Best New Zombie Tales Trilogy (117 page)

BEV VINCENT ~ Bev is the author of
The Road to the Dark Tower
, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, and
The Stephen King Illustrated Companion
, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and a Bram Stoker Award. His short fiction has appeared in places like
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Doctor Who: Destination Prague, Evolve, When the Night Comes Down, Borderlands 5
and
The Blue Religion
. He is a contributing editor with
Cemetery Dance
magazine, a member of the Storytellers Unplugged blogging community, and a book reviewer for Onyx Reviews. He lives in Texas and can be found online at bevvincent.com.

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JAMES ROY DALEY ~ is a writer, editor, and musician. He studied film at the Toronto Film School, music at Humber College, and English at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Terror Town, Into Hell, 13 Drops of Blood, Zombie Kong, and The Dead Parade. In 2009 he founded Books of the Dead Press, where he enjoyed immediate success working with many of the biggest names in horror. He edited anthologies such as Zombie Kong - Anthology, Best New Vampire Tales, Classic Vampire Tales, and the Best New Zombie Tales series.

RIO YOUERS ~ Rio is the British Fantasy Award–nominated author of
Everdead, Old Man Scratch
and
Mama Fish
. His new novel,
End Times
, will be released by PS Publishing in the fall of 2010, with a short story collection to follow in early 2011. He lives in Canada with his wife Emily.

STEVEN A. ROMAN ~ Steven is the bestselling author of the novels
Final Destination: Dead Man’s Hand
and
X-Men: The Chaos Engine Trilogy
. His short fiction has appeared in the anthologies
The Dead Walk Again!, Tales of the Shadowmen 4: Lords of Terror, Doctor Who: Short Trips: Farewells, If I Were an Evil Overlord, Untold Tales of Spider-Man
, and
The Ultimate Hulk
. His current projects include the serialized horror comic
Lorelei: A Pool of Blood
for French publisher Organic Comix, and the upcoming dark-fantasy novel series
The Saga of Pandora Zwieback
for Starwarp Concepts. He lives in Queens, NY, where he’s been fortifying his basement for the sure-to-happen zombie apocalypse.

TIM WAGGONER ~Tim is the author of the
Nekropolis
series of urban fantasy novels. All told he's published over twenty novels and two short story collections. He teaches creative writing at Sinclair Community College and in Seton Hill University’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing Popular Fiction program. You can visit him on the web at www.timwaggoner.com.

NATE KENYON ~ Nate grew up in a small town in Maine. His debut novel,
Bloodstone
, was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist and P&E Horror Novel of the Year award winner.
The Reach
was also a Stoker Award Finalist, received a starred Publishers Weekly review, and is in development as a major feature film. His third novel,
The Bone Factory
, was called "masterful" by Booklist. His fourth novel,
Sparrow Rock
, will be released in limited edition by Bad Moon Books and in paperback by Leisure Books in May 2010, and his novel
StarCraft Ghost: Spectres
, based on the bestselling videogame franchise by Blizzard Entertainment, will be released by Pocket Books around the end of the year. Kenyon's sci fi novella
Prime
was released from Apex in July 2009. He has had stories published in a number of magazines and anthologies including
Terminal Frights, Shroud Magazine, Northern Haunts, Monstrous
, and
Legends of the Mountain State 2
. Four of his stories were featured in the Dark Arts anthology
When the Night Comes Down
. He lives in New England with his children and their ferocious dog, Bailey, where he is at work on his next novel. Visit Nate online at www.natekenyon.com.

DAVID NIALL WILSON ~ David has been writing and publishing horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction since the mid-eighties. An ordained minister, once President of the Horror Writer's Association and recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for poetry and short fiction, as well as being nominated for long fiction and non-fiction, his novels include
Maelstrom
,
The Mote in Andrea's Eye
,
Deep Blue, the Grails Covenant Trilogy, Star Trek Voyager: Chrysalis, Except You Go Through Shadow, This is My Blood, Ancient Eyes
and the upcoming supernatural mystery novel
Vintage Soul: Volume I of the DeChance Chronicles
. The Stargate Atlantis novel
Brimstone
, written with Patricia Lee Macomber is due in 2010. He has over 150 short stories published in anthologies, magazines, and five collections, the most recent of which were
Defining Moments,
published in 2007 by WFC Award winning Sarob Press, and the currently available
Ennui & Other States of Madness
, from Dark Regions Press. His work has appeared in and is due out in various anthologies and magazines. David lives and loves with Patricia Lee Macomber in the historic William R. White House in Hertford, NC with their children, Billy, Stephanie, and Katie, David’s mother Jean, and occasionally his boys Zach and Zane.

