Dave Jeffery is author of 15 novels, two collections, and numerous short stories. His Necropolis Rising series and yeti adventure Frostbite have both featured on the Amazon #1 bestseller list. His YA work features critically acclaimed Beatrice Beecham supernatural mystery series and Finding Jericho, a contemporary mental health novel that was featured on the BBC Health and the Independent Schools Entrance Examination Board's recommended reading lists. A third edition of this book will be released by Demain Publishing in 2020.

Jeffery is a member of the Society of Authors, British Fantasy Society (where he is a regular book reviewer), and the Horror Writers Association. He is also a registered mental health professional with a BSc (Hons) in Mental Health Studies and a Master of Science Degree in Health Studies.

Jeffery is married with two children and lives in Worcestershire, UK.

For more information please visit: www.davejeffery.webs.com

Paul Kane is the award-winning, bestselling author and editor of over a hundred books – including the Arrowhead trilogy (gathered together in the sellout Hooded Man omnibus, revolving around a post-apocalyptic version of Robin Hood), The Butterfly Man and Other Stories, Hellbound Hearts, The Mammoth Book of Body Horror and Pain Cages (an Amazon #1 bestseller). His non-fiction books include The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy and Voices in the Dark, and his genre journalism has appeared in the likes of SFX, Rue Morgue and DeathRay. He has been a Guest at Alt.Fiction five times, was a Guest at the first SFX Weekender, at Thought Bubble in 2011, Derbyshire Literary Festival and Off the Shelf in 2012, Monster Mash and Event Horizon in 2013, Edge-Lit in 2014 and 2018, HorrorCon, HorrorFest and Grimm Up North in 2015, The Dublin Ghost Story Festival and Sledge-Lit in 2016, IMATS Olympia and Celluloid Screams in 2017, plus Black Library Live and the UK Ghost Story Festival in 2019, as well as being a panellist at FantasyCon and the World Fantasy Convention, and a fiction judge at the Sci-Fi London festival. A former British Fantasy Society Special Publications Editor, he is currently serving as co-chair for the UK chapter of The Horror Writers Association. His work has been optioned and adapted for the big and small screen, including for US network primetime television, and his novelette ‘Men of the Cloth’ has just been turned into a feature by Loose Canon/Hydra Films, starring Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, You’re Next). His audio work includes the full cast drama adaptation of The Hellbound Heart for Bafflegab, starring Tom Meeten (The Ghoul), Neve McIntosh (Doctor Who) and Alice Lowe (Prevenge), and the Robin of Sherwood adventure The Red Lord for Spiteful Puppet/ITV narrated by Ian Ogilvy (Return of the Saint). Paul’s latest novels are Lunar (set to be turned into a feature film), the Y.A. story The Rainbow Man (as P.B. Kane), the sequels to RED – Blood RED & Deep RED – the award-winning hit Sherlock Holmes & the Servants of Hell, Before (an Amazon Top 5 dark fantasy bestseller) and Arcana. He also writes thrillers for HQ Digital/HarperCollins as PL Kane, the first of which, Her Last Secret, came out in January 2020 (www.plkane.com). Paul lives in Derbyshire, UK, with his wife Marie O’Regan and his family. Find out more at his site www.shadow-writer.co.uk which has featured Guest Writers such as Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Charlaine Harris, Robert Kirkman, Dean Koontz and Guillermo del Toro.

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JONATHAN GREEN is a writer of speculative fiction, with more than seventy books to his name. Well known for his contributions to the Fighting Fantasy range of adventure gamebooks, he has also written fiction for such diverse properties as Doctor Who, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000, Sonic the Hedgehog, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Moshi Monsters, LEGO, Judge Dredd, Robin of Sherwood, and Frostgrave.

He is the creator of the Pax Britannia series for Abaddon Books and has written eight novels, and numerous short stories, set within this steampunk universe, featuring the debonair dandy adventurer Ulysses Quicksilver. Steampunk and dieselpunk have left their mark on his latest gamebook publications as well, 2015’s Alice’s Nightmare in Wonderland, and the forthcoming The Wicked Wizard of Oz.

He is the author of an increasing number of non-fiction titles, including the award-winning YOU ARE THE HERO – A History of Fighting Fantasy Gamebooks, and he has recently taken to editing and compiling short story anthologies, including the critically-acclaimed GAME OVER, SHARKPUNK, and Shakespeare Vs Cthulhu, all published by Snowbooks.

