Nancy Holder

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Nancy Holder is a New York Times bestselling author of horror and dark fantasy . She has written dozens of "tie-in" projects for such universes as Beauty and the Beast, Teen Wolf, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Saving Grace, Hulk, Hellboy, Sherlock Holmes, and many others.

Natalie Ewert

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Life long artist Natalie Ewert wears many different hats creatively, working in sculpture, jewelry, painting, leather tooling and illustration. With a love of the whimsical and the bizarre, her work resides in hundreds of collections on 5 continents. Her favorite creative inspiration comes from animals, fantasy, macabre and the sacred arts. Specializing in one-of-a-kind pieces, she holds great respect for classic artisans and the beauty their toil produces.

Nate Pedersen

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Nate Pedersen is the editor of The Starry Wisdom Library anthology forthcoming September 2014 from PS Publishing. He will also be contributing to the Leaves of a Necronomicon anthology, edited by Joe Pulver. He lives with his wife April Tucholke - a young adult horror author - in Bend, Oregon, where he works as a librarian, journalist, and editor.

Nicholas Kubik

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Born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, the city which Lovecraft considered nearest to being America's literary capital, Nicholas T. Kubik's young imagination was nourished by the creations of Shelly, Stoker and Lovecraft.

Nick Mamatas

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Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including the Lovecraftian titles Move Under Ground and The Damned Highway (written with Brian Keene). His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, Tor.com, Weird Tales, the anthologies Lovecraft Unbound and Dark Wings II, and many other venues. Nick's fiction and editorial work has been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and Shirley Jackson awards.

Nicolas Simonin

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Nicolas Simonin ("DERAILED") is a native of France currently living in San Diego since 2010. He began his professional screenwriting career in Europe where he worked on TV shows like (R.I.S.—French C.S.I. or Lea Parker— an "Alias" spy show) for five major networks in France. In addition, he worked in the feature movie industry (EUROPACORP) as a screenwriter, professional reader and story analyst. He spent five years as a TV screenwriter and 18 months as a story coverage reader for Europacorp.

Norman Tumolva

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Norman Tumolva is a writer/director from Seattle, WA. He is a fan of science fiction/fantasy and hopes one day to direct feature films of those genres (though he is open to other genres as well). As a child he spent a lot of time following his big brother around with a camera and filming numerous family functions. Norman fell in love with the dramatic arts during those early years and even filmed himself acting out scenes from various movies. Norman has spent the past 4 years in various roles on film sets hoping to learn even more about how to create a good film.

Peter Allas (Det. Grimaldi, Cast a Deadly Spell)

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Peter Allas was born in Chicago and raised in NYC where he acquired his love for acting. After studying at Boston U. & Fordham at Lincoln Center he burst on to the NY theatre scene as “Cliff” in “The Woolgatherer” by William Mastrosimone. Recently he received a 2010 Helen Hayes Nomination (DC Tony 's) for his performance as “Teach” in “American Buffalo” by David Mamet.His TV & film career began back in the Windy City with the recurring role of “News editor Alan Weissman”:on Michael Mann's “Crime Story”and has since performed in over 100 films and Television shows.

Philip Simon

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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.

Rick Tillman

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A lifelong Lovecraft fan, Rick can be found lurking about any number of eldritch Seattle haunts, committing unspeakable acts of depravity. A few of these blasphemous creations even see the light of day, such as the shorts and feature films he has been a part of that have shown at the HPLFF since 2003. His most recent cinematic outing is this year’s “The Shunned House,” a creepy little tale based on the Old Gent’s story, which he produced and scored.

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