Kenneth C. Goldman

Previous high school English and Film Studies teacher (Horror and Science Fiction in Film and Literature) at George Washington High School in, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Member of the former GWA, the Genre Writers Association. Member of HWA, the Horror Writers Association.

Charles Squire

Charles Squire is a writer living in New York City. 'Jolly Bear Goes to School' is his first published story.

Mark Howard Jones

Mark Howard Jones has had numerous stories published in print and online magazines on both sides of the Atlantic. He works as an online journalist and lives in Cardiff in South Wales, next door to England. He is not working on a novel; he concentrates on writing short stories because he has a short fuse.

Dave Lipscomb

A native Rhode Islander, Dave Lipscomb is a recovering East Coaster currently residing in Southern California. A graduate of some tiny community art college somewhere in New Haven, his first written work appeared in an issue of the legendary New Haven underground 'zine Vicarious Thrill in the late 80's. His international art debut appeared in a '93 issue of the British goth 'zine Roisin Dubh. He has also created many works on commission and collaborated on many super-obscure self-published comic books. When not doing time as a wage slave for Der Ubermaus, Dave spends his time drawing, writing, and playing bass guitar.

Matt Sesow

"Matt is a true Brutarian, a self-taught painter who, despite having his work extensively shown and written about, has little interest in becoming part of the art network. Sesow appears unconcerned with communicating in the accepted tropes of the professional; he defers to no recognized code, nor to the rules of any recognized idiom. "Crude!" "Unfinished!" "Aberrant!" the boulevardier may jeer, but it may well be that Matt's approach results in a creative range beyond the normal compass of our responses. . .Perhaps not, nevertheless, Mr. Sesow has created a fascinating body of work."

--Interivew with Matt Sesow from "Brutarian" magazine, issue #28

Matt Sesow is a self-taught artist and short filmmaker living in Washington D.C. he has sold hundreds of paintings, and had many solo exhibits. He has also done several lectures and published articles. He maintains an extensive and often updated website of his work at www.sesow.com

Mark McLaughlin

Mark McLaughlin's fiction, nonfiction, poetry and artwork have appeared in more than 475 magazines, anthologies and websites, including Galaxy, The Black Gate, The Last Continent: New Tales Of Zothique, all three volumes of Bending The Landscape, The Book Of All Flesh, The Book of More Flesh, Darkness Rising, The Best Of HorrorFind, Best Of The Rest 2 and 3, The Best Of Palace Corbie, and The Year's Best Horror Stories XXI and XXII (DAW Books). Recent collections of his work include Once Upon A Slime, The Gossamer Eye (which recently won the Bram Stoker award) and Professor LaGungo's Exotic Artifacts & Assorted Mystic Collectibles. Also, he is the editor of The Urbanite: Surreal & Lively & Bizarre. The Urbanite is becoming an annual anthology, and more information on that development will be posted at Mark's website, http://www.geocities.com/mcmonstrous

Mark often performs readings of his stories and poetry. He has given readings at literary conventions all over the country, and twice in England.

Alexis Child

Alexis Child's fiction has been featured in The House Of Pain and will see publication in the forthcoming paperback, "Top International Horror 2003" hosted by Rainfall Books. Her poetry has appeared/is scheduled to appear in such publications as The Aether Sanctum, Coma, Chaos Butterfly, Kuahji's Realm, Not Dead but Dreaming, Decompositions, The Dream People, Gothic Fairy Tales, Planet Prozak, Skin and Bones, The Harrow, Wounded Flesh, Broken Mind, Locust Magazine, The Midnight Gallery and elsewhere.

Dale Michael Houstman

51 years of age, born in King's Lynn, England, and now lives in Minneapolis Minnesota. With friends Tom Clarkson and Barret John Erickson, he produces an irregular surrealist publication called "Blue Feathers" and also musical projects of an "undefined" quality. "Poetry is the main by-product of an obstructed colon minced in a cosmopolitan fashion, and acid-stressed to bring out highlights."— Therman R. Rugport

Dana Ellyn

My passion for art started early in life and has never wavered. I am now a full time artist - creating new photographs, paintings, and teaching art classes from my studio in Washington DC.

In February of 2002 I left the security of a corporate job to pursue my lifelong aspiration of being a full time artist. I have had to make numerous lifestyle changes in order to afford this decision. Now being outside of the "9 to 5" world, I can see clearly the overwhelming focus on consuming in our society. This ever growing awareness influences the subject matter of my art. Living in DC, I see such a wide range of social and economic conditions. I create images that are a reflection of the people and events that shape my life.

To see more of Dana's work visit her website www.danaellynart.com

Charlee Jacob

Charlee Jacob has some 700 publishing credits, mostly in small press. Some of her current work can be seen in The Darker Side, The Best of Dreams of Decadance, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #13, The Years Best Fantasy and Horror #15, Leisure novels This Symbiotic Fascination and Haunter, and a free collection of poetry online at www.miniaturesunpress.com/ called Cardinal Sins. She has work coming out soon in The Dark Arts, microSHOCKS, The Decay Within, and will be featured in the soon-to-be-debuted magazine The Horror Within. She has three novels recently accepted. One is the novelization of her Bram Stoker Award-nominated novella, Dread In The Beast, to be published by Necro. The second is Vestal, to be published by Delirium. The third is Dark Moods, to be published by DNA which will also be published her newest collection, The Indigo People. She is a resident of Irving, Texas where she lives with her husband, Jim. 

Tim Curran

Tim Curran lives in Michigan, works in a factory by day, and writes horror, crime, and westerns by night. His tales have appeared in many small press magazines including Flesh and Blood, City Slab, and Black October, as well as in anthologies such as Crime Spree, Weird Trails, and WarFear.  His crime novel, STREET RATS, is now available from PublishAmerica (www.publishamerica.com). PublishAmerica will also be bringing out Tim's horror novel, TOXIC SHADOWS, later this year. Two dark westerns, SKULL MOON and GRIM RIDERS, will be published in 2004 by Amber Quill Press. And his supernatural horror/western, SKIN MEDICINE, has recently been accepted by Hellbound Books. You can find Tim Curran on the web at:
http://www.darkanimus.com/curran.html

Danny Swain

Danny Swain(otherwise know as Albie)Lives in Hull, Englandshireland. He likes to drink, eat and watch TV. Dull hobbies such as writing and playing guitar are other things that seperate him from being a pile of bio-sludge. God he depresses me. His site is... http://dannyswain.1accesshost.com/garden_of_pain.htm

Christopher Hivner

Christopher Hivner has recently been published in Black October, NFG, Savage Night and Decompositions.