Mort Castle
Mort Castle is a horror author, editor, and a writing teacher with more than 350 short stories and a dozen books to his credit.
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Katherine Vega
Katherine Vega es redactora de contenidos y escritora. Es autora de la saga American Killers, que explora las vidas de asesinos en serie mezclando ficción y true crime, y de la trilogía romántica de Versalles.
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Empezó publicando fanfics sobre sus personajes ficticios favoritos en Wattpad y en 2021 se lanzó a publicar su primer libro. Ese mismo año, su historia 'Hi, Winchester' fue seleccionada como finalista en los Premios Wattys. En 2023, su novela 'Canciones que te oí cantar en Helsinki' fue elegida ganadora del XI Premio Internacional HQÑ de Harper Collins.
Como la mayoría de escritoras del mundo, lleva escribiendo desde niña. Le apasionan todo tipo de géneros literarios, desde el thriller a la romántica.
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Katherine Vega
Katherine Vega es redactora de contenidos y escritora. Es autora de la saga American Killers, que explora las vidas de asesinos en serie mezclando ficción y true crime, y de la trilogía romántica de Versalles.
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Empezó publicando fanfics sobre sus personajes ficticios favoritos en Wattpad y en 2021 se lanzó a publicar su primer libro. Ese mismo año, su historia 'Hi, Winchester' fue seleccionada como finalista en los Premios Wattys. En 2023, su novela 'Canciones que te oí cantar en Helsinki' fue elegida ganadora del XI Premio Internacional HQÑ de Harper Collins.
Como la mayoría de escritoras del mundo, lleva escribiendo desde niña. Le apasionan todo tipo de géneros literarios, desde el thriller a la romántica.
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Eve Harms
Eve Harms is a writer of horror and bizarro fiction. Her trans body horror novella TRANSMUTED was featured in Sadie Hartman’s award-winning book 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered, and her other work has appeared in publications such as Vastarien Literary Journal, under Rayna Waxhead, and Creepy Catalog, under Kendra Temples.
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In addition to her love for storytelling, her belief in art and the power of self-expression feeds her passion for zines, the creative commons, and the work of independent creators. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her children's book illustrator spouse and two cats.
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Brendan Vidito
Brendan Vidito is the author of the Wonderland Award-winning collection of body horror stories, Nightmares in Ecstasy (Clash Books, 2018) and the upcoming Pornography for the End of the World (Weirdpunk Books, 2022). He also co-edited Splatterpunk Award-nominated anthology The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg (Weirdpunk Books, 2019) with Sam Richard. He lives in Ontario, surrounded by books and reptiles.
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Iván Ledesma
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Ivan Ledesma (Barcelona, 1977) és un escriptor i guionista català. Porta més de 20 anys dedicat al treball creatiu per a tot tipus de mitjans: productores, televisions, ràdios, agències d'esdeveniments i editorials.
Autor de llibres infantils, com la saga Diari de Dan, llibres de gènere per a adults, com 184 o la multipremiada novel·la Negorith, o novel·les gràfiques, com La Vampira de Barcelona.
Ha treballat com a guionista i realitzador per a productores com WOW, Global Events, Canonigo Films, Fausto Producciones, Animal Films, Utopic ...
Ha compost la BSO de diversos capítols de sèries de TV com el capítol final de Vent del Pla. I a més, ha fet al llarg dels anys una dotzena de discos de diferents estils musicals on ha compost música -
David Mitchell
David Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature. He lived for a year in Sicily, then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English to technical students for eight years, before returning to England. After another stint in Japan, he currently lives in Ireland with his wife Keiko and their two children. In an essay for Random House, Mitchell wrote: "I knew I wanted to be a writer since I was a kid, but until I came to Japan to live in 1994 I was too easily distracted to do much about it. I would probably have become a writer wherever I lived, but wo
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Jesús Cañadas
Jesús Cañadas nace en Cádiz en 1980. Es ingeniero técnico en informática por la Universidad de Cádiz, licenciado en documentación por la Universidad de Granada, así como máster en gestión cultural por la Universidad de Deusto, la Universidad de Gotinga y la Universidad de Osaka.
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En 2003 se traslada a Italia, donde empieza a cultivar la literatura de género de forma pseudo-profesional con la publicación de su primer cuento en la revista Asimov Magazine. Desde entonces sus relatos han aparecido en otras publicaciones como Aurora Bitzine o Miasma. Asimismo, ha colaborado en las antologías Calabazas en el Trastero, Ácronos, Fantasmagoria, Charco Negro o la más reciente Presencia Humana.
