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Paul Dale Anderson

Anderson is the author of
Claw Hammer, Superstitions, Daddy's Home, Effigies, Games, Sidewinders,
and
The Devil Made Me Do It.
The Illinois resident's short stories have appeared in
Shock Rock, Hotter Blood, Masques III, Best of Horror Show, Deathrealm,
and
New Blood,
among others.

P. D. Cacek

Colorado's Cacek is an active contributor of short fiction to small-press magazines, as well as
Pulphouse, Deathrealm,
and
Bizarre Bazaar.
Her anthology story credits include
Deathport, Newer York,
and
Journeys to the Twilight Zone II.

J. L. Comeau

Comeau is a writer and writing instructor whose work has appeared in
Hottest Blood, Women of the West, Borderlands 2
and
3, Year's Best Horror XIX, Best New Horror 2, 3,
and
5,
and others. The District of Columbia resident is currently working on a novel.

James Crawford

New Yorker Crawford has been writing since he was very young, with earlier material appearing in comics fanzines and
Vampirella.
This is his first professionally published prose fiction.

Michael Garrett

Michael Garrett is coeditor of the
Hot Blood
series and author of the suspense thriller
Keeper.
His work has recently appeared in
Shock Rock II
and
Fear Itself.
He is an instructor for the Writer's Digest School and teaches writing seminars at college campuses across the Southeast. He resides in Alabama with his wife and children.

Jeff Gelb

Gelb is a California-based editor of the
Shock Rock
and
Fear Itself
anthologies, and coeditor of the
Hot Blood
series. He is the author of the horror novel
Specters,
and, as a rabid comic book collector and historian, is a frequent contributor to magazines about comic books such as
Comics Buyers Guide, Comics Interview,
and
Overstreet's Gold & Silver.
His short fiction has appeared in such anthologies as
Scare Care
and
100 Vicious Little Vampires.

Stephen R. George

Canada's George is the author of a dozen novels, including
Torment, Bloody Valentine, Deadly Vengeance, Nightscape, Near Dead,
and
The Forgotten.
His most recent novel is
Seeing Eye.

Ronald Kelly

Kelly, a native of Tennessee, is the author of eight novels, including
The Possession, Fear,
and most recently,
Blood Kin.
He has been published in numerous anthologies, and his short fiction has been featured in his audio collection,
Dark Dixie: Tales of Southern Horror.

Edward Lee

Lee is the author of nine horror novels,
Ghouls, Succubi,
and
Creekers
among them. His most recent novel is
Sacrifice.
His short fiction has appeared in
Cemetery Dance, Bizarre Bazaar, Dark Seductions,
and
Voice in the Night,
plus a chapbook called
Sex, Truth & Reality.
The Maryland resident is currently writing an SF novel,
The Epicycle,
a collaborative horror novel with t. Winter-Damon called
Shifters,
and a horror epic called
The Bighead,
which he says he hopes will be the grossest book ever written.

Bentley Little

Californian Little is a respected D. H. Lawrence scholar who claims to have worked in various carnivals and strip clubs throughout the Southwest. He is the author of
The Mailman, Death Instinct, The Summoning,
and the Stoker award-winning
The Reve-lation.
His latest novel is
University.

Rex Miller

Butcher,
next in the series of Chaingang novels, was published in December '94. Missouri's Miller is the author of eleven novels, two nonfiction books, two teleplays, and some fifty short stories, including ones in
Fear Itself,
the
Hot Blood
books,
Shock Rock II, Forbidden Acts,
and a forthcoming anthology featuring Will Eisner's
The Spirit.

Billie Sue Mosiman

Mosiman, a Texas resident, is the author of five novels of suspense, including
Night Cruise, Slice,
and
Deadly Affections.
Upcoming are
Widow
and
Suddenly.
She is the author of upwards of seventy short stories in
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Hard-boiled, Pulphouse, Horror Show,
and more. Her anthology sales include
Invitation to Murder, Psycho-Paths, Dark Crimes 2, Predators, Monsters in Our Midst, Frankenstein: The Monster Wakes,
and
Santa Clues.

Michael Newton

Michael Newton has published 112 books since 1977, with eleven more "in the can" and pending release from various publishers by 1996. His work includes fifty-two episodes of the Mack Bolan series, plus nonfiction volumes like
Raising Hell
and
Silent Rage.
Newton lives in Indiana.

Kathryn Ptacek

Kathryn Ptacek has written eighteen novels, edited three anthologies, including
Women of Darkness,
and has published two dozen stories. She is also the editor of
The Gila Queen's Guide to Markets,
a comprehensive market newsletter for writers and authors, and works full-time at the
New Jersey Herald.

Wayne Allen Sallee

The fiction of Illinois resident Sallee has been reprinted in
DAW's Year's Best Horror Stories
annually since 1986. He's won Stoker awards for novelette, short story, and for his first novel,
The Holy Terror.
His fiction has appeared in such anthologies as
100 Vicious Little Vampires, Love in Vein,
and
Nightmares on Elm Street.
Sallee is currently at work on several novels, including
Mamie's, Near Morning,
and
The Skull Carpenters.

Brinke Stevens

California's Stevens is a world-renowned Scream Queen who's starred in over two dozen horror films, including
Teenage Exorcist,
for which she wrote the screenplay,
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity,
and the upcoming
Mommy.
She has been a production executive for
Weird Tales,
staff writer for
Monsterland,
and correspondent for
Femmes Fatales.
She is the heroine of her own comic book series, a star of trading cards, and has several model kits based on her various horror personae. She's currently writing erotic horror short stories, a new movie script, and a children's book.

John F. D. Taff

Taff has been published in
Shock Rock 2, Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, 2 AM, Midnight Zoo,
and
Aberrations.
His first published short story was awarded an honorable mention in the
Sixth Annual Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
He lives in Missouri, where he is working on his second novel.

Larry Tritten

California's Tritten is a veteran magazine editor and writer whose credits include
Amazing, Azimov's, Cosmopolitan, F&SF, New Yorker, Harper's, National Lampoon, Playboy, Redbook, Twilight Zone, Spy,
and
Vanity Fair.

Scott H. Urban

Urban's stories, poems, and commentaries have appeared through the dark fantasy small press in publications like
After Hours, Doppelganger, Fantasy and Terror,
and
Thin Ice.
His paperback appearances include
Fear Itself
and
Shock Rock II.
The North Carolina resident is at work on his first novel,
Crevices.

J. N. Williamson

Indiana's Williamson is a veteran horror novelist whose fifty-three works include
Don't Take Away the Light, The Book of Webster's,
and
Bloodlines.
He is no less prodigious in short stories, with over 140 works appearing in anthologies including
Hot Blood, Hotter Blood, Werewolf,
and
Vampire Detectives,
along with magazines like
Twilight Zone, Weird Tales,
and
Night Cry.