The Dark Rites of Cthulhu (34 page)

Christine Morgan works the overnight shift in a psychiatric facility, which plays havoc with her sleep schedule but allows her a lot of writing time. A lifelong reader, she also reviews, beta-reads, occasionally edits and dabbles in self-publishing. Her other interests include gaming, history, superheroes, crafts, cheesy disaster movies and training to be a crazy cat lady. She can be found online at
www.christine-morgan.org

Josh Reynolds is a professional freelance writer of moderate skill and exceptional confidence. His work has appeared in anthologies such as Miskatonic River Press’ Horror for the Holidays, and in places such as Innsmouth Magazine and Lovecraft eZine. In addition to his own work, he has written for several tie-in franchises, including Gold Eagle’s Executioner line and Black Library’s Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 lines. Feel free to stop by his blog,
http://joshuamreynolds.wordpress.com/
to tell him he’s wrong about whatever it is you disagree with him about.

Edward M. Erdelac is the author of the acclaimed Judeocentric weird western series Merkabah Rider and the novels Terovolas, Buff Tea, and Coyote's Trail. His work appears in over a dozen anthologies and periodicals including most recently Steampunk Cthulhu, Swords And Mythos, World War Cthulhu, After Death, and Star Wars Insider Magazine. Born in Indiana, educated in Chicago, he now lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife and a bona fide slew of kids and cats.  News of his work can be found at
http://emerdelac.wordpress.com

John Goodrich endures the horror of retail work, then take his day out on fictional characters. Despite this, he loves life in Vermont, the last haunted bastion of Lovecraft’s New England. His weird tales have appeared in
Dead but Dreaming II
,
Undead & Unbound
,
Anthology II Inner Demons Out
, the Lovecraft E-Zine, and
Steampunk Cthulhu
.  Sample his madness and some free fiction at
qusoor.com
.

Jeffrey Thomas is an American author of weird fiction, the creator of the acclaimed milieu Punktown. Books in the Punktown universe include the short story collections
Punktown, Voices from Punktown, Punktown: Shades of Gray
(with his brother, Scott Thomas),
and
Ghosts of Punktown
. Novels in that setting include
Deadstock, Blue War, Monstrocity, Health Agent, Everybody Scream!
and
Red Cells
. Thomas's other short story collections include
Worship the Night, Thirteen Specimens, Nocturnal Emissions, Doomsdays, Terror Incognita, Unholy Dimensions, AAAIIIEEE!!!, Honey is Sweeter than Blood,
and
Encounters with Enoch Coffin
(with W. H. Pugmire). His other novels include
Letters from Hades, The Fall of Hades, Beautiful Hell, Boneland, Beyond the Door, Thought Forms, Subject 11, Lost in Darkness, The Sea of Flesh and Ash
(with his brother, Scott Thomas),
Blood Society, and A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Dealers
. Thomas lives in Massachusetts.

Scott T. Goudsward is a New England writer, focusing on the horror genre. He began writing, seriously, in 1992. The first short story sale came in 1996 from the vampire anthology
The Darkest Thirst
. His first novel sale based on the short story
Trailer Trash
and was published by Dark Heart Press. Since then Scott has co-authored two non-fiction horror books with his brother, David, edited three anthologies and has had numerous short stories published. Scott is looking forward to many releases due out in 2014, including
Horror Guide to Massachusetts
from Post Mortem Press,
Once Upon an Apocalypse
from Chaosium and several anthologies with his work in them.

Pete Rawlik has been collecting Lovecraftian fiction for forty years. In 2011 he decided to take his hobby of writing more seriously. He has since published more than twenty-five Lovecraftian stories and the novel
Reanimators
, a labor of love about life, death and the undead in Arkham during the early twentieth century. A sequel,
The Weird Company
will be released in the Fall of 2014. He lives in Royal Palm Beach, Florida, with his wife and three children. Despite the rumors he is not now and never has been a member of the Soviet Politburo.

