Eric Shapiro is a writer, filmmaker, and journalist. He wrote the screenplay for Macho, the forthcoming Randy Savage biopic now in co-production with Kenan Thompson’s Artists for Artists, Paul Coy Allen’s Midas Entertainment, and Range Media Partners.
His novella It’s Only Temporary was named one of Nightmare Magazine’s “100 Best Horror Novels of All Time,” and he has won both a Fade In Award for screenwriting and a California Journalism Award. As a filmmaker, his work has won awards at Fantasia and Shriekfest, earned the endorsement of PETA, and screened at Fantastic Fest. His feature films Horrorbuku, Intrusive, and Rule of 3 are slated to appear as special episodes in the upcoming revival of USA’s Up All Night on Kings of Horror.
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 the Bram Stoker Award winning press Omnium Gatherum which is 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.
Toby's stories have been praised by Midwest Book Review, Library Journal and Cemetery Dance as well as by New York Times bestselling authors Steve Berry, Douglas Preston, Jonathan Maberry and Steve Alten. He has been featured in The Big Thrill magazine and on Internet radio, blogs and newspapers.
Inexplicably drawn to all things dark and macabre, at about the age of twelve he began penning short stories and publishing his own movie monster magazine.
An Air Force brat who never lived in one place more than two years, after high school Toby did an eight-year stint in the U.S. Navy and ended up on the east coast. He has since worked as a cab driver, a pizza delivery man, a phone solicitor, a shipyard technician, a government contractor, a retail