DEREK GUNN ~ Derek lives in Dublin, Ireland with his wife and three children and is the author of four novels. His post-apocalyptic thriller series,
Vampire Apocalypse
, has been widely praised on both sides of the Atlantic in the genre media and it is published by Black Death Books. The three books in the series are:
A World Torn Asunder
(2006),
Descent into Chaos
(2008) and
Fallout
(2009). Derek also released
The Estuary
, published by Permuted Press in 2009, which is available in Borders and Waldenbooks stores throughout the USA as well as from online booksellers. Derek's first book is under option for film and an adaptation is currently in active development as a major movie. Also, the graphic novel rights to Derek's
Vampire Apocalypse
series have been picked up by a U.S. indie publisher; the first graphic novel is due out in 2011. Derek is a member of, and a contributing editor to, the International Thriller Writers Association and a member of the Horror Writers Association. Visit his website at www.DerekGunn.com.

NARRELLE M. HARRIS ~ Narrelle’s first novel was the crime/thriller,
Fly By Night
(2004), which was nominated for a Ned Kelly Award. Her 2005 novel,
Witch Honour
, published in the U.S. by Five Star Science Fiction, was short-listed for the George Turner Prize for Science Fiction and Fantasy in 1998. Its sequel, short listed for the same award the following year, was published in 2007.
The Opposite of Life
was released in early 2008 and is the first of a proposed trilogy. The second in the series is to be released in 2011. Narrelle is currently settled in the marvellous town of Melbourne with her husband Tim Richards, a travel writer and author of Mind the Gap, and her cat Petra, who hasn't written anything…yet.

PETE MESLING ~ Pete's silhouette can, on rare occasions, be glimpsed prowling the watery byways of Seattle, Washington. An affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association, Pete has sold fiction to such publications as Doorways, Black Ink Horror, and two of the Potter’s Field anthologies. In fact,
The Worst is Yet to Come
originally appeared in Potter's Field 3. Mr. Mesling also writes scary comic books for Night Rail Press and couldn't be giddier over the company he's keeping in this terrifying anthology. Keep up to date on his fictitious (and musical!) pursuits at www.PeteMesling.com.

T. F. DAVENPORT ~ Tristan lives in California, where he's studying for a doctorate in cognitive science. In his spare time, he would be writing more stories, but he has no spare time, because he's studying for a doctorate in cognitive science.

THOMAS S. ROCHE ~ Primarily known as an acclaimed writer of erotic short stories with numerous contributions to the Best American Erotica series and the Best New Erotica series, among others, Thomas also pens horror, crime, fantasy and occasionally science fiction. He edited three volumes of the Noirotica series of erotic crime-noir fiction and co-edited four horror/fantasy anthologies:
Sons of Darkness, Brothers of the Night, In the Shadow of the Gargoyle
and
Graven Images
. His horror stories have appeared in more than 50 anthologies, including most recently
The Sweetest Kiss: Ravishing Vampire Erotica
. He recently completed a horror stage play,
Sun Rises On Bedlam,
and is at work on a zombie novel. He can be found at www.ThomasRoche.com.

MYRRYM DAVIES ~ Myrrym is an up-and-coming horror writer from the mountains of Northeast Georgia. She is a member of The Dark Fiction Guild, a Choate Road writer, and an editor and columnist for Graveside Tales Publishing. Myrrym’s work runs the gamut of the horror genre, from comedy/horror blends to more disturbing tales of personal terror. Her short fiction has been featured in various online publications and print anthologies, including
For the Love of Monsters, The Devil’s Food, Horrorology
and
Ladies and Gentlemen of Horror
, 2010.