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Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix is the author of the novels Horrorstör, about a haunted IKEA, and My Best Friend's Exorcism, which is like Beaches meets The Exorcist, only it's set in the Eighties. He's also the author of We Sold Our Souls, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and the upcoming (July 13!) Final Girl Support Group!
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He's also the jerk behind the Stoker award-winning Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the 70's and 80's horror paperback boom, which contains more information about Nazi leprechauns, killer babies, and evil cats than you probably need.
And he's the screenwriter behind Mohawk, which is probably the only horror movie about the War of 1812 and Satanic Panic.
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David Jasso
David Jasso nació en 1961 en Zaragoza, ciudad en la que reside. Está casado y tiene una hija de diecisiete años. Ha trabajado como periodista en prensa, radio y televisión; también ha impartido clases de Medios de Comunicación. En la actualidad es el Director del departamento audiovisual de una importante Vídeo productora.
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Es el presidente de NOCTE, la asociación española de escritores de terror. También imparte talleres literarios y de creatividad para niños, adolescentes y adultos.
Aficionado a la música y al cine, es, sobre todo, un lector compulsivo y un gran aficionado a la literatura de terror. Ha escrito numerosas reseñas literarias y relatos para varios medios especializados. En su juventud formó parte del colectivo “Abrotjos” y editó -
Ismael Martínez Biurrun
ISMAEL MARTÍNEZ BIURRUN (Pamplona, 1972) Es uno de los autores de thriller fantástico más destacados de nuestro país. Ha publicado las novelas Duración de un fantasma (Aristas Martínez, 2024), Solo los vivos perdonan (Aristas Martínez, 2022), Sigilo (Alianza, 2019), Invasiones (Valdemar, 2017), Un minuto antes de la oscuridad (Penguin Random House, 2014), El escondite de Grisha (Salto de Página,2011), Mujer abrazada a un cuervo (Salto de Página, 2010), Rojo alma, negro sombra (451 editores, 2008) e Infierno nevado (Sirius/Sportula, 2007).
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Carlos Sisí
Carlos Sisí (Madrid, 1971) vive en Málaga. En 2009 sorprendió al público español con su serie Los Caminantes, que situaba el apocalipsis zombi en las soleadas tierras malagueñas y se convirtió en un verdadero fenómeno de ventas. También es un prolífico autor de género con La hora del mar, la trilogía vampírica Rojo, Homine Ex Machina o El Nigromante. Ganó la X edición del Premio Minotauro con Panteón.
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Cuando no está enfrascado en alguno de sus muchos hobbies, Carlos dirige una revista digital online y su empresa familiar de diseño y soluciones de Internet. -
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Thomas Olde Heuvelt (1983) is the international bestselling author of HEX. The much-praised novel was published in over twenty-five countries around the world and is currently in development for TV by Gary Dauberman. Olde Heuvelt, whose last name in Dutch dialect means “Old Hill,” was the first ever translated author to win a Hugo Award for his short story "The Day the World Turned Upside Down".
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His new novel ECHO will be out with Nightfire Books in the US and Hodder & Stoughton on February 8, 2022. International publication of his novel ORACLE, which topped all the bestseller charts in The Netherlands in March '21, will follow soon thereafter.
Thomas lives in The Netherlands and the south of France and is an avid mountaineer.
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David Irons
David Irons was the kid who went to his room to watch and read horror when his relatives came round. It paid off. When he left his room, he became an award-winning filmmaker and writer living on the south coast of England. His films, colourful and stylish in design, have won awards at the Cambridge Film festival, Las Vegas VIFF festival, and LA Independent Festival for cinematography, editing, writing, and directing. '7 Winters Alone' - a sci-fi, horror short - was a winner in David Lynch's 2014 Short Film Competition.
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In 2019 David had his first novel, Night Waves, published, followed by Night Creepers, Polybius, and The Bloody Tracks of Bigfoot in 2020 - 2021 from Severed Press. Since then, David has become a Splatterpunk award-nominated w -
Todd Keisling
TODD KEISLING is the two-time Bram Stoker Award®-nominated author of Devil’s Creek, Scanlines, Cold, Black & Infinite, and most recently, The Sundowner’s Dance, among several others. A pair of his earlier works were recipients of the University of Kentucky’s Oswald Research & Creativity Prize for Creative Writing (2002 and 2005), and his second novel, The Liminal Man, was an Indie Book Award finalist in Horror & Suspense (2013). He lives in Pennsylvania with his family.
