Joe McKinney has his feet in several different worlds. In his day job, he has worked as a patrol officer for the San Antonio Police Department, a DWI Enforcement officer, a disaster mitigation specialist, a homicide detective, the director of the City of San Antonio’s 911 Call Center, and a patrol supervisor. He played college baseball for Trinity University, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in American History, and went on to earn a Master’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at San Antonio. He was the manager of a Barnes & Noble for a while, where he indulged a lifelong obsession with books. He published his first novel, Dead City, in 2006, a book that has since been recognized as a seminal work in the zombie genre. Since then, he has gone on to win two Bram Stoker Awards and expanded his oeuvre to cover everything from true crime and writings on police procedure to science fiction to cooking to Texas history. The author of more than twenty books, he is a frequent guest at horror and mystery conventions. Joe and his wife Tina have two lovely daughters and make their home in a little town just outside of San Antonio, where he pursues his passion for cooking and makes what some consider to be the finest batch of chili in Texas. You can keep up with all of Joe’s latest releases by friending him on Facebook.

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

I am a Scottish writer, now living in Canada, with over thirty novels published in the genre press and over 300 short story credits in thirteen countries. I have had books published with a variety of publishers including Dark Regions Press, DarkFuse and Severed Press, and my work has appeared in a number of professional anthologies and magazines.

I live in Newfoundland with whales, bald eagles and icebergs for company and when I'm not writing I drink beer, play guitar and dream of fortune and glory.

Author of Demon, Kumiho Inheritance & Dark Waters

Co-Founder of The Novelblog.com website,

Short stories appear in both HorrorBound Magazine (Canada) & 2 issues of Astonishing Adventures Magazine (USA).

Editor and owner of Hersham Horror Books small press.

Hedge End from Samhain Horror, followed by AZ:Anno Zombie in Dec 2012

Something More Than Night 2016

AZ:Anno Zombie 2017 Maze Horror 2017

Hedge End Crossroads Press USA 2018

Forky's House Crossroads Press USA 2018

Katherine Tomlinson is an award-winning fictionista, a Pushcart Prize nominee for her short stories, and a screenwriter and editor. She was educated at Duke University; and began her career as a writer/editor for city magazines in Virginia, Hawaii, and California before transitioning to writing features for Copley News Service. She has worked in the entertainment industry as a development executive, researcher, and film doctor. Her pen name, Katherine Moore, is a USA Today bestselling novelist. Her pen name Kat Parrish is an international and Amazon bestselling author. An inveterate traveler, she is a digital nomad living in Portugal.

David has been writing short stories for many years and was first published in the 28th Pan Book of Horror Stories with 3 tales in Pan number 30. He has also regularly appeared in the wonderful Mortbury Press Black Book of Horror numbers 5,6,7,8,9,10 and the newly published number 11.

He featured in the grisly Alt-Zombie from Hersham Horror.

He also has tales in 'From Their Cradle to Your Grave' from Cruentus Libri press, and 'You'd Better Watch Out!' from the same publisher. He appeared in several anthologies on 2013, including Demons and Devilry, from the Pent Anth series

His own collection of stories, spanning 30 years and entitled The Chameleon Man and Other Terrors, has recently been published by the excellent Parallel Universe Publications.

In a complete change of direction, David's latest book published by Renweard Press, is a CHILDREN'S book! Drefan and the Knucker Dragon is the first in a series about an eleven year old Saxon boy who lives in Englaland in the year 550, and you can follow Drefan as he has encounters with Dragons, Wicce and all manner of other Demons and creatures which dwell within the great forest.

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.

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Jan Edwards is author of the Bunch Courtney Investigations ww2 historical mystery series and was awarded the Arnold Bennett Book Prize for Winter Downs - the first novel featuring female sleuth Bunch Courtney in this successful golden age mystery crime series. She is also a prolific short story writer across various genres.

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