Michael Arnzen (http://gorelets.com) is an award-winning author of horror and dark suspense fiction, a poet, and an English professor. His trophy case includes four Bram Stoker Awards and an International Horror Guild Award for his often funny, always disturbing stories. The best of these appear in the Bram Stoker Award-winning career-length retrospective, Proverbs for Monsters, which Dread Central called "a guided tour of insanity and the macabre, with a few moments of touching grace combined with repulsive terror...[which] serves to document the evolution of a great writer."

Arnzen holds a PhD in English from the University of Oregon (where he researched his non-fiction book, The Popular Uncanny) and he is presently a Professor at Seton Hill University, where he teaches horror and suspense fiction in the country's only graduate program in Writing Popular Fiction (http://fiction.setonhill.edu).

Arnzen resides near Pittsburgh, PA.

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"In a little over a decade, Michael A. Arnzen has achieved what few writers manage in a lifetime. He has become the master of a brand of literature that is uniquely his own, and I do not doubt that his approach to horror will soon (if it has not already) be referred to as 'Arnzenian.' When you begin an Arnzen story, you embark on a journey where the old maps do not apply. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory, barreling through landscapes more fascinating and twisted than any previously encountered. Be assured, you will be amazed, startled, amused, and creeped out along the way, but whatever the road has in store, you will not be able to stop reading until the story ends. Horrifying, captivating, ironic -- Arnzenian! -- the works of Michael A. Arnzen are in a class all their own. Fasten your seat belts and enjoy the ride!" -- Lawrence C. Connolly, author of Veins

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Tim Waggoner has published nearly sixty novels and eight collections of short stories. He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins, and his articles on writing have appeared in numerous publications. He’s a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, a one-time winner of the Scribe award, and he’s been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Splatterpunk Award. He’s also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio. His papers are collected by the University of Pittsburgh's Horror Studies Program.

Lucy A. Snyder is the five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of 14 books:

* Sister, Maiden, Monster

* Halloween Season

* Exposed Nerves

* Garden of Eldritch Delights

* While the Black Stars Burn

* Spellbent

* Shotgun Sorceress

* Switchblade Goddess

* Soft Apocalypses

* Orchid Carousals

* Sparks and Shadows

* Chimeric Machines

* Installing Linux on a Dead Badger

* Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer's Survival Guide

Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Steampunk World, and Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5.

She has an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and lives in Ohio. You can follow her on Twitter at @LucyASnyder.

You can learn more at her website: www.lucysnyder.com

Jonah Buck wanted to study eldritch knowledge and commune with pale, semi-human creatures that flit across the sunless landscape to terrorize the living, so he became an attorney in Oregon. His interests include history, professional stage magic, paleontology, and exotic poultry. He is the author of several novels, including Carrion Safari & Substratum, and over one hundred short stories.

When I was still a child and picked up my very first Goosebumps book by R. L. Stine, I knew I'd fallen head over heels in love with all things horror. It's a love affair that has only grown stronger over the years, a borderline obsession with stories that explore the darkest recesses of the human imagination. I guess you could say I'm like Thorny Rose in that way...always stalking down those special stories that have the ability to invoke a creepy-crawly feeling right down in the marrow of my bones.

As I grew older I discovered the work of some of my biggest inspirations like Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker...and the work of those authors sent me deeper down the path of the macabre. During my teenage years I had the little tradition of reading Stephen King's The Stand each summer to lose myself in the devastation of the superflu and marvel at the sadistic magnetism of Randall Flagg.

I've devoured horror fiction for as long as I can remember and reading the words weaved by the greats of the genre inspired me to begin writing. I wanted the opportunity to tell my own tales with the intent to terrify, to disturb; to capture the morbid curiosity of the reader just as my own was caught so early on in life.

If I've managed to inspire some of those feelings in you, my readers, then I feel that I've accomplished something just a little bit magical. There's still some magic left in this world, and I think it's most powerful when manifested in the form of words scrawled across many blank pages. Granted any magic contained within my work will be of the dark variety...but I wouldn't want it any other way. ;)

I live in Martinsburg, West Virginia with my little old pug Cerberus. When I'm not writing, I enjoy hiking mountain trails, weight training, getting tattooed and being a garden variety introvert in his late 20s. Oh, and reading too (duh).