CODY GOODFELLOW ~ Cody has written three books with John Skipp––
Jake's Wake, The Day Before
and
Spore
––and three without––
Radiant Dawn, Ravenous Dusk
and
Perfect Union
. His short fiction has appeared in
Cemetery Dance, Black Static
and
Dark Discoveries
, and is collected in
Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars
. He lives in Los Angeles.

JOHN EVERSON ~ John is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels
Covenant
,
Sacrifice
,
The 13th
and
Siren
, and the short story collections
Creeptych
,
Needles & Sins
,
Vigilantes of Love
and
Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions
. He shares a deep purple den in Naperville, Illinois with a cockatoo and cockatiel, a disparate collection of fake skulls, twisted skeletal fairies, Alan Clark illustrations and a large stuffed Eeyore. There's also a mounted Chinese fowling spider named Stoker courtesy of Charlee Jacob, an ever-growing shelf of custom mix CDs and an acoustic guitar that he can't really play but that his son Shaun likes to hear him beat on anyway. Sometimes his wife Geri is surprised to find him shuffling through more public areas of the house, but it's usually only to brew another cup of coffee. In order to avoid the onerous task of writing, he holds down a regular job at a medical association, records pop-rock songs in a hidden home studio, experiments with the insatiable culinary joys of the jalapeno, designs photo collage art book covers for a variety of small presses, loses hours in expanding an array of gardens and chases frequent excursions into the bizarre visual headspace of '70s euro-horror DVDs with a shot of Makers Mark and a tall glass of Newcastle. For information on his fiction, art and music, visit John Everson: Dark Arts at www.JohnEverson.com.

JW SCHNARR ~ J. W. is the evil mastermind behind Northern Frights Publishing. He currently resides in Calgary, Alberta Canada with his daughter and a grumpy turtle. When not writing, editing or publishing, he can be found scheming. And watching sports. He is the Editor of the anthology Shadows of the Emerald City. Look for his Short Fiction collection
Things Fall Apart
in 2010.

MONICA J. O’ROURKE ~ Monica has published more than 75 short stories in magazines such as
Postscripts, Fangoria, Nasty Piece of Work, Flesh & Blood, Nemonymous, Brutarian
, and
Cthulhu Sex
, and anthologies such as
The Mammoth Book of the Kama Sutra, Best of Horrorfind
, and
These Guns for Hire
. She is the author of two novels,
Poisoning Eros
, co-written with Wrath James White, and
Suffer the Flesh
, and the collection
Experiments in Human Nature
. She lives in NYC.

JAMES NEWMAN ~ James lives in North Carolina with his wife, Glenda, and their two sons, Jamie and Jacob. James has several published novels to his name, including
Animosity, The Wicked
, and the coming-of-age fan favorite
Midnight Rain
.

KEN GOLDMAN ~ Ken is an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association, has homes on the Main Line in Pennsylvania and at the Jersey shore depending upon his mood and the track of the sun. His stories appear in over 525 independent press publications in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia with over twenty due for publication in 2010. His book of short stories,
You Had Me At ARRGH!!: Five Uneasy Pieces by Ken Goldman
(Sam's Dot Publishers) remains an all-time top ten best seller at The Genre Mall where (shameless plug alert) it can be purchased. Australia's Precision Pictures has contracted Ken's short story “The Keeper” to be filmed (hopefully) during 2010, and Damnation books has contracted his novella
Desiree
for publication during 2010. Ken would be famous except for the fact nobody seems to know who he is.

MORT CASTLE ~ Mort is editor or author of a dozen books, including Writing Horror: The Horror Writers Association Handbook, published by Writer's Digest Books (editor);
Moon On The Water
, a short story collection, accepted for the Pulitzer and Carl Sandburg competitions, from DarkTales Publications; and the horror novels
Cursed Be The Child
and
The Strangers
. With over 400 "shorter things," published in anthologies and magazines, Castle is the only living author to have work in all four of the acclaimed MASQUES collections, edited by Jerry Williamson, a distinction he hopes to maintain for a lengthy period. Forthcoming are
Nations Of The Living, Nations Of The Dead
, a collection of "Mort Myths," from Imaginary Worlds, and, from the same publisher, a CD:
Buckeye Jim In Egypt
.