Mary Jane Hansen is a writer/actor whose work has been featured in theatres throughout the U.S. and internationally. She adapted Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep" for the screen and appears in the film as Asenath Waite. Audiobook versions of her plays have been nominated for Audie Awards and The Benjamin Franklin Award. Among her plays are A Legend of Sleepy Hollow, American Soup and Letters From A Window in the Sky. Her poetry has been featured in publications by the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society.
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 2009 issue of Weird Tales.
Matt was so impressed by the original Whisperer trailer that he jumped at the chance to be in the full-length film. In addition to encountering Lovecraft's Mi-Go, Matt has run afoul of giant piranhas, psychic Nazis, a ‘mega’ shark, Martians, Moby Dick, and several other curious beings in more than 300 movies, plays, commercials, videos, and voiceovers. His real life adventures have led him into trekking jungles, crossing the Himalayas (in winter!), and eating dog with the hill tribes of North Vietnam.
Michael Cisco is the author of The Divinity Student, The Tyrant, The San Veneficio Canon, and a contributor to The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Descredited Diseases, Leviathan III and IV, and Album Zutique. In 1999, his debut work received the International Horror Writers Guild Award for best first novel. His nonfiction appears in reference books published by Chelsea House and the Gale Group.
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Michael Entler is the creative force behind The Amelus, which has existed in some form or other since about 1989. First starting with hybrid music multimedia projects, and later moving into live private events that focused on narrative science fiction and philosophical horror that could be described roughly as artsy haunted house type shenanigans.
Its current array and arrangement is to be the more sinister sibling to the collective known as Monsieur Soeur, and work on projects that require a more unsettling touch and tone.
Michael Reaves is the author of two dozen books, 400+ teleplays, 6 features, plus short stories, graphic novels, comic books, and on and on ... He’s written for STAR TREK -- THE NEXT GENERATION, HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, THE TWILIGHT ZONE (No, the 80s version), THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, CAPTAIN POWER AND THE SOLDIERS OF THE FUTURE, and other shows with very long names. It’s safe to say that, if you were alive during the 80’s and you didn’t go outside and play like your mother said to, you’re now ripe for joining his legion of cartoon zombies.
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.
Michael Swertfager lived a normal life in the rat race of the Silicon Valley until he attended the 2005 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. That weekend his interest in H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe shifted from a hobby to an obsession. He has since been consumed by an unyielding desire to document the evil deeds of Edgar Allan Poe's actions during eight horrific nights in 1842. With years of study in animation and art, Michael stepped away from his domestic world and entered the craze of the artist.
Michael Tice writes poetry, fiction, role-playing game material, and LARPs. Many of his projects have a connection with the works of H.P. Lovecraft. His most recent short story Inlibration appeared in Eldritch Chrome, an anthology of Lovecraftian cyberpunk published by Chaosium..Although it's safer for everyone if Mike stays away from cameras, his first appearance at the H.P.