Shotguns v. Cthulhu

by Larry DiTillio

  Chris Lackey is the co-host of the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast, animation and film director and ukulele enthusiast. Look for Deadbeats,a graphic novel he co-wrote with Chad Fifer, from Self Made Hero Publishing. Chris has directed his own animated feature, The Chosen One (2007), and worked as a producer on the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s The Call of Cthulhu and The Whisperer in Darkness. Chris is an American who lives in Yorkshire, England. He likes the rain.

  Editor and Stone Skin Press Creative Director Robin D. Laws is an author, game designer, and podcaster. His novels include Pierced Heart, The Rough and the Smooth, and The Worldwound Gambit. Robin created the GUMSHOE investigative roleplaying rules system and such games as Feng Shui, The Dying Earth, HeroQuest and Ashen Stars. He is one half of the podcasting team behind “Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff.” Find his blog, a cavalcade of film, culture, games, narrative structure and gun-toting avians, at robindlaws.com.

  Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including the Lovecraftian Beat road novel Move Under Ground, and with Brian Keene the Lovecraftian gonzo journalism tract The Damned Highway. He’s also the author of over eighty short stories, some of which have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Tor.com, and the anthology Lovecraft Unbound. Nick’s work has been nominated for the Bram Stoker award five times in five different categories, including achievement in short story for "The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft" co-written with Tim Pratt; he won a Stoker in the anthology category for Haunted Legends co-edited with Ellen Datlow.

  Ekaterina Sedia resides in the Pinelands of New Jersey. Her critically acclaimed novels, The Secret History of Moscow, The Alchemy of Stone, The House of Discarded Dreams and Heart of Iron were published by Prime Books. Her short stories have sold to Analog, Baen’s Universe, Subterranean and Clarkesworld, as well as numerous anthologies, including Haunted Legends and Magic in the Mirrorstone. She is also the editor of Paper Cities (World Fantasy Award winner), Running with the Pack and Bewere the Night, as well as forthcoming Bloody Fabulous. Visit her at www.ekaterinasedia.com.

  Kyla Ward is a Sydney-based creative who works in many modes. Her novel Prismatic (co-authored as Edwina Grey) won an Aurealis Award for horror. Her short fiction has appeared in Ticonderoga Online, Shadowed Realms, Gothic.net and in the Macabre anthology amongst others. Her short film, Bad Reception, screened at the 3rd international Vampire Film Festival and she is a member of the Theatre of Blood, which has also produced her work. Poetry, articles, rpgs, art; if you can scare people with it she probably has, to the extent of programming the horror stream at the 2010 Worldcon. To see some very strange things, try www.tabula-rasa.info.