Glynn Barrass lives in the North East of England and has been writing since late 2006. He has written over a hundred short stories, most of which have been published in the UK, USA, France, and Japan. He also co-edits anthologies for Chaosium’s
Call of Cthulhu
fiction line, also writing material for their flagship roleplaying game. 

Tom Lynch is a longtime devotee of the art of the terrifying tale. He is descended from a line of family that enjoys a good nightmare, so is it any wonder he writes stories with a darker twist? Tom’s first fiction appeared in
Horror for the Holidays
from Miskatonic River Press, and he has since appeared in the ever-eldritch
Lovecraft eZine
,
Tales of the Talisman Volume 8, Issue 4,
Undead and Unbound
, and
Eldritch Chrome
. As of this moment, future appearances include
When Darkness Calls
,
Dark Rites of Cthulhu
,
Atomic Age Cthulhu: Terrifying Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos,
and a special Carcosa-themed edition of the
Lovecraft eZine
. There are others, but the ink is not yet dry enough to divulge details.

By day, Tom is an elementary school teacher, looking to expand young minds and spends the rest of his spare time hunched over his keyboard writing scary stories.

Brian M. Sammons has been writing reviews on all things horror for more years than he’d care to admit. Wanting to give other critics the chance to ravage his work for a change, he has penned a few short stories that have appeared in such anthologies as
Arkham Tales
,
Horrors Beyond
,
Monstrous
,
Dead but Dreaming 2
,
Horror for the Holidays, Twisted Legends, Mountains of Madness, Deepest, Darkest Eden
and others. He has edited the anthologies;
Cthulhu Unbound 3
,
Undead & Unbound
,
Eldritch Chrome
,
Edge of Sundown
,
Steampunk Cthulhu, World War Cthulhu,
and
Dark Rites of Cthulhu
. He is currently far too busy for any sane man. For more about this guy that neighbors describe as “such a nice, quiet man” you can check out his very infrequently updated webpage here:
brian_sammons.webs.com
      and you can follow him on Twitter @BrianMSammons.

Don Webb teaches SF writing for UCLA Extension and has over 70 stories on "Best of" lists since 1986.  He has books from St, Martins, Inner Traditions and Wildside Press.  He lives in Austin, TX with video artist Guiniviere Webb and two tuxedo cats. Drop him a note at
[email protected]

Sam Stone is the award-winning author of The Vampire Gene Series. Her latest works include a horror novel,
The Darkness Within
, two Steampunk short novels ˗
Zombies At Tiffany’s, Kat On A Hot Tin Airship
˗ and a Doctor Who spin off screenplay called
White Witch of Devil’s End
.

A prolific and eclectic genre writer, Sam’s short fiction has appeared in many collections and anthologies as well as her own collection
Zombies in New York and Other Bloody Jottings
. She is currently working on the second book of a post-apocalyptic trilogy, a modern day crime novel and a Victorian supernatural thriller.

Sam lives in North Wales in a vampire lair under Rhuddlan Castle with her partner David, her daughter Linzi and a Renfield called Frazer.

www.sam-stone.com

CJ Henderson’s second published novel was a mythos novel and it seems he never looked back. Creator of supernatural investigators Teddy London and Piers Knight, reviver of Inspector Legrasse and Carl Kolchak, he has had scores more books published as well as hundreds and hundreds of short stories, with many more mythos outings taking place all along the way. He is also the author of
Baby's First Mythos
, an act which was condemned vehemently by more than one aspiring televangelist, but which got a big thumbs up from Jesus the Nazarene, so we think it balances out.

Robert M. Price (Selma, NC), professor of scriptural studies at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary, is the editor (with Jeffery Jay Lowder) of
The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave
and the
Journal of Higher Criticism
. He is also the author of
Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms; The Paperback Apocalypse: How the Christian Church Was Left Behind; The Reason-Driven Life: What Am I Here on Earth For?
and many other works.

Dr. Price is an editor of Lovecraftian stories, articles/criticism, and introductions, in magazines like the entertaining and essential
“Crypt of Cthulhu
”, and his short stories appear in many volumes of Lovecraftian fiction.