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Erinn has sold stories to Cemetery Dance Magazine, Dark Discoveries, and Black Static and appears in various anthologies including The Library of the Dead, A Darke Phantastique, Adam’s Ladder, and Behold! Oddities, Curiosities, and Undefinable Wonders. Visit her website at erinnkemper.com for updates and sloth sightings.
Joe R. Lansdale
Joe R. Lansdale is the author of forty-five novels, four hundred short stories, numerous films and comic strips, and has received numerous awards for his work, including the Edgar, the Spur, ten Bram Stokers and others. Several of his novels and stories have been filmed or are slated for filming. Among those filmed are Bubba Hotep, Cold in July, and the current Sundance TV series, Hap and Leonard.
C.W. LaSart
A lifelong fan of all things horror, C.W. LaSart has been published by Cemetery Dance Press, Dark Moon Books, Eirelander Press and many more. She is the Head Verifier for the Bram Stoker Awards and a proud member of the Horror Writers Association, as well as the administrator of the Open Call: Horror Markets Group on Facebook, which assists over six thousand members in finding homes for their dark fiction. A mother of three and caretaker of a veritable menagerie of rescue rodents, C.W. LaSart also spends her time managing an Irish Pub. She claims to live in the least haunted house in North America. For more information, she can be found at CWLaSart.com and C.W.LaSart@hotmail.com.
Suzanne Madron
Suzanne Madron was born in New York City and has lived up and down the East Coast. Currently she resides on a house built over a Civil War battlefield in the wilds of Pennsylvania, where she has been known to host some interesting Halloween parties. She has authored several novels and stories under various names including Suzi M, James Glass, and Xircon. Her favorite hobby is getting autographs and photos of people who recognize her.
Ronald Malfi
Ronald Malfi is the award-winning author of several horror novels, mysteries, and thrillers. He is the recipient of two Independent Publisher Book Awards, the Beverly Hills Book Award, the Vincent Preis Horror Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award for Popular Fiction, and he is a Bram Stoker Award nominee. When he’s not writing, he’s busy fronting the rock band Veer. His most recent novel is Bone White, out now from Kensington Books.
William Meikle
William Meikle is a Scottish writer, now living in Canada, with twenty novels published in the genre press and over 300 short story credits in thirteen countries. He has books available from a variety of publishers including Dark Regions Press, DarkFuse and Dark Renaissance, and his work has appeared in a number of professional anthologies and magazines. He lives in Newfoundland with whales, bald eagles and icebergs for company. When he’s not writing he drinks beer, plays guitar, and dreams of fortune and glory.
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
Eden Royce
Eden Royce is descended from women who practiced root, a type of conjure magic in her native Charleston, South Carolina. She’s been a bridal consultant, reptile handler, and stockbroker, but now writes dark fiction about the American South from her home in the English countryside.
She is the author of Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror, a short story collection that features the language and traditions of the Gullah-Geechee people, descendants of the first slaves brought to the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. She also conceived and edited The Grotesquerie, an anthology of twenty-one horror short stories written by women.
Eden also writes a regular feature for Graveyard Shift Sisters, a site dedicated to purging the black female horror fan from the margins and Dirge, the premier dark culture magazine, covering counterculture arts and entertainment, lifestyle, and editorials.
Find out more about Eden’s brand of horror at edenroyce.com
Lucy A. Snyder
Lucy A. Snyder is a four-time Bram Stoker Award-winning writer who wrote the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, and Switchblade Goddess. She also authored the nonfiction book Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide and the story collections While the Black Stars Burn, Soft Apocalypses, Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger.
Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Steampunk World, In the Court of the Yellow King, Shadows Over Main Street Volume 1, Qualia Nous, Seize the Night, and Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5.
She lives in Columbus, Ohio and is a mentor in Seton Hill University’s MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. She also writes a column for Horror World. You can learn more about her at www.lucysnyder.com and you can follow her on Twitter at @LucyASnyder.
John F.D. Taff
John F.D. Taff has been writing for about 25 years now, with more than eighty short stories and four novels in print. His collection Little Deaths was named the best horror fiction collection of 2012 by HorrorTalk. His 2014 collection of novellas, The End in All Beginnings, was published by Grey Matter Press. Jack Ketchum called The End in All Beginnings “the best novella collection I’ve read in years,” and it was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection. Taff’s work also has appeared recently in Cutting Block Single Slices, Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, The Beauty of Death and I Can Taste the Blood. He lives in the wilds of Illinois with a wife, a cat and three pugs.
Damien Angelica Walters
Damien Angelica Walters is the author of Paper Tigers (Dark House Press, 2016) and Sing Me Your Scars (Apex Publications, 2015), and winner of the This is Horror Award for Short Story Collection of the Year. Her work has been nominated twice for a Bram Stoker Award, reprinted in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror and The Year’s Best Weird Fiction, and published in various anthologies and magazines, including Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Cemetery Dance Online, Nightmare Magazine, and Black Static. She lives in Maryland with her husband and two rescued pit bulls. Find her on Twitter @DamienAWalters or on the web at http://damienangelicawalters.com.
Michael Wehunt
Michael Wehunt grew up in North Georgia, close enough to the Appalachians to feel them but not quite easily see them. His short fiction has appeared in Cemetery Dance, The Dark, The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, and Year’s Best Weird Fiction, among others. His debut fiction collection, Greener Pastures, is out now from Shock Totem Publications. Find him at www.michaelwehunt.com.
Jay Wilburn
Jay Wilburn lives with his wife and two sons in Conway, South Carolina near Myrtle Beach on the Atlantic coast of the southern United States. He has a Masters Degree in education and he taught public school for sixteen years before becoming a full time writer. He is the author of many short stories including work in Best Horror of the Year Volume 5, Zombies More Recent Dead, and Middletown Apocalypse. He is the author of the Dead Song Legend Dodecology and the music of the five song soundtrack recorded as if by the characters within the world of the novel The Sound May Suffer. He also wrote the novels The Great Interruption, Time Eaters, and co-authored The Enemy Held Near with Armand Rosamilia. Jay Wilburn is a regular columnist with Dark Moon Digest. Follow his many dark thoughts on Twitt
er as @AmongTheZombies, his Facebook author page, and at JayWilburn.com
Douglas Wynne
Douglas Wynne is the author of the novels The Devil of Echo Lake, Steel Breeze, Red Equinox, and Black January. His recently published and forthcoming short fiction includes stories in Dark Discoveries, The Lovecraft eZine, and the anthologies Tales from the Miskatonic Library, The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft, and I Am the Abyss. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and son and a houseful of animals just a stone’s throw from the fictional town of Arkham. You can find him on the web at www.dougwynne.com