Joe McKinney has his feet in several different worlds. In his day job, he has worked as a patrol officer for the San Antonio Police Department, a DWI Enforcement officer, a disaster mitigation specialist, a homicide detective, the director of the City of San Antonio’s 911 Call Center, and a patrol supervisor. He played college baseball for Trinity University, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in American History, and went on to earn a Master’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He was the manager of a Barnes & Noble for a while, where he indulged a lifelong obsession with books. He published his first novel, Dead City, in 2006, a book that has since been recognized as a seminal work in the zombie genre. Since then, he has gone on to win two Bram Stoker Awards and expanded his oeuvre to cover everything from true crime and writings on police procedure to science fiction to cooking to Texas history. The author of more than twenty books, he is a frequent guest at horror and mystery conventions. Joe and his wife Tina have two lovely daughters and make their home in a little town just outside of San Antonio, where he pursues his passion for cooking and makes what some consider to be the finest batch of chili in Texas. You can keep up with all of Joe’s latest releases by friending him on Facebook.

Lawrence Dagstine is a speculative fiction writer of 30 years, with around 600 works published in genre fiction magazines and anthologies. Over the last three decades he’s been in pro markets. Semi-pro markets. Small press markets. Micro press markets. Trade magazines, and the occasional literary journal. A freelancer by trade, he has been published by houses such as Damnation Books, Steampunk Tales, Wicked Shadow Press, Black Beacon Books, Campfire Publishing, Nomadic Delirium Press, Altitude Press, Farthest Star Publishing, Timber Ghost Press, The Orange & Bee, and Calliope Interactive. Some of his recent books commissioned from small press publishers include The Paraplegic, Small Favors, and The Nightmare Cycle. You can find a body of his work, both past and present.

W.D. Gagliani is the author of the horror/thriller WOLF'S TRAP, a past Bram Stoker Award nominee, as well as the Nick Lupo series WOLF'S GAMBIT, WOLF'S BLUFF, WOLF'S EDGE, WOLF'S CUT, and WOLF'S BLIND, plus the novellas WOLF'S DEAL and WOLF'S CALL. Gagliani is also the author of the supernatural thriller THE JUDAS HIT and the hard-noir thriller SAVAGE NIGHTS, the collection SHADOWPLAYS, the pulp fantasy novella THE GREAT BELZONI AND THE GAIT OF ANUBIS (two versions), and various holiday-themed short stories such as "The Christmas Wolf," etc.

Gagliani has written numerous short stories published in many anthologies, such as FEARFUL FATHOMS, ROBERT BLOCH'S PSYCHOS, UNDEAD TALES, MORE MONSTERS FROM MEMPHIS, THE MIDNIGHTERS CLUB, etc.

Additionally, the creative team of W.D. Gagliani and David Benton published the novels ACOLYTES OF THE DEAD (JournalStone, 2025) and KILLER LAKE (Deadite Press, 2019), which was nominated in 2020 for both the Splatterpunk Award for Best Novel and the Indie Horror Book Award (Splatterpunk novel). The team of Gagliani and Benton has also published fiction in SNAFU: DEAD OR ALIVE, A FISTFUL OF DEMONS, THE X-FILES: TRUST NO ONE, SPLATTERPUNK: FIGHTING BACK (also translated into Italian), SPLATTERPUNK: PAST INDISCRETIONS, SNAFU: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MILITARY HORROR, SNAFU: WOLVES AT THE DOOR, ZIPPERED FLESH 2, MASTERS OF UNREALITY, DARK PASSIONS: HOT BLOOD 13, and many more, including webzines such THE HORROR ZINE and DEAD LINES.

Gagliani has also written numerous book reviews, articles, and interviews that have been published in places such as THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, CHIZINE, CEMETERY DANCE, HORRORWORLD, PAPERBACK PARADE, CINEMA RETRO, HELLNOTES, FLESH & BLOOD, BOOKPAGE, BOOKLOVERS, THE SCREAM FACTORY, HORROR MAGAZINE, SF CHRONICLE, BARE BONES (first and second version), and others. His work was also published in the Writers Digest book ON WRITING HORROR, THEY BITE!, ZOMBIE WRITING!, and in the Edgar Award-nominated THRILLERS: 100 MUST READS. THE WRITER magazine published his article on writing werewolf epics in October 2011.