To find out more about his current projects visit www.JonathanGreenAuthor.com and follow him on Twitter @jonathangreen.

Wayne Goodchild is from Scunthorpe, which is the only town in the whole of England that's twinned with its own rubbish dump. He spent a few years in Australia and the US, but now lives in Colombia with his wife and two young sons. He's a qualified English teacher, noisy musician and erstwhile filmmaker. He also has a thoroughly healthy obsession with 1980's horror films, pulp/weird fiction and old jazz.

He has over thirty publication credits to his name, many of which were invite-only anthologies that also feature noted genre authors such as Simon Kurt Unsworth and Jonathan Green.

Wayne has also edited several novels and compiled various anthologies, although sadly those publishers no longer exist (Pill Hill Press, Library of the Living Dead). He's currently (November 2020) assembling a collection of short stories, This Town Will Destroy You, that should see the light of day before 2021 rolls around.

Born in the 60′s, he managed to survive the decades that followed with minimum trauma. He lives in the north of England, the County of West Yorkshire, and is married with four children, four stepchildren and numerous pets.

He has been a writer for over two decades but has only recently decided to make a name for himself, with several novels and multiple short stories available. Ian writes mainly in the horror genre, but sometimes likes to add a helping of Science fiction and romance.

Come visit me at my home at www.ianwoodhead.moonfruit.com

Born in California but raised in New Jersey; Christopher--the author of THE CORN WITCH, THE BIRTHDAY GIRL AND OTHER STORIES-- enjoys spending his free time hiking and looking for ancient evils.

Sean Sweeney's love of reading began in 1988, when he was handed J.R.R. Tolkien's classic The Hobbit, and was given a needed boost with John Grisham novels and the Star Wars Expanded Universe. His passion for writing began in 1993, as a sophomore in high school, when he began writing sports for his local newspaper. Born and raised in North Central Massachusetts in 1977, Sweeney has written for several newspapers and radio stations. When he is not writing, he enjoys the Boston Red Sox, the New England Revolution, Arsenal F.C., Gold Coast F.C., the New England Patriots, and playing with he and his wife's two horses and five cats.

Website: http://www.seansweeneyauthor.com

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Richard Salter has been writing and editing for over 25 years. He is the editor of a Doctor Who anthology (Short Trips: Transmissions), a post-apocalyptic mosaic novel (World's Collider), and co-editor of the charity anthology Fantasy For Good, featuring stories by Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, Piers Anthony, and many others. All proceeds go to The Colon Cancer Alliance.

His debut novel, The Patchwork House, is a haunted house chiller mixed with time travel, and was published by Nightscape Press. 2017 saw the release of his first thriller, co-written with Steven Savile. Shining Ones is book five of the Ogmios Directive series. He also edited a reissue of the bestselling Ogmios novel Silver, also by Savile, and it's long-awaited sequel, Gold. His short fiction appears in various anthologies including Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction, Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix the Anthology, Sharkpunk, Horror for Good and This is How You Die (Machine of Death 2).

By day he works as a project manager for a telecom software vendor, and he lives with his wife, two sons, a dog and a cat in the suburbs of Toronto, Canada.

Find out more at http://www.richardsalter.com

Dark fantasy and horror author Kate Jonez has twice been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award ® and once for the Shirley Jackson.

She is also the chief editor at Omnium Gatherum a multiple award nominated press dedicated to publishing unique dark fantasy, weird fiction and horror.

Kate is a student of all things scary and when she isn’t writing she loves to collect objects for her cabinet of curiosities, research obscure and strange historical figures and photograph Southern California where she lives with a very nice man and two little dogs who are also very nice but could behave a little bit better.

Adrian Chamberlin was born in Wales in 1971, lived in Cambridge for ten years and now lives in South Oxfordshire.

He's been writing the creepy stuff ever since he could hold a pen, much to the concern of parents and teachers. For instance, the bodycount and graphic violence in his first story 'The Octopus Rises From The Deep' (St John’s Primary School, 1979) led to concerns about his choice of reading matter. He was eight years old and already a massive fan of Guy N Smith and James Herbert. Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton just wern’t dark enough for him…

His first published story was 'Lovebite', a first-prize winner in Guy N Smith’s Graveyard Rendezvous competition in 1998; his apocalyptic tale of The Rapture 'Totality' was published in the same magazine in 2000.

