Stephanie Ellis
Stephanie Ellis writes dark speculative prose and poetry and has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. Her longer work includes the novels, The Five Turns of the Wheel, Reborn and The Woodcutter, and the novellas, Paused and Bottled. Her new post-apocalytpic/sci-fi/horror novel, The Barricade is due out this year!
She is a Rhysling and Elgin nominated poet, co-authoring the poetry collection, Foundlings, with Cindy O'Quinn, Lilith Rising with Shane Douglas Keene and solo work Metallurgy.
She can be found at https://stephanieellis.org
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Michael Clark
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He is also the author of "The Patience of a Dead Man" trilogy (including "The Patience of a Dead Man, "Dead Woman Scorned," "Anger is an Acid," and "The Patience of a Dead Man: COMPLETE"), which are out of print to make room for "The Legend of Mildred Wells," a retelling of TPOADM optimized as a standalone novel.
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Kev Harrison
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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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Chuck Wendig
Chuck Wendig is a novelist, a screenwriter, and a freelance penmonkey.
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He has contributed over two million words to the roleplaying game industry, and was the developer of the popular Hunter: The Vigil game line (White Wolf Game Studios / CCP).
He, along with writing partner Lance Weiler, is a fellow of the Sundance Film Festival Screenwriter's Lab (2010). Their short film, Pandemic, will show at the Sundance Film Festival 2011, and their feature film HiM is in development with producer Ted Hope.
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Robert W. Chambers
Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.
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Chambers was first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute,and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893, and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. On his return to New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (written in 1887 in Munich). His most famous, and perhaps most meritorious, effort is The King in Yellow, a collection of weird sho -
Tim Lebbon
I love writing, reading, triathlon, real ale, chocolate, good movies, occasional bad movies, and cake.
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I was born in London in 1969, lived in Devon until I was eight, and the next twenty years were spent in Newport. My wife Tracey and I then did a Good Thing and moved back to the country, and we now live in the little village of Goytre in Monmouthshire with our kids Ellie and Daniel. And our dog, Blu, who is the size of a donkey.
I love the countryside ... I do a lot of running and cycling, and live in the best part of the world for that.
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He writes short stories too. Some of them were gathered together in his prize-winning collection, 20th Century Ghosts.
He won the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long running comic book series, Locke & Key, co-created with illustrator and art wizard Gabriel Rodriguez.
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Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese, MD, MACP, is Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine.
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Born of Indian parents who were teachers in Ethiopia, he grew up near Addis Ababa and began his medical training there. When Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed, he completed his training at Madras Medical College and went to the United States for his residency as one of many foreign medical graduates. Like many others, he found only the less popular hospitals and communities open to him, an experience he described in one of his early New Yorker articles, The Cowpath to America.
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Stephen Graham Jones
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Tim Dry
Tim Dry played J’Quille – Whiphid and a Mon Calamari Officer in Star Wars Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi. He also played The Alien in the cult Horror / Sci Fi movie XTRO.
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In the early to mid 1980s he was half of the legendary robotic mime / music duo Tik & Tok. They released 5 singles and a chart album Intolerance in the UK, Europe and Japan. They supported Duran Duran, Adam Ant, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan and Ultravox. Tik & Tok reformed briefly in 2005 and wrote, recorded and released a brand new album Dream Orphans in 2007, which is still available on the official Tik & Tok website.
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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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Nicole Cushing
Nicole Cushing is the Bram Stoker Award® winning author of Mr. Suicide and a two-time nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award.
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Various reviewers have described her work as “brutal”, “cerebral”, “transgressive”, "wickedly funny", “taboo”, “groundbreaking” and “mind-bending”.
Rue Morgue magazine included Nicole in its list of 13 Wicked Women to Watch, praising her as an “an intense and uncompromising literary voice”. She has also garnered praise from Jack Ketchum, Thomas Ligotti, and Poppy Z. Brite (aka, Billy Martin).
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Nat Cassidy
NAT CASSIDY is a national bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-nominated author whose acclaimed works include Mary ("One of the Best Horror Novels of All Time" - Audible), Nestlings, and Rest Stop. Esquire described him as one "of the best horror writers of this generation" and among the writers "shaping horror's next golden age." His award-winning plays have been produced across the country, including Off-Broadway and the Kennedy Center. You've also maybe seen Nat guest-starring on shows such as Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Bull, Quantico, FBI, and many others ... but that's a topic for a different bio. His newest novel, When the Wolf Comes Home, hit shelves in April 2025 and was called "a classic" by Stephen King. He lives in New York City
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Grady Hendrix
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Barbie Wilde
Barbie Wilde is a Canadian-born British actress and writer. She is best known for portraying the Female Cenobite in 'Hellbound: Hellraiser II'.
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#1 best selling horror magazine Fangoria has called Wilde "one of the finest purveyor of erotically charged horror around".
Barbie Wilde's first dark crime novel, 'The Venus Complex', is out now and is published by Comet Press. The cover art for 'The Venus Complex' is by award-winning artist Daniele Serra.