His interests include old and new progressive rock, a pile of analog synthesizers and his Theremin, weapons, history (and alternate history, secret history, and steampunk), military history, movies, book reviewing, and plain old reading and writing. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), the International Thriller Writers (ITW), and the Authors Guild. He lives and writes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Find him on Facebook and Bluesky.

Mark Tufo was born in Boston Massachusetts. He attended UMASS Amherst where he obtained a BA and later joined the US Marine Corp. He was stationed in Parris Island SC, Twenty Nine Palms CA and Kaneohe Bay Hawaii. After his tour he went into the Human Resources field with a worldwide financial institution and has gone back to college at CTU to complete his masters.

He has written the Indian Hill trilogy with the first Indian Hill - Encounters being published for the Amazon Kindle in July 2009. He has since written the Zombie Fallout series and is working on a new zombie book.

He lives in Maine with his wife, three kids and two English bulldogs. Visit him at marktufo.com or http://zombiefallout.blogspot.com/ or http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mark-Tufo/133954330009843 for news on his next two installments of the Indian Hill trilogy and upcoming installments of the Zombie Fallout series.

Carole Gill is published by Creativia. She writes dark Gothic romance as well as contemporary horror.

Preditors & Editors’ Readers’ POLL

#2 BEST HORROR NOVEL 2016

I, BATHORY, QUEEN OF BLOOD

BEST INDIE BOOK FINALIST

2016

CIRCUS OF HORRORS

Her acclaimed 4-novel series, The Blackstone Vampires:

2014 - Amazon Bestseller in Dark Fantasy - THE BLACKSTONE VAMPIRES OMNIBUS

2015 - Amazon Bestseller in Vampire Horror - THE BLACKSTONE VAMPIRES OMNIBUS

2015 - Amazon Bestseller in Horror Anthologies - HOUSE OF HORRORS

AWARDS:

eBook Festival of Words 2014

Best Horror: The House on Blackstone Moor and

Best Villain: Eco

Top 10 Books - 2013 - The House on Blackstone Moor

Aoife Marie Sheridan - ALL THINGS FANTASY

Publisher, Ultimate Fantasy Books

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92 Horror authors you need to read right now,

Carole Gill - The Blackstone Vampires Series. ~Charlotte Books Examiner,

Justine: Into The Blood Book One - Blood and Passion Series is on sale at Amazon.

Book 2, Anat: Blood Princess, follows.

I, Bathory, Queen of Blood, a novel about the Blood Countess Erzsebat Bathory is her latest book. For dark horror fans there is, Carole Gill's House of Horrors and the novel, Circus of Horrors.

In 2000 she was selected by Northwest Playwrights of England for further development. Short stories and novels were what she preferred to write.

Her story, The Devil's Work is being broadcast web and television in the Fragments of Fear Program in 2016.

Blog:

http://carolegillauthor.blogspot.co.uk/

facebook author page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carole-Gill-Author/120405794703293?ref=ts

She is widely published in horror and sci-fi anthologies:

Fragments of Fear tv and YOU TUBE, 'THE DEVIL'S WORK'

Killing it Softly, Digital Fiction Publishing Corp.

Sideshow, published by PsychoPomp

After Armeagedon short story collection by Brian L. Porter (guest story by Carole Gill)

Rogues Gallery, The Illustrated Police News, Firbolg

Enter at Your Own Risk: Dark Muses Spoken Silences Firbolg

Vampires: Romance to Rippers an Anthology of Tasty Tales

A S Publications: Enter at Your Own Risk: Old Masters New Voices, An Anthology of Gothic Literature,

Fresh Fear: Contemporary Horror

Triskaideka Books' Masters of Horror Anthology One,

Triskaideka Books' Masters of Horror Damned If You Don't,

Sonar 4 Publishing's Ladies and Gentlemen of Horror 2010,

SNM's Bonded By Blood3 Languish In Lament,

Sonar 4 Publishing's Whitechapel 13, Anthology,

Rymfire's Undead Tales,

Rymfire's Zombie Winter,

Rymfire's Zombie Writing

Angelic Knight Press' Satan's Toy Box: Demonic Dolls and

Whitechapel 13, An Anthology of the Victorian Era

Sci Fi Almanac 2009 and 2010 and

Science Fiction Freedom Magazine, issues 1-4,

Sci Fi Talk's Tales of Time and Space.

Hi there, first let me thank you for taking the time to view my page.

I have been writing since I was five years old, when my mom would write down my stories for me as I told them to her. They were horrible things that would take you from the bginning, to the middle and all of the way to the end of an interstellar war in about half a page with usually about two characters ha ha.

