Author
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 2005 British Science Fiction Association Award nominee whose work has appeared in Murky Depths, Interzone, AeonSF, Arkham Tales and many other markets around the world. He currently freelance-writes and -edits out of SE Portland.
Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire is an eccentric recluse who dreams in Seattle, Washington. His books include Sesqua Valley and Other Haunts, Dreams of Lovecraftian Horror, and The Fungal Stain. He is currently writing a new collection for Hippocampus Press, and collaborating on a book of weird fiction with Maryanne K. Snyder; the first of their stories, "The House of Idiot Children", appeared this year in Weird Tales.
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.
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).
Michael Shea was born in Los Angeles—in Culver City, across the street from the huge north wall of MGM Studio's main lot. There, the billboard-size movie ads greeted his infant eyes, and taught him awe and a love of grand narratives. An inveterate hitch hiker before, during, and after his college years, he encountered, in a flophouse up in Juneau, Alaska, a book of pure Fantasy entitled The Eyes of The Overworld.
S. T. Joshi (b. 1958) is a leading authority on H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken, and other writers, mostly in the realms of supernatural and fantasy fiction. He has edited corrected editions of the works of Lovecraft, several annotated editions of Bierce and Mencken, and has written such critical studies as The Weird Tale (1990) and The Modern Weird Tale (2001). His award-winning biography, H. P.
Scott Connors has been twice nominated for the International Horror Guild Award for his scholarly and critical writings. Along with Ron Hilger, he is editing the definitive edition of Smith's fantastic tales for Night Shade Books, the fourth volume of which is now at the printers.
Adam Niswander is the author of The Shaman Cycle, a series of novels telling of a Great Gathering of Native American medicine-people, who are called on to put down ancient Lovecraftian evils brought forth from olden days by careless modern men. The Charm relates the story of a demon dust-devil freed from a centuries-long imprisonment by a careless Arizona archeologist.
Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., a life-long fan of pulp horror, fantasy, hard noir, and science fiction, found himself exiled from a happy anonymity as of 1999 when Chaosium, Inc. published his highly acclaimed Cthulhu Mythos novel Nightmare’s Disciple. His effectively chilling fiction and verse has appeared in collections including The Book of Eibon, Nameless Cults, Lin Carter’s Anton Zarnak, Occult Detective, Rehearsals for Oblivion, Cthulhu’s Creatures, and many others. He has received several honorable mentions in Ellen Datlow’s Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror.