Since then his works can be found on the Lovecraft eZine and the following (or forthcoming) anthologies: Tasmaniac Publication’s Festive Fear 2: Global Edition; HorrorBound’s Fear of the Dark; John Prescott’s M is for Monster; Static Press’s Monk Punk; Hersham Horror’s Alt-Dead; UnEarthed Press’s Anthology of Ichor III: Gears of Damnation; Evil Jester Press's Help! Wanted!; Pill Hill Press's Epocalypse: Emails at the End (with Suzanne Robb and Ian Kobe) and Dark Continents Publishing’s The Spectrum Collection.

His first novel 'The Caretakers' was launched at the World Horror Convention 2011 in Austin Texas, and he's now working on the Lovecraftian thriller 'Fairlight' as well as co-writing the third installment in the 'Snareville' saga with DM Youngquist.

My name is S.L. Schmitz. I live in North Carolina with my husband and son. Dark Continents Publishing has released the second edition of "Let It Bleed". In addition, I have short stories in several anthologies including "Phobophobia" and "Bloody Parchment, Volume One", "FEAR: Of the Water" by Sirens Call Publications, and a bunch more.

Some of you may recall a serialized digital novel I had in publication in 2011-2012 called "Mina's Daughter: The Harker Chronicles". Due to some serious legal no-no's that the published did towards myself and numerous other authors and artists, I have voluntarily pulled that novel from the market. I hope to re-release the finished novel it in 2014. I will keep you posted!

Please feel free to "Like" S.L. Schmitz-author on Facebook, and visit my website at www.slschmitz.com for more information.

Tracie McBride is a New Zealander of Maori and European descent who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her debut collection Ghosts Can Bleed contains much of the work that earned her a Sir Julius Vogel Award, with a second collection - Drive, She Said - published by IFWG Publishing in 2020. Her stories and the anthologies they have appeared in have won or been shortlisted for several awards including the Stoker, Aurealis, and Australian Shadows Awards. Visitors to her blog are welcome at http://traciemcbridewriter.wordpress.com/.

Marie O’Regan is a Shirley Jackson, Australian Shadows and British Fantasy Award-nominated author and editor, based in Derbyshire. She was awarded the British Fantasy Society ‘Legends of FantasyCon’ award in 2022. Her first collection, Mirror Mere, was published in 2006 by Rainfall Books; her second, In Times of Want, came out in September 2016 from Hersham Horror Books. Her third, The Last Ghost and Other Stories, was published by Luna Press early in 2019. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of genre magazines and anthologies in the UK, US, Canada, Italy and Germany, including Best British Horror 2014, Great British Horror: Dark Satanic Mills (2017), and The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories. Her novella, Bury Them Deep, was published by Hersham Horror Books in September 2017. Her first novel, Celeste, was published in February 2022 by Encyclopocalypse Publications. She was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Short Story in 2006 (‘Can You See Me’), and Best Anthology in 2010 (Hellbound Hearts), 2012 (Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women), 2019 (Wonderland) and 2023 (The Other Side of Never). Wonderland was also shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson award for Best Anthology. Her genre journalism has appeared in magazines like The Dark Side, Rue Morgue and Fortean Times, and her interview book with prominent figures from the horror genre, Voices in the Dark, was released in 2011. An essay on ‘The Changeling’ was published in PS Publishing’s Cinema Macabre, edited by Mark Morris. She is co-editor of the bestselling Hellbound Hearts, Mammoth Book of Body Horror, A Carnivàle of Horror – Dark Tales from the Fairground, Exit Wounds (four stories from which have been shortlisted for a CWA dagger for Best Short Story), Wonderland (nominated for a Shirley Jackson award and BFS award), Cursed, Twice Cursed, The Other Side of Never (nominated for a British Fantasy Award), In These Hallowed Halls, and Beyond & Within Folk Horror Short Stories, as well as the charity anthology Trickster’s Treats #3 (nominated for an Aurealis award). She is also the sole editor of bestselling The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women and Phantoms. Marie was on the British Fantasy Society Committee from 2001 to 2008, editing both Prism and Dark Horizons before becoming Chair in 2004, and worked on several FantasyCons over the years, sometimes as Chair. She also ran ChillerCon UK, which took place in Scarborough in May 2022. One further anthology (Death Comes at Christmas) is currently slated for release in October, 2024, with three more forthcoming for 2025 and 2026 beyond that and various further projects in the works. Marie is also Managing Editor of PS Publishing’s award-winning novella imprint, Absinthe Books, which has has so far published novellas by SJI Holliday, George Mann (twice), Laura Mauro, Cavan Scott, Jen Williams, Angela Slatter (winner of a Shirley Jackson award for Best Novella), M.R. Carey, Louise Carey, Priya Sharma (winner of a World Fantasy Award for Best Novella, nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella), Alan Baxter (nominated for an Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel and Best Fantasy Novella, Tracy Fahey (nominated for a British Fantasy Award for best Novella), Lee Murray (shortlisted for a Bram Stoker™ Award for best Long Fiction), A.C. Wise, Premee Mohamed, Conrad Williams, Ian Rogers, and Paul Finch, with the next three titles being released in Spring 2025.