Fortuantly my writing has improved greatly over the years and my work is available in many places. First, my novels The Dead of Space Book One: Brave New World and Here Comes Santa are available here on Amazon and The Dead of Space Book Two: Journey's End will be available shortly. I have also created and written a vampire web series that has been picked up by an indie film maker, which can be viewed for free at http://www.transitionstheseries.com/index.html I also write fanfiction, when I have the time ha ha, which can be read for free here http://www.fanfiction.net/u/409230/Bullfrog I also have a page on Facebook called A Twisted Mind: The Fiction of Jeremiah Coe. If you are on Facebook feel free to check it out and be sure to click the like button. I also may end up hosting a horror themed internet radio talk show.

My taste in what I read and write is wide and varied. It might seem strange for a horror writer to say but my favorite books are the North and South trilogy by John Jakes. I mostly write horror but I also write some sci-fi and some action adventure.

I would love to hear what you think of my work. Please feel free to email me at jeremiah_coe@yahoo.com

Born in the 60′s, he managed to survive the decades that followed with minimum trauma. He lives in the north of England, the County of West Yorkshire, and is married with four children, four stepchildren and numerous pets.

He has been a writer for over two decades but has only recently decided to make a name for himself, with several novels and multiple short stories available. Ian writes mainly in the horror genre, but sometimes likes to add a helping of Science fiction and romance.

Come visit me at my home at www.ianwoodhead.moonfruit.com

Chantal Boudreau is an accountant by day and an author/illustrator during evenings and weekends, who lives by the ocean in beautiful Nova Scotia, Canada with her husband and two children. In addition to being a CMA-MBA, she has a BA with a major in English from Dalhousie University. A member of the Horror Writers Association, she writes and illustrates predominantly horror, dark fantasy and fantasy and has had several of her short stories published in anthologies. Fervor, her debut novel, a dystopian science fantasy tale, was released in March of 2011 followed by sequels Elevation, Transcendence, and Providence. Other releases include her novel, Magic University, the first in her fantasy series, Masters & Renegades, and its sequels, Casualties of War and Prisoners of Fate, as well as her Snowy Barrens Trilogy.

Armand Rosamilia is a full-time crime thriller and horror author who loves coffee, bourbon and bourbon-favored coffee.

He's written over 200 stories that are currently available, including crime thrillers, supernatural thrillers, horror, zombies, contemporary fiction, nonfiction and more. His goal is to write a good story and not worry about genre labels.

He also loves to talk in third person... because he's really that cool. Maybe.

Rich Orth...Poet for many years...works can be found in the Zombie compilations, Undead Tales & Undead Tales 2...also wrote lyrics to Cemetery Girl on the new Demonboy CD Dawn of Demon and has 4 songs on the bands upcoming CD, including This Halloween & Zombie Dance. Won a contest and now has his poem, My Night as Poe walled up in the Poe Cottage in the Bronx NY! Also has poetry featured in the anthologies, in both 21st Century Photography Vol. 3 & Vol.4. Also 5 featured poems in The Art of Darkness! Finally, for now... contributing write to AEA, https://www.facebook.com/aea.zine?fref=ts ! Wife: Lora, Brat: Cait, Husky: Sobe, Shepherd: Ligeia ! https://www.facebook.com/richorth https://www.facebook.com/groups/109463050123/?ref=ts&fref=ts https://www.facebook.com/orth.chroniclespoetry

Scott M. Goriscak began writing in high school, but it wasn't until a conversation with horror writer Clive Barker that his writing turned to the dark side. Scott published his first collection of short stories, Grim and Ghastly, in 2008. He followed up with a second collection entitled, Dead and Decaying in 2009. Also in 2009, his short story "Home Sweet Home" was selected for the 2010 Masters of Horror anthology. The following year, his story "Easy to Digest" was chosen for the 2011 Masters of Horror anthology, Damned If You Don't. In 2011, he was published in numerous anthologies: Soup of Souls, I Believe in Werewolves, Satan's toy Box: Demonic Dolls, Satan's Toy Box: Toy Soldiers, Post-Apocalyptic Raids, Spirits of the Night, and The Spirit of Poe. Angelic Knight Press published Scott's third collection of horror in 2012 entitled, Horrorism. The Horror Society Press published Scott's fourth collection, Welcome to the Dark Side in October 2012. He is currently putting the final touches on his new collection due out in October 2013 entitled Horrorgeddon, and expects to complete his first novel American Gargoyle in 2022.