THE CONTRIBUTORS
KELLEY ARMSTRONG
is the author of the
Women of the Otherworld
paranormal suspense series, the
Darkest Powers
YA urban fantasy trilogy, and the Nadia Stafford crime series. She grew up in Ontario, Canada, where she still lives with her family.
AIMEEBENDER
is the author of three books; the most recent is the story collection
Willful Creatures
. Her short fiction has been published in
Granta
,
Harper’s Magazine
,
The Paris Review
,
Tin House
, and more, as well as heard on PRI’s
This American Life
. She lives in L.A. and teaches creative writing at USC.
STEPHEN R . BISSETTE
has won many industry awards as a cartoonist, writer, editor, and publisher. A pioneer graduate of the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, he currently teaches at the Center for Cartoon Studies and is renowned for
Saga of the Swamp Thing
,
Taboo
(in which
From Hell
and
Lost Girls
were originally published),
1963
,
S. R. Bissette’s Tyrant®,
and cocreating the character John Constantine. He illustrates books and has authored fiction (including the Bram Stoker Award-winning
Aliens: Tribes
) and nonfiction (
Comic Book Rebels
,
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Monster Book
, and more). His papers reside in Huie Library’s Special Collections at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He most recently coauthored
Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman
and illustrated
The Vermont Monster Guide
(by Joseph A. Citro). Visit his Web site at
www.srbissette.com
.
MAXBROOKS
’
s
The Zombie Survival Guide
formed the core of the world’s civilian survival manuals during the Zombie War. Mr Brooks subsequently spent years traveling to every part of the globe in order to conduct the face-to-face interviews that have been incorporated into
World War Z
, which was a
New York Times
bestseller.
MIKE CAREY
is the author of the Felix Castor novels, published in the U.S. by Orbit, and of a great many comic book series. He is probably best known for his unbroken run on
Lucifer
, a sequel of sorts to Neil Gaiman’s
The Sandman
, but he has also written the
Fantastic Four
,
Daredevil
,
Hellblazer
,
Vampirella
, and
Red Sonja.
He is currently writing
X-Men Legacy
for Marvel and
The Unwritten
for DC’s Vertigo Comics, as well as doing game design for Electronic Arts and working on the sixth Castor novel.
JOHN CONNOLLY
was born in Dublin in 1968. He is the author of twelve books, the latest of which,
The Lovers
and
The Gates
, will be published in 2009. For further information, visit his Web site at
www.johnconnollybooks.com
.
CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN
previously edited three volumes of Hellboy short stories and coedited the anthology
British Invasion
. He is the author of such novels as
The Myth Hunters
,
The Boys Are Back in Town
,
Of Saints and Shadows
, and (with Tim Lebbon)
The Map of Moments
. Golden cowrote the lavishly illustrated novel
Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire
with Mike Mignola. He has also written books for teens and young adults, including the zombie novel
Soulless
and the thriller series
Body of Evidence
. He has also written short stories, novellas, articles, video games, nonfiction books, and scripts for film and television. Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. His original novels have been published in more than fourteen languages in countries around the world. Please visit his Web site at
www.christophergolden.com
.
RICK HAUTALA
, under his own name and the pseudonym A. J. Matthews, has published more than thirty novels and story collections, including the million-copy best seller
Nightstone
, and more than fifty short stories in a variety of national and international magazines and anthologies. He is currently cowriting
Graffito
, a Web series, with Mark Steensland, who has also directed award-winning films based on his scripts, including
peekers
,
Lovecraft’s Pillow
, and
The Ugly File
. He lives in Maine. You can visit his Web site at
www.rickhautala.com
.
JOE HILL’s
first book was the Bram Stoker Award-winning story collection
20th Century Ghosts
(PS Publishing). He followed it with the
New York Times
best-selling novel
Heart Shaped Box
and an Eisner Award-nominated comic,
Locke & Key
. You can find him on Twitter under the name joe_hill.
M. B. HOMLER
is a writer and editor living in New York City. He works with many terrific authors and is working on a novel.