Although born in NZ, just five months after Hitler liberated Luxembourg in May 1940, John Irvine lived in Australia for 28 years, three months, fourteen days and approximately fifty-seven minutes, drifting about like a hungry Cryptococcus spore on an unreliable breeze. He is now Poet Laureate for Life in the tiny village of Colville, on the northern Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. There, on each waning moon, he lets his dark side out to play with the sheep.

He has had several collections of poetry published by non-discerning editors, including himself, and in spite of past financial losses, and against all sensible advice, he did it again in 2011 with a collection of dubious stuff euphemistically called 'speculative.' What might save the thing are the utterly splendid illustrations supplied at no cost by empathic and desperate, internationally acclaimed artists suffering similar ongoing delusions...

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Books published:

Personal collections:

Man of Stone (poetry 2005) Illustrated.

Rat atouille for the rindless (poetry 2007) Illustrated.

Dare to Fly (joint collection of poetry with American Lori-Anne Grim 2008)

Dandelions to Razorblades (joint poetry collection with American teenager Emily Cooper)

Blood Curry (speculative/horror fiction and poetry, illustrated. Launched in April 2011 at WHC)

Collected haibun from John and Maureen Irvine, out in May in 2012. Illustrated.

You and me and cancer makes three

Fast Friends Forever

Buccaneers, Sonneteers and Spitoons

Haunted Horror

Stoned

Frog Spawn

Anthologies:

Anomalous Appetites (speculative poetry, illustrated)

Dragon Writers anthologies 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

Razar (horror fiction 2006) 15 stories.

NZ Poetry Society anthologies 2006, 2007, 2010

Illuminations (2006)

Spectrum Collection December 2010

In Darkness we Play Triskaideka Books December 2010

I Believe in Werewolves July 2011

Bleed and they will come 2011

Travel:

Survival Books guide to NZ (2008)

Spiritual:

Illuminations (along with Desmond Tutu and other notables)

www.cooldragon76.com

Damaged people, ultraviolence, murder and explicit sex - what's not to love about her work?"

-Chris Alexander, Editor-in-Chief, Fangoria, Issue #321

BIOGRAPHY:

Actress and author Barbie Wilde is best known as the Female Cenobite in Clive Barker's classic cult horror movie Hellbound: Hellraiser II. She has performed in cabaret in Bangkok, Thailand, robotically danced in the Bollywood blockbuster, Janbazz, played a vicious mugger in the vigilante thriller Death Wish III, and was a drummer for an electronica band in the so-called "Holy Grail of unfinished and unreleased 80's horror", Grizzly II: The Concert (finally completed after 37 years and released in 2020 as Grizzly 2: Revenge), which starred then unknowns George Clooney, Laura Dern and Charlie Sheen. Wilde was a founder member of the mime/dance/music group, SHOCK, which supported such artists as Gary Numan, Ultravox, Depeche Mode and Adam & the Ants in the 1980s. In the 80s and 90s, Wilde also presented and wrote eight different music and film review TV programs in the UK.

