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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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
