Ben Kepner discovered the blasphemous works of Mr. Lovecraft at an early age. Since that ill fated meeting, all of Ben's creative endeavors have born the indelible taint of the unknowable horrors that lurk beyond or fragile reality. He struggles daily to maintain his sanity and build a career as a writer and filmmaker in Los Angeles CA. At this year's festival, Ben's film "The End of Forever" is being featured in the shorts program. He sincerely hopes it gives you nightmares.
Bradley Sands is an author and editor of bizarro fiction. His books include TV Snorted My Brain, Sorry I Ruined Your Orgy, Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You, and others. He works as an editor for Eraserhead Press. Formerly, he was an assistant editor for Weird Tales.
Brandon Seifert is a comics writer from Fairbanks, Alaska, based in Portland, Oregon. Brandon's debut original series "Witch Doctor" was hand-picked by Robert Kirkman as the launch title for Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment at Image Comics. Brandon's Marvel Comics series "Disney Kingdoms: Seekers of the Weird" has received acclaim for its urban fantasy take on the 'lost' real-life Disneyland attraction the Museum of the Weird. Brandon and Clive Barker co-wrote the 12 issue "Hellraiser: The Dark Watch" series from BOOM! Studios. He is currently hard at work on his first novel.
During his high school years, Brian developed an interest in drawing comics and creating role-playing stories which lead him to attend Columbia College in Chicago with a focus on animation. He was required to take Movie Production courses, and after attending a Film Tech class, his became focused on developing movies rather than animating them. His first short film wasn’t created until December of 2010. Since then he has made 11 short movies. “Nefarious” was the first short movie he made under the Familiar Moon Cinema name.
Born 2nd December, 1937, Brian Lumley came into the world just nine months after the most obvious of his forebears — meaning of course a "literary" forebear, namely, H.P. Lovecraft — had departed from it.
Brian R. Hauser has spent most of his life in Ohio, which is as flat as it you've always heard it is. He holds three degrees from The Ohio State University (one in literature and two in film), because he likes definite articles. Like many Lovecraft fans of his generation, he first came to know 'Grandpa Theobald' and the Cthulhu mythos through table-top role-playing games before devouring the stories in print and watching the films in theaters, on tape, and on DVD.
Brian Yuzna has never been very far from the works of H.P. Lovecraft. He directed Bride of Re-Animator, Beyond Re-Animator, and the anthology film Necronomicon: Book of the Dead, and also produced the original fan-favorite and cult classic Re-Animator and its spiritual counterpart From Beyond. More recently, he directed the Lovecraftian Beneath Still Waters in 2005 and his latest, Amphibious: Creature of the Deep was released in 2010.
Bryan Thao Worra is an award-winning Lao-American writer. An NEAFellow in literature, he is a member of the Horror Writer Association and the Science Fiction Poetry Association. His work appears internationally, including Innsmouth Free Press, Tales of the Unanticipated, Illumen, Astropoetica, Outsiders Within, Dark Wisdom,and Mad Poets of Terra. He is the author of several books of speculative poetry On the Other Side of the Eye, BARROW, and the forthcoming DEMONSTRA. Visit him online athttp://thaoworra.blogspot.com.
Caitlín R. Kiernan is one of today’s leading authors of dark fantasy and science fiction, having published eight novels and approximately two hundred short stories, novellas, and vignettes.
Cameron Harrison was born in the Hothian wastes of Alaska, where one seemingly innocuous night, he watched The Evil Dead. Bruce Campbell awoke more than the ancient evil when he read from the Necronomicon. He also awoke a passion for horror films and filmmaking in young Cameron. His shorts and commercials have won numerous awards, and he recently served as co-producer on the documentary PRICELE$$ currently airing on PBS. He's currently working on a paranormal-parody web series called Spooked, which will air later this summer.