In 2009-2021, Wilde contributed short stories to 16 different horror or crime anthologies and publications. Her 2009 Hellraiser-inspired short story, “Sister Cilice”, made it to the top of the list of Dread Central’s 8 Most Gruesome Hellraiser Stories Told Outside the Movies: “This is a messy, viscera-soaked, disturbing story that’s also lurid and steamy in a way that would make Barker proud.”

Wilde's dark crime novel, 'The Venus Complex', was published by Comet Press in November, 2012. Fangoria has called Wilde "...one of the finest purveyors of erotically charged horror fiction around."

In 2015, SST Publications published a full color, illustrated short horror story collection called 'Voices of the Damned', which contained 9 of Wilde's stories to date, plus two previously unpublished ones. All the stories in the collection were accompanied by top artists of the horror genre, such as Clive Barker, Nick Percival, Daniele Serra, Vincent Sammy, Ben Baldwin, Tara Bush, Steve McGinnis and Eric Gross. Publishers Weekly gave the book a starred review, calling it "sensual in its brutality" and "...a delight for the darker senses, this is a satisfying triumph in a befitting, unforgiving, style. "

In November 2018, 'The Venus Complex' was released as an audio book, narrated by 'Hellraiser' star, Doug Bradley.

In March 2024, Demain Publishing released 'The Cilicium Quadra', a collection of four short horror stories featuring the Female Cenobite, Sister Cilice.

Barbie Wilde is the proud recipient of the Texas Frightmare Weekend Lifetime of Torment Award and the Cine-Excess Innovator of Horror Award 2023.

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Reviews:

"...her work is so uncanny and fearless, it is a must have for any horror aficionado."

--writers and directors The Soska Sisters

Publishers Weekly 'Starred Review' for Voices of the Damned: "In this impressive collection of short stories, actor Wilde (who played the Female Cenobite in the film classic Hellbound: Hellraiser II) reveals a world of beautiful fear. The most delightfully terrifying entries form the Cilicium Trilogy, which reveals the complex origin and destiny of Sister Cilice. This character-focused exploration is sensual in its brutality. In "Writer's Block," Wilde combines the psychological torture of an unknown artist with the erotic egotism of fandom to create a fascinating sexual horror. She creates a dreadful family legacy in "Botophobia," in which there are not merely skeletons in the closet but unworldly powers hidden in the basement. Wilde's mastery of shocking violence is given full rein in subjects ranging from reclusive self-imprisonment to the exploration of European nightmares. As much a chilling collection of frightful fiction as a delight for the darker senses, this is a satisfying triumph in a befitting, unforgiving, style."

Reviews for The Venus Complex:

"A novel by a female Cenobite that gives the world a smart, artistic, cynical, cultured serial killer who could give Hannibal Lecter a run for his money. On top of that, this is a poignant, funny, sexually-charged, hardcore critique of popular culture and a deconstruction of relationships, academia, and art."

-Gabino Iglesias, HorrorTalk's Top Books of 2012 list (Number 3)

"The Venus Complex, as the title suggests, is an erotically charged novel, and there are some passages that give the likes of Anais Nin and Alina Reyes a run for their money." "...Hitchcockian in its portrayal of murderous obsession."

-Jon Towlson, Starburst Magazine

"The book has been garnering great reviews, firmly confirming the literary course that is now defining Wilde's life. Damaged people, ultraviolence, murder and explicit sex - what's not to love about her work?"

-Chris Alexander, Editor-in-Chief, Fangoria, Issue #321

Ambitious, Dean M Drinkel is a published author, editor, award winning script-writer and film director and was Associate Editor of FEAR Magazine – he has also contributed several non-fiction pieces to various publications. He has over thirty credits to his name in the field of genre writing (including short stories, collections, novellas, anthologies); has written and directed fifteen theatrical plays in London and the South East of England and during the years 2002 – 2008, he wrote and directed several short experimental films. In 2016 Dean moved to Cannes, France to write a script with Romain Collier entitled “The Tragedy Of The Duke of Reichstadt”. This won two screenplay awards (Best Historical Drama / Best Independent Spirit) at the Monaco International Film Festival. In 2017 Dean directed the short film “15” for Midas Light Films. Dean has won five awards (thus far) for his script-writing and one for his directing. He was runner-up for the 2001 Sir Peter Ustinov Screenwriting Award (International Emmys) – for his script “Ghosts”. He makes his feature film directing debut in 2020 with the comedy film "Chocolate Potato".