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Nick Cutter
Hello Everybody!
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I figured this bio was looking a little cobwebby, so here to update it a bit (Sept 2025). What's changed in the decade since I wrote my initial bio? Mmmm, not a lot. I still enjoy bubblebaths, strong coffee and passionate conversations, moonlit walks on the beach, eldritch horrors and biological horrors run amuck.
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Jon Bassoff
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His novels have been lauded by authors like Craig Johnson (LONGMIRE series), James Grady (SIX DAYS OF THE CONDOR), Rob Hart (THE WAREHOUSE), Paul Trembley (A HEADFUL OF GHOSTS), S.A. Cosby (RAZOR -
Ritchie Valentine Smith
It's epic fantasy I write now, the 'Words of Power' series - colorful, multicultural high fantasy, in the spirit of Robert Jordan and George R. R. Martin. Otherwise...
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Ritchie Valentine Smith was once a social worker, once a poet, and once on the BBC ‘New Talent’ program. His interest in fantasy and SF started when he was a boy on Tyneside fascinated by alternate realities. His work appeared in anthologies with the likes of Keith Roberts, Brian Aldiss and Robert Holdstock. His interest in the East was fuelled when he read Clavell’s masterpiece ‘Shogun’. He is still a member of the Crime Writers’ Association (having done three thrillers in the 90s). His play 'Rocket Man' was on at the Pleasance (Edinburgh) and the Union Theatre (London) where -
Kev Harrison
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David Sodergren
David Sodergren lives in Scotland with his wife Heather and his best friend, Boris the Pug.
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Growing up, he was the kind of kid who collected rubber skeletons and lived for horror movies. Not much has changed since then.
His best known books include the gory and romantic fairy tale The Haar, the blood-drenched folk-horror Maggie’s Grave, and the analog-horror fever dream Rotten Tommy. David also writes under the pseudonym Carl John Lee, publishing splatterpunk
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Stephanie Wrobel
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Michael Clark
Michael Clark is an author of horror fiction, having written the books Hell on High and The Legend of Mildred Wells.
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He is also the author of "The Patience of a Dead Man" trilogy (including "The Patience of a Dead Man, "Dead Woman Scorned," "Anger is an Acid," and "The Patience of a Dead Man: COMPLETE"), which are out of print to make room for "The Legend of Mildred Wells," a retelling of TPOADM optimized as a standalone novel.
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L.V. Russell
Lydia grew up on a farm deep in the Dorset countryside alongside her three elder brothers, using the fields and woodland as their playground.
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As an adult with two young children, she has used the memories of the wild woods of her youth to write The Wicked Woods Chronicles
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Joshua Hull
Joshua Hull is an author, screenwriter (GLORIOUS), and filmmaker living in Central Indiana. His books include:
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Mallory Arnold
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Allison Gunn
Allison Gunn is a researcher, writer, and tarot reader with a penchant for all things whimsical and strange. An alum of University of Maryland, Allison has extensively studied marginalized communities as well as folklore.
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She currently resides in the wonderfully weird land of West Virginia with her twin daughters, precocious pup, and one seriously troubled tabby.
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Johanna van Veen
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John Ashley
John Ashley is a freelance writer and indie author who lives in Springfield, Missouri. What started as a love for ghost stories and Goosebumps books turned into a lifelong passion for all things horror, and writing horror books is the bloody, beating heart of that passion. When he’s not writing, John enjoys watching sports, spending time outdoors, and hanging out with his wife and their three pets.
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Tim Dry
Tim Dry played J’Quille – Whiphid and a Mon Calamari Officer in Star Wars Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi. He also played The Alien in the cult Horror / Sci Fi movie XTRO.
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In the early to mid 1980s he was half of the legendary robotic mime / music duo Tik & Tok. They released 5 singles and a chart album Intolerance in the UK, Europe and Japan. They supported Duran Duran, Adam Ant, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan and Ultravox. Tik & Tok reformed briefly in 2005 and wrote, recorded and released a brand new album Dream Orphans in 2007, which is still available on the official Tik & Tok website.
Tim is also an award-winning Photographic Artist, whose subjects have included Mick Jagger, Barbie Wilde, Steven Berkoff, The Mediaeval Baebes, author Rupert Th -
Ritchie Valentine Smith
It's epic fantasy I write now, the 'Words of Power' series - colorful, multicultural high fantasy, in the spirit of Robert Jordan and George R. R. Martin. Otherwise...
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Ritchie Valentine Smith was once a social worker, once a poet, and once on the BBC ‘New Talent’ program. His interest in fantasy and SF started when he was a boy on Tyneside fascinated by alternate realities. His work appeared in anthologies with the likes of Keith Roberts, Brian Aldiss and Robert Holdstock. His interest in the East was fuelled when he read Clavell’s masterpiece ‘Shogun’. He is still a member of the Crime Writers’ Association (having done three thrillers in the 90s). His play 'Rocket Man' was on at the Pleasance (Edinburgh) and the Union Theatre (London) where -
Luisa Colón
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