Del Howison is an award-winning editor, journalist, fiction author and actor. He has been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award four times (and won it once), for the Black Quill Award twice, for the Shirley Jackson Award and for the Rondo Hatton Award. Along with his wife Sue, he founded and has operated Dark Delicacies (America's Home of Horror) in Burbank for 17 years. His short story The Lost Herd was retitled The Sacrifice scripted by Mick Garris and directed by Breck Eisner and used as the premiere episode on NBC's anthology show Fear Itself. He has co-edited five books including all three of the Dark Delicacies anthologies, The Book of Lists Horror, and Midian Unmade. His nonfiction includes When Werewolves Attack from Jabberwocky. He also co-wrote (under the pseudonym of D. H. Atrial) Vampires Don't Sleep Alone with Elizabeth Barrial. His film acting appearences include Dahmer Vs Gacy, The Erotic Rites of Countess Dracula, Blood Scarab, and The Crystal Lake Massacres Revisted.

Visit his website at www.darkdel.com

SEAN PATRICK TRAVER is a native of Los Angeles, and his writing explores the hidden worlds that lurk behind the sleek facade LA presents to a casual observer. In addition to the traffic jams, the film studios, and the cookie-cutter suburbs, there are opulent courtyards and private gardens high up in the Hills, as well as blank, black-market warehouses crouched down in the Valley below. There are ritual shrines hidden near the hiking trails and secret practitioners who summon the spirits left over from a thousand years of history. Suburban shamans, rogue necromancers, criminal cabals and computer-savvy witches all populate the pages of his fiction. Sean currently has several screenplays in development. Visit him online at www.SeanPatrickTraver.com

Michael Bailey is a recipient of the Bram Stoker Award (and nine-time nominee), a multiple recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award, a five-time Shirley Jackson Award nominee, and over thirty independent publishing accolades. He has authored numerous novels, novellas, novelettes, and fiction & poetry collections. Recent work includes AGATHA'S BARN, a tie-in novella to Josh Malerman’s CARPENTER'S FARM, a collaborative novella with Erinn L. Kemper called THE CALL OF THE VOID, and SIFTING THE ASHES, a collaborative a poetry collection with Marge Simon.

He runs the small press Written Backwards and has edited and published twelve anthologies, such as THE LIBRARY OF THE DEAD, the CHIRAL MAD series, MISCREATIONS: GODS, MONSTROSITIES & OTHER HORRORS, and the critically-acclaimed YOU, HUMAN. He lives in Costa Rica where he is rebuilding his life after surviving one of the most catastrophic wildfires in California history, which is explored in his memoir SEVEN MINUTES.

Eric Miller, the Bram Stoker Award © nominated Editor of HELL COMES TO HOLLYWOOD 1 & 2 and the "18 Wheels" trucking fiction series (18 WHEELS OF HORROR and 18 WHEELS OF SCIENCE FICTION) has been working in the movie business for over twenty years as a screenwriter, producer, and many other low stress, fun-filled jobs. His produced science fiction and horror scripts include ICE SPIDERS, NIGHT SKIES, and MASK MAKER among others.

Miller also runs Big Time Books, and edits Fine Genre Fiction through the small press. He is thrilled that John Palisano's story "Happy Joe's Rest Stop" from 18 WHEELS OF HORROR won the Bram Stoker Award for best short story, honored that HELL COMES TO HOLLYWOOD was nominated for the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Anthology, and proud that two stories from HELL COMES TO HOLLYWOOD II were also nominated for Stokers: Hal Bodner's "Hot Tub" and Eric J. Guignard's "Dreams of a Little Suicide."

In his spare time he reads voraciously, writes occasionally, and watches movies of all kinds- especially romantic comedies.

Janet Joyce Holden was born in the north of England and currently lives on the outskirts of Los Angeles, California. She is the author of the Origins of Blood vampire series, Carousel and its sequel The Only Red Is Blood, and a number of short stories in various anthologies.

She enjoys writing contemporary novels of dark adventure, which have a tendency to wander into the realms of fantasy, horror and the supernatural.

Any spare time usually involves a dalliance with one or more sharp objects - sewing needles, pruning shears, cat claws, and maybe a sword or two.

Website: janetjoyceholden.com

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Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, award-winning prose writer, and Halloween expert whose work was described by the American Library Association's READERS' ADVISORY GUIDE TO HORROR as "consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening". She began her career in Hollywood, co-writing the cult favorite MEET THE HOLLOWHEADS (on which she also served as Associate Producer), but soon made a successful transition into writing short works of horror. After appearing in dozens of anthologies and magazines, including THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF DRACULA, DARK DELICACIES, THE MUSEUM OF HORRORS, and CEMETERY DANCE Magazine, in 2010 her first novel, THE CASTLE OF LOS ANGELES, was published to critical acclaim, appearing on numerous "Best of the Year" lists. Her book THE HALLOWEEN ENCYCLOPEDIA (now in an expanded second edition) was described by REFERENCE & RESEARCH BOOK NEWS as "the most complete reference to the holiday available," and Lisa has been interviewed on The History Channel and in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL as a Halloween authority. She is a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award®, a recipient of the Black Quill Award, and winner of the 2012 Grand Prize from the Halloween Book Festival. A lifelong Californian, she lives in North Hills, California, and can be found online at www.lisamorton.com.

Michael Paul Gonzalez is the author of the novels ANGEL FALLS and MISS MASSACRE’S GUIDE TO MURDER AND VENGEANCE. His newest project is the serial horror audio drama LARKSPUR UNDERGROUND, available for free on iTunes and Stitcher. A member of the Horror Writers Association, his short stories have appeared in print and online, including Great Jones Street, Lost Signals, Gothic Fantasy: Chilling Horror Stories, the Booked. Podcast Anthology, FCJR, HeavyMetal.com, and the Appalachian Undead Anthology. He resides in Los Angeles, a place full of wonders and monsters far stranger than any that live in the imagination. You can visit him online at MichaelPaulGonzalez.com