• Scott Virtes

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    Scott Virtes has had over 600 stories & poems published since 1986. His works have appeared in Nature, Analog, Dreams & Nightmares, Hungur, and many more. Film work includes "Master and Commander", "Voice of the Dead", weird short films, and some secret projects in the works. After dark, he may be seen on playing guitar in the San Diego area.

  • Shawna Gore

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    Shawna Gore has been working at the Dark Horse Comics factory of joy and entertainment since 1997. After serving as Dark Horse's publicist for five years, she left the comics industry and briefly flirted with a career in music before regaining her sanity and accepting an offer to rejoin the Dark Horse staff as an editor. Quickly approaching her sixth year as an editor, Shawna is one of Dark Horse's more horror-focused editors, but she also likes comic books about talking bunnies.

  • Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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    Silvia Moreno-Garcia's speculative fiction has been collected in This Strange Way of Dying and has appeared in a number of anthologies, including Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing and The Book of Cthulhu. Her debut novel, Signal to Noise, will be published in 2015 by Solaris. Silvia has edited several anthologies, including Dead North: Canadian Zombie Fiction and Fungi (with Orrin Grey).

  • Stan!

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    Stan! is a writer, cartoonist, and game designer who has been unnaturally drawn to the Lovecraftian Mythos for an unearthly long time. Through Super Genius Games, he is the author and publisher of a handful of official Call of Cthulhu products. His children's book, The Littlest Shoggoth, is just in from the printers, and he'd love to share it with you. Visit Stan! online at www.stannex.com the Home of All Things Stan!

  • Stanley C. Sargent

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    Before an audience at last year’s festival, scholar S.T. Joshi declared W.H. Pugmire and Stanley C. Sargent are “two of the finest authors of Cthulhu Mythos fiction,” and later told a group of authors that Sargent’s “Black Brat of Dunwich” is among the top ten Mythos stories ever written. Sargent’s award-winning tales and novellas of the supernatural, historical horror, fantasy, humor-horror and sci-fi genres have been widely printed and reprinted in various magazines, chapbooks and anthologies.

  • Stephen Blackehart (Charlie Tower, The Whisperer in Darkness)

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    Stephen Blackehart was trained in England at the prestigious London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and in New York by legendary teacher Uta Hagen. Despite countless New York & London stage performances, he became prominent as a cult film actor, performing in such B-Movie classics as Tromeo & Juliet, The Land that Time Forgot, Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, and many others.

  • Stuart Gordon

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    In 1985, winning the Critics’ Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Stuart Gordon surprised audiences with his first feature film RE-ANIMATOR based on stories by H.P. Lovecraft. With its stunning box office success, RE-ANIMATOR became the first of a series of Lovecraft inspired films utilizing screenplays by longtime writing partner Dennis Paoli. They include: FROM BEYOND (1986), CASTLE FREAK, based on “The Outsider” (1994), DAGON (2001) and DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE (2005) which was produced for THE MASTERS OF HORROR television series.

  • Syl Disjonk

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    Syl Disjonk lives in an hypercube in the Montreal Interzone. He owns a Certification of Insanity from Arkham Asylum for his sleep terror disorder. He has been attacked by dark ones in his dreams since his childhood. He still goes through an art therapy to keep his mind in place. He has made much progress in recent years and now manage to survive by using his skills in the field of graphic design and visual effects. Many of his personal artworks recall the universe of H.P.

  • T.E. Grau

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    T.E. Grau is an author of Weird, Lovecraftian, and Dark Fiction, whose work has been published in numerous anthologies, including Dead But Dreaming 2, The Aklonomicon, Urban Cthulhu: Nightmare Cities, Horror for the Holidays, Dark Fusions: Where Monsters Lurk, Suction Cup Dreams: An Octopus Anthology, and Mark of the Beast, among others.

  • Thomas Phinney

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    Thomas Phinney is a typographer and type designer who also happens to be very fond of HP Lovecraft and the Call of Cthulhu RPG. He combined these interests last year in a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund a set of Lovecraftian fonts inspired by the long-dead typeface used by Call of Cthulhu. He is currently putting finishing touches on this font family and pondering an encore. Thomas worked on fonts for Adobe (1997–2008) before joining Portland's Extensis (2009).

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