Connect with me online:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/JMHorrorFiction

Instagram: @xbadmoonrising

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Lisa Mannetti's debut novel, THE GENTLING BOX, garnered a Bram Stoker Award and since then she has won the award for short fiction and has been nominated five additional times for the award in both the short and long fiction categories. Her work has been translated into Italian, and her story, "Everybody Wins," was made into a short film by director Paul Leyden starring Malin Ackerman and released under the title Bye-Bye Sally. "Dissolution" (a Bram-Stoker nominated novella in her collection, DEATHWATCH) will soon be a feature length film also directed by Paul Leyden (Come Back to Me, The Factory).

Recent short stories include two Bram Stoker-nominated tales, "The Hunger Artist" in Zippered Flesh II (February, 2013); "Arbeit Macht Frei" in the anthology, GUTTED: Beautiful Horror Stories (2016); and the Stoker Award winning short story, "Apocalypse Then" in NEVER FEAR: THE APOCALYPSE (April 2017).

She has also authored THE NEW ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER AND HUCK FINN (new adult and YA editions from Smart Rhino Publications), two companion novellas in DEATHWATCH, (new edition Nightscape Press, December 2013), a macabre gag book, 51 Fiendish Ways to Leave your Lover, (Bad Moon Books, Feb 2010) as well as non-fiction books, and numerous articles and short stories in newspapers, magazines and anthologies.

Her novella about Houdini, THE BOX JUMPER has won the 2015, "This is Horror Award" and was nominated for both the Bram Stoker and the Shirley Jackson Awards.

She is currently working on several longer works including a historical, paranormal novel, RADIUM GIRL about the dial painters tragedy in the post WW I era.

Lisa lives in New York.

Visit her author website: www.lisamannetti.com

Visit her virtual haunted house: www.thechanceryhouse.com

Frazer Lee’s debut novel, The Lamplighters was a Bram Stoker Award® Finalist for ‘Superior Achievement in a First Novel’.

One of Frazer’s early short stories received a Geoffrey Ashe Prize from the Library of Avalon, Glastonbury. His short fiction has since appeared in numerous anthologies including the acclaimed ‘Read By Dawn’ series.

Also a screenwriter and filmmaker, Frazer’s movie credits include the award-winning short horror films ‘On Edge’, ‘Red Lines’, ‘Simone’, and the critically acclaimed horror/thriller feature (and movie novelization) ‘Panic Button’.

Frazer lectures in Creative Writing and Screenwriting at Brunel University London and Birkbeck, University of London. He resides with his family in leafy Buckinghamshire, England where (when he’s not getting lost in a forest) he is working on new fiction and film projects.

Official website: www.frazerlee.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/AuthorFrazerLee

Twitter: www.twitter.com/frazer_lee

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.

Eric J. Guignard has twice won the Bram Stoker Award (the highest literary award of horror fiction), won the Shirley Jackson Award, and been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and International Thriller Writers Award for his works of dark and speculative fiction. He has over 100 stories and non-fiction author credits appearing in publications around the world; has edited multiple anthologies (including the current series, The Horror Writers Association’s HAUNTED LIBRARY OF HORROR CLASSICS, through SourceBooks, with co-editor Leslie S. Klinger); and has created an ongoing series of author primers championing modern masters of the dark and macabre, EXPLORING DARK SHORT FICTION through his press, Dark Moon Books. He is also publisher and acquisitions editor for the renowned +HORROR LIBRARY+ anthology series. His latest books are LAST CASE AT A BAGGAGE AUCTION; DOORWAYS TO THE DEADEYE; and short story collection THAT WHICH GROWS WILD: 16 TALES OF DARK FICTION (Cemetery Dance). Visit Eric at: www.ericjguignard.com, his blog: ericjguignard.blogspot.com, or Twitter: @ericjguignard.

Adam Millard is the author of twenty-nine novels, thirteen novellas, and more than two hundred short stories, which can be found in various collections, magazines, and anthologies. Probably best known for his post-apocalyptic and comedy-horror fiction, Adam also writes fantasy/horror for children and Bizarro fiction for several publishers. His work has been translated for the German, Russian, and Spanish markets. He lives in Newcastle-Under-Lyme, UK, with his wife, Dawn, and her cats, which were not his idea at all.

