Guest

Jason V Brock is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, composer and artist, and has been published internationally in Dark Scribe Press’s Butcher Knives & Body Counts [anthology]; Dark Discoveries; Animal Magnetism [anthology]; Calliope; Ethereal Tales; The Bleeding Edge [anthology]; San Diego Comic-Con International’s Souvenir Book and several others. He has also been a model for J.K. Potter (Rude Mechanicals by Kage Baker). He is Art Director/Managing Editor for Dark Discoveries Magazine.Read more

Thomas Ligotti comments on Joe Pulver's Blood Will Have Its Season -- "Some writers one admirers and others make one want to do as they do, or try. For me, Joe Pulver is of the latter type. His imagination is so vile so much of the time that it makes me giggle with amazement. And the prose so deadly visionary. I'm grateful that the pieces in this collection are those of a fellow horror writer who has raised the ante on what it means to be such a creature." - Thomas Ligotti

Raised in rural Louisiana, Philip Simon headed to the Pacific Northwest after college and has been with Dark Horse Comics since early 2000, editing horror and sci-fi manga titles such as Blood+, Eden, MPD-Psycho, Octopus Girl, and Who Fighter. Philip helped launch Dark Horse's manhwa line and is currently co-editing Dark Horse's Mangettes program, featuring CLAMP. His wide range of projects over the years has included art books, a superhero series, more manga titles (such as the multiple award-winning Blade of the Immortal), archival collections, and adaptations of The Evil Dead and Pigeons from Hell. He is also Dark Horse's Robert E. Howard line editor, currently steering Conan the Cimmerian, Kull, and Solomon Kane. He digs zombies.Read more

David Prior has long believed that it's a director's duty to know first hand every job on a film set, which is how he justifies his rather bizarre list of credits.

While he has produced and directed several feature length documentaries for DVD, AM1200 is his first major fiction work.Read more

Maryanne Snyder is a poet and author from Seattle, whose wide-ranging interests include the history of weird fiction. Among her favorite authors are Poe, Oscar Wilde, Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith. She is currently collaborating with Wilum Pugmire on a collection of strange stories, the first of which, "The House of Idiot Children", appeared in the January/February issue of Weird Tales.

Edward Morris is a 2009 Rhysling Award nominee and 2005 British Science Fiction Association Award nominee whose work has appeared in Murky Depths, Interzone twice, and forty-size other markets in four languages and seven countries. His Lovecraft-inspired steampunk/alternate history series There Was A Crooked Man just hit at Mercury Retrograde Press in Atlanta. He will be a returning guest author/panelist at Orycon 31, and a new guest author at Bizarrocon, this fall. He is currently nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for his short story "Lotophagi" which appeared in Farrago's Wainscot #11.Read more

Mars is a multi-instrumentalist who began performing professionally at the age of 13. He has played with symphony orchestras as well as jazz, goth, and metal bands on tours through Europe, Canada, and the US. Having grown weary of the road, Mars turned his attention to composing film scores, founding Dead House Music -- dedicated to providing high quality original scores to genre films.Read more

Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire is an eccentric recluse who dreams in Seattle, Washington. He has been writing Lovecraftian weird fiction since the early 1970's and now has a number of books to his credit. His most popular books are THE FUNGAL STAIN AND OTHER DREAMS, SESQUA VALLEY & OTHER HAUNTS and DREAMS OF LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR. Last month his newest collection, WEIRD INHABITANTS OF SESQUA VALLEY, was published by Terradan Works, and Pugmire considers it a very solid collection of Mythos fiction.Read more

A prolific author in many genres, Richard A. Lupoff first encountered Howard Phillips Lovecraft on a Sunday morning in the First Baptist Church of Bordentown, New Jersey. The year was 1946. The young reader was eleven years old. The Olde Gentleman had been dead for nine years, but Richard didn’t know it.Read more

Author/illustrator Lynn Cesar is a native of New York City, having studied fine art and illustration there. Her first mature work was in holography, producing several of the field's first animated holograms (including one of a pterodactyl flying at the viewer through the film plane).Read more