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Philip Fracassi
PHILIP FRACASSI is the Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award-nominated author of the novels A Child Alone with Strangers, Gothic, Boys in the Valley, The Third Rule of Time Travel, and The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre. He is also the author of the story collections Behold the Void, Beneath a Pale Sky, and No One is Safe!
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His stories have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Black Static, Best Horror of the Year, Nightmare Magazine, Interzone, and Southwest Review.
Philip lives in Los Angeles and is represented by Copps Literary Services, Circle M + P, and WME. You can find him on Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky, or visit pfracassi.com. -
François Baranger
Né en 1970, François Baranger est un artiste aux multiples talents. Illustrateur pour le cinéma (Harry Potter 7 ou encore La Belle et la Bête de Christophe Gans), réalisateur de quelques courts-métrages d'animation, il est aussi concept artist dans le domaine du jeu vidéo (Heavy Rain, Beyond : Two Souls). On lui doit également de nombreuses couvertures de roman, et Freaks Agency, une série de BD chez Albin Michel.
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Bernard Taylor
Bernard Taylor was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, and now lives in London. Following active service in Egypt in the Royal Air Force, he studied Fine Arts in Swindon, then at Chelsea School of Art and Birmingham University. On graduation he worked as a teacher, painter and book illustrator before going as a teacher to the United States. While there, he took up acting and writing and continued with both after his return to England. He has published ten novels under his own name, including The Godsend (1976), which was adapted for a major film, and Sweetheart, Sweetheart (1977), which Charles L. Grant has hailed as one of the finest ghost stories ever written. He has also written novels under the pseudonym Jess Foley, as well as several works of
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Jack Ketchum
Dallas William Mayr, better known by his pen name Jack Ketchum, was an American horror fiction author. He was the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. His novels included Off Season, Offspring, and Red, which were adapted to film. In 2011, Ketchum received the World Horror Convention Grand Master Award for outstanding contribution to the horror genre.
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A onetime actor, teacher, literary agent, lumber salesman, and soda jerk, Ketchum credited his childhood love of Elvis Presley, dinosaurs, and horror for getting him through his formative years. He began making up stories at a young age and explained that he spent much time in his room, or in the woods near his house, down by the brook: "[m]y interests [were] book -
Naomi Novik
An avid reader of fantasy literature since age six, when she first made her way through The Lord of the Rings, Naomi Novik is also a history buff with a particular interest in the Napoleonic era and a fondness for the work of Patrick O’Brian and Jane Austen. She studied English literature at Brown University, and did graduate work in computer science at Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadow of Undrentide. Over the course of a brief winter sojourn spent working on the game in Edmonton, Canada (accompanied by a truly alarming coat that now lives brooding in the depths of her closet), she realized she preferred writing to programming, and on returning to
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Bram Stoker
Irish-born Abraham Stoker, known as Bram, of Britain wrote the gothic horror novel Dracula (1897).
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The feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely Stoker at 15 Marino crescent, then as now called "the crescent," in Fairview, a coastal suburb of Dublin, Ireland, bore this third of seven children. The parents, members of church of Ireland, attended the parish church of Saint John the Baptist, located on Seafield road west in Clontarf with their baptized children.
Stoker, an invalid, started school at the age of seven years in 1854, when he made a complete and astounding recovery. Of this time, Stoker wrote, "I was naturally thoughtful, and the leisure of long illness gave opportunity for many thoughts which were fruitful according to their -
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a ne
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Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons is an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles, among other works that span the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres, sometimes within a single novel. Simmons's genre-intermingling Song of Kali (1985) won the World Fantasy Award. He also writes mysteries and thrillers, some of which feature the continuing character Joe Kurtz.
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Brendan Vidito
Brendan Vidito is the author of the Wonderland Award-winning collection of body horror stories, Nightmares in Ecstasy (Clash Books, 2018) and the upcoming Pornography for the End of the World (Weirdpunk Books, 2022). He also co-edited Splatterpunk Award-nominated anthology The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg (Weirdpunk Books, 2019) with Sam Richard. He lives in Ontario, surrounded by books and reptiles.
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You can visit him online at brendanvidito.com
Twitter, IG, FB @brendanvidito