John Shirley is an author, screenwriter, television writer, comics writer, singer, and songwriter. With over 40 novels and 8 short story collections to his name, he won the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association for his collection, Black Butterflies: A Flock on the Dark Side. His novels include Demons, Stormland, Cellars, A Sorcerer of Atlantis, and Wetbones.
Joe Pulver authored the novels, The Orphan Palace (Chomu Press 2010) and Nightmare’s Disciple, and he has written many short stories that have appeared in magazines and anthologies, including “Weird Fiction Review”, “Crypt of Cthulhu”, and “Lovecraft eZine”, Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, S. T. Joshi’s Black Wings I and III, Ross Lockhart's Book of Cthulhu, and many anthologies by Robert M. Price.
Joshua Hoffine is a world renown Horror photographer. His popular images dealing with childhood fears have been published in over 150 countries, resulting in a massive cult following for his meticulously staged photographic works.
Jovanka Vuckovic is the Editor-in-Chief of Rue Morgue Magazine, the world's leading horror in culture and entertainment publication. She has been featured as a genre expert on many documentaries and television shows and has contributed essays to several publications and books on the subject of genre cinema. Vuckovic bleeds horror and adores H.P. Lovecraft so much she even has a portrait of him tattooed on her flesh.
Julia Fair started her career working on the most successful independent film of all time, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. As the “history fabricator” for the “Sticks and Stones” special that aired on the Sci-Fi channel, Julia helped to create the “legend” upon which the Blair Witch was based.
Raised in the Northeast on a steady diet of macabre and arcane fiction, Kurt Lustgarten owes much of his storytelling style (and neuroses) to the work of H.P. Lovecraft. His screenplay based on William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki the Ghost-Finder was inspired by a love of supernatural horror and the detective/adventure genres. He is currently developing the sci-fi thriller Futures with writer Jesse Mittelstadt (Across the Hall), which Kurt is attached to direct.
Laird Barron's work has appeared in places such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, SCIFICTION, Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Lovecraft Unbound! and The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy. It has also been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies. His debut collection, The Imago Sequence & Other Stories, and his most recent collection, Occultation, were published by Night Shade. Mr.
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).She came to the San Francisco to join the Mission district company Multiplex, and there continued her work in holography. After her marriage to writer Michael Shea and the birth of their two children, she turned to the finishing arts, gaining a reputation in Northern California for murals and faux finishing.
Marc Laidlaw is the author of six novels, including The International Horror Guild Award winner, The 37th Mandala. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies since the 1970s. In 1997, he joined Valve Software as a writer and creator of Half-Life, which has become one of the most popular videogame series of all time. He lives in Washington State with his wife and two daughters, and continues to writes occasional short fiction between playing too many videogames.
Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Artistic Director are several of the creative hats worn by Mark. Although he has 60+ acting credits, received numerous honors, and been associated with critically acclaimed award-winning stage productions, Mark is most recognized for the HP Lovecraft cult horror films -- The Unnamable and its sequel (as Randolph Carter). Currently, he is on the fast-track to record Lovecraft stories for the public's listening pleasure, and in the developmental stage for a one-man show about HP.