised in New York and Philadelphia, Eric Red began his career in the film industry at age nineteen with his nationally distributed urban Western short, Gunmen’s Blues, quickly followed by a second award-winning short, Telephone. After attending the American Film Institute, Red got his start in Hollywood by penning two classic horror thrillers, The Hitcher and Near Dark. The first feature he wrote and directed was the crime thriller Cohen and Tate. Over the past two decades, Red has written and/or directed numerous major films in the horror, thriller, and Western genres. His scripts include Blue Steel and The Last Outlaw. He wrote and directed Body Parts, Undertow, and Bad Moon. A second major Universal remake of one of his earlier films, Near Dark, is under way. His next original script, the car-chase thriller Stopping Power, is currently in pre-production. Red also works in the comic and graphic novel field, where he recently created and wrote the successful sci-fi horror comic series Containment for IDW Publishing. Red’s latest film as a writer/director is 100 Feet. He is currently developing the contemporary vampire film Nightlife and a film version of Jack Ketchum’s Off Season. Red and his wife, Meredith, live in Los Angeles.
VICTOR SALVA — Victor Salva had written and directed over twenty shorts and feature-length films before graduating high school in his hometown of Martinez in Northern California. In the late 80s, Salva’s homemade horror short Something in the Basement won at the Chicago Film Festival, picked up an ACE Cable Award, and brought him to the attention of Francis Ford Coppola, who produced Salva’s first theatrical feature, Clownhouse, a low-budget thriller about killer clowns that kick-started Salva’s career as the award-winning writer-director of numerous feature films in various genres, most notably the science-fiction drama Powder. In 2001, Salva wrote and directed Jeepers Creepers, his throwback to the old-style horror films he loved as a boy. Salva followed with Jeepers
Creepers 2. In 2005, he did the big-screen adaptation of the bestselling book Way of the Peaceful Warrior, and in 2007 wrote a teleplay for NBC’s short-lived horror series Fear Itself In 2008 he penned the modern-day ghost story about Alcatraz Island titled “The Wind at the Door” and, as of this writing, is working on Jeepers Creepers III: Cathedral, which will be the final installment in his Jeepers Creepers trilogy.
STEVEN WEBER — With a wide range of acclaimed film, television, and theater credits to his name, Steven Weber has established himself as one of the most diverse and respected talents in the industry. In 2007 Weber received critical acclaim for his performance as network honcho Jack Rudolph in NBC’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. He has starred in several popular series such as Wings, Once and Again, and The D.A. He can also be seen in current episodes of Brothers and Sisters and Without a Trace. He made his New York theater debut opposite Geraldine Page in Odets’ Paradise Lost. On Broadway he appeared in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing. In 2002 he took over for Matthew Broderick in The Producers and later starred in London opposite Kevin Spacey in the Old Vic production of National Anthems. Weber made his writing debut with his critically acclaimed film Club Land, costarring with Alan Alda as a struggling father-son team of theatrical agents. Alda earned Emmy and SAG award nominations for his performance. Weber’s affinity for all things horror and fantasy led to his starring in the ABC miniseries The Shining as well as cowriting and directing two episodes of The Outer Limits. He recently adapted the famous Bernie Wrightson–illustrated story “Jenifer” for the Masters of Horror series. His other forays into the genre include Reefer Madness and Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
COPYRIGHTS
“Introduction” copyright © 2009 by Jeff Gelb.
“Foreword” copyright © 2009 by Steven Weber.
“Children of the Vortex” copyright © 2009 by Simon Clark.
“Mist on the Bayou” copyright © 2009 by Heather Graham.
“In the Mix” copyright © 2009 by Eric Red.
“How to Edit” copyright © 2009 by Richard Christian Matheson.
“Resurrection Man” copyright © 2009 by Axelle Carolyn.
“A Haunting” copyright © 2009 by John Connolly.
“Church Services” copyright © 2009 by Kevin J. Anderson.
“Starlets & Spaceboys” copyright © 2009 by Joseph V. Hartlaub.
“A Nasty Way to Go” copyright © 2009 by Ardath Mayhar.
“The Flinch” copyright © 2009 by Michael Boatman.
“Tyler’s Third Act” copyright © 2009 by Mick Garris.
“‘Though Thy Lips Are Pale’” copyright © 2009 by Maria Alexander.
“The Slow Haunting” copyright © 2009 by John R. Little.
“Food of the Gods” copyright © 2009 by Simon R. Green.
“Do Sunflowers Have a Fragrance?” copyright © 2009 by Del James.
“The Wandering Unholy” copyright © 2009 by Victor Salva.
“Man with a Canvas Bag” copyright © 2009 by Gary A. Braunbeck.
“Fetch” copyright © 2009 by Chuck Palahniuk.
“The Architecture of Snow” copyright © 2009 by David Morrell.
“And So with Cries” copyright © 2009 by Clive Barker.
“One Last Bother” copyright © 2009 by Del Howison.
ALSO FROM DEL HOWISON
When Werewolves Attack: A Field Guide to Dispatching Ravenous Flesh-Ripping Beasts*
Vampires Don't Sleep Alone: Your Guide to Meeting, Dating and Seducing a Vampire*, edited with Elizabeth Barrial
Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker's Nightbreed, edited with Joseph Nasisse
DARK DELICACIES
Dark Delicacies*, edited with Jeff Gelb
Dark Delicacies II: Fear*, edited with Jeff Gelb
Dark Delicacies III: Haunted*, edited with Jeff Gelb
ALSO EDITED BY JEFF GELB
HOT BLOOD SERIES
Hot Blood, with Michael Garrett
Hotter Blood*, with Michael Garrett
Hottest Blood*, with Michael Garrett
Hot Blood IV: Deadly After Dark*, with Michael Garrett
Hot Blood V: Seeds of Evil*, with Michael Garrett
Hot Blood VI: Stranger by Night*, with Michael Garrett
Hot Blood VII: Fear the Fever*, with Michael Garrett
Hot Blood VIII: Kiss and Kill*, with Michael Garrett
Hot Blood IX: Crimes of Passion*, with Michael Garrett
Hot Blood X, with Michael Garrett
Hot Blood XI: Fatal Attractions*, with Michael Garrett
Hot Blood XII: Strange Bedfellows, with Michael Garrett
Hot Blood XIII: Dark Passions, with Michael Garrett
Fear Itself*, with Michael Garrett
Shock Rock, with Michael Garrett
Shock Rock II, with Michael Garrett
NOVELS BY JEFF GELB
Specters*
*available as a Jabberwocky ebook
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