Twitter: @adammillard

Website: www.adam-millard.com

Nicola Lombardi (Italy, 1965) writes horror-weird fiction since the late '80s. He is author of various novels and collections, and has published two novelizations from the films of Dario Argento "Deep Red" and "Suspiria". He also works as a translator, essayist and anthology editor. More details are available at www.nicolalombardi.com.

Daniele Bonfanti is an Italian-born writer, editor and translator acclaimed for his contributions to speculative fiction and adventure.

He has translated giants such as Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Ramsey Campbell into Italian, as well as works from Italian and Spanish into English. His work has been published alongside the greatest contemporary and classic authors, he has contributed to Stoker-nominated anthologies, and appeared in Flame Tree's deluxe Gothic Fantasy series. He has received Honorable Mentions in Ellen Datlow's "The Best Horror of the Year," a Splatterpunk Award nomination, and has worked on several comics—authoring the graphic novel "Unstoppable," illustrated by Cardoselli.

Before his English-language debut with "Game" in 2016, he had already published two novels, four anthologies as an editor, and a bunch of stories in Italy. Not even newsstands were spared: he wrote articles, essays, and columns on ancient mysteries, the paranormal, alchemy, and fringe science for magazines like Hera and Area di Confine.

A pianist and composer, he has also worked as a farmer and beekeeper—key experiences for his narrative.

With his wife Valentina Kay, he founded and runs Bee Lab, a storytelling studio.

Residing in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, with his wife and daughters, Bonfanti lives a life of adventure, paralleling the captivating tales he weaves.

Michael H. Hanson is the Creator of the Sha'Daa shared-world, horror/fantasy anthology series (currently consisting of "Sha'Daa: TALES OF THE APOCALYPSE," "Sha'Daa: LAST CALL," "Sha'Daa: PAWNS," "Sha'Daa: FACETS," "Sha'Daa: INKED," "Sha'Daa: TOYS," and "SHA'DAA: ZOMBIE PARK") all published by Moondream Press (an imprint of Copper Dog Publishing LLC). Two new Sha'Daa Novella Anthologies ("SHA'DAA" WAR" & "SHA'DAA: SALESMAN") and a new Novel (SHA'DAA: AERONAUTS") are all currently being written.

Michael has written and sold six collections of poetry to date: "Autumn Blush" and "Jubilant Whispers", both from Racket River Press, "DARK PARCHMENTS: Midnight Curses and Verses" and "WHEN THE NIGHT OWL SCREAMS", both from Moondream Press, and "ANDROID GIRL And Other Sentient Publications" and "QUARANTINE WORLD" from Three Ravens Publishing LLC.

Michael's short story "C.H.A.D." appears in the Crystal Lake Publishing anthology "C.H.U.D. LIVES!", his short story "Rock and Road" appears in the Roger Zelazny tribute anthology "SHADOWS AND REFLECTIONS,” his short story "Born Of Dark Waters” appears in the Independent Legions Publishing anthology "THE BEAUTY OF DEATH 2: DEATH BY WATER,” and his short story “Night Shopper” appears in William Morrow Paperback’s "OTHER TERRORS: An Inclusive Anthology.”

Michael is also one of the current authors appearing in Janet Morris's recently resurrected Heroes-in-Hell shared-world series, and has had short stories published in the anthologies: "Lawyers in Hell," "Dreamers in Hell," "Rogues in Hell," "Poets in Hell," "Doctors in Hell," "Pirates in Hell," "Lovers in Hell," "Mystics in Hell,"and "Liars in Hell."

Joanna Parypinski is a college English instructor by day and a writer of the dark and strange by night. Her work has appeared in Black Static, Nightmare Magazine, Haunted Nights (ed. Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton), The Beauty of Death 2: Death by Water, Nightscript IV, Tales from the Lake 5, Vastarien, and elsewhere. Her novel, Dark Carnival, was released by Bram Stoker Award winning press Independent Legions in 2019. Living in the shadow of an old church that sits atop a hilly cemetery north of Los Angeles, she writes, grades essays, and plays her cello surrounded by the sounds of screaming neighbor children. See more at joannaparypinski.com.

Dona Fox writes short stories & poetry, mainly horror & dark fantasy infused with bits of science fiction. Coming from the Pacific Northwest, specters from the Northwest's forests, Portland's bridges & Seattle's streets often creep into her dark tales.

See what Dona's up to, including what she's reading by following her at Dona's Darkness online at www.donafox.com