BRIAN KEENE
is the author of more than twenty books, including
Urban Gothic
,
Castaways
,
Ghost Walk
,
Dark Hollow
,
Kill Whitey
,
Unhappy Endings
,
Dead Sea
, and many more. He also writes comic books for Marvel Comics and others. Several of his novels and stories have been optioned for film, one of which,
The Ties That Bind
, premiered in 2009, and another of which,
Dark Hollow
, is in postproduction. The winner of two Bram Stoker Awards, Keene’s work has been praised in such diverse places as the
New York Times
, the History Channel, the
Howard Stern Show
,
CNN.com
,
Publishers Weekly, Fangoria
magazine, and
Rue Morgue
magazine. Keene lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, son, dog, and cat. You can communicate with him online at
www.briankeene.com
.
JOE R. LANSDALE
is the author of more than thirty novels and two hundred short stories and articles. His work has received the Edgar Award, seven Bram Stoker Awards, the British Fantasy Award, the Herodotus Award, two
New York Times
Notable Book Awards, and many others. His novella
Bubba Ho-Tep
was made into a film of the same name, and his story ‘Incident On and Off a Mountain Road’ was made into a film for Showtime’s
Masters of Horror
. His most recent releases are the novel
Vanilla Ride
, a Hap and Leonard adventure, and
The Portable Lansdale: Sanctified and Chicken Fried.
He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas.
TIM LEBBON
is a
New York Times
-bestselling writer from South Wales. He’s had almost twenty novels published to date, including
The Island
,
The Map of Moments
(with Christopher Golden),
Fallen
,
Hellboy: The Fire Wolves
,
Dusk
, and
Bar None
, as well as scores of novellas and short stories. He has won three British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Scribe Award, and has also been a finalist for International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Awards. Several of his novels and novellas are currently in development for the screen in the U.S. and U.K. Find out more about Tim at his Web site
www.timlebbon.net
.
DAVID LISS
is the author of six novels, most recently
The Devil’s Company
. He has five previous best-selling novels:
A Conspiracy of Paper
, winner of the 2000 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author,
The Coffee Trader
,
A Spectacle of Corruption
,
The Ethical Assassin
, and
The Whiskey Rebels
. In 2008, at the United Nations Convention against Corruption in Bali, Indonesia, he was named an Artist for Integrity by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. No one is really sure why he should receive this honor or what it means, but it very possibly makes him the Bono of historical fiction. David Liss’s novels have been translated into more than two dozen languages. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and children, and can be reached via his Web site,
www.davidliss.com
.
JONATHAN MABERRY
is the multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of
Patient Zero, Ghost Road Blues
,
Zombie CSU
,
They Bite!
and
The Wolfman
, among others. He is the regular writer for Marvel Comics’
Black Panther
and has written stories for
Wolverine
,
Spider- Man
,
Punisher
, and
Marvel Zombies
. Jonathan has sold more than twelve hundred feature articles, numerous short stories, plays, video scripts, song lyrics, twenty nonfiction books, and several novels. He is president of the Pennsylvania/New Jersey chapter of the Horror Writers Association and a contributing editor for
The Big Thrill
, the monthly newsletter of the International Thriller Writers. He is also the cocreator of
On the Slab
, a horror entertainment news show in development for Disney/ABC. Jonathan is an eighth-degree black belt in jujutsu and in 2004 was inducted into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame. Find his Web site at
www.jonathanmaberry.com
.
JAMES A. MOORE
is the author of more than twenty novels, including the critically acclaimed
Fireworks
,
Under The Overtree
,
Blood Red
, the
Serenity Falls
trilogy (featuring his recurring antihero, Jonathan Crowley), and
Deeper
. He has twice been nominated for the Bram Stoker Award and spent three years as an officer in the Horror Writers Association, first as secretary and later as vice president. Moore’s first short story collection,
Slices
, sold out before ever seeing print. He recently finished his latest novel,
Smile No More
, a story of Rufo the Clown. His latest Jonathan Crowley novel,
Cherry Hill
, is slated for release in 2009. He lives in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife, Bonnie, and their menagerie, which includes one dog, four cats, eight ducks, many fish, and a parrot named Dos. Please drop by his Web site at
www.jimshorror.com
or leave him a note on his bulletin board at
www.horrorworld.org
.
HOLLY NEWSTEIN
’s short fiction has appeared in
Cemetery Dance
magazine and
Borderlands 5
anthology. She is the coauthor of the novels
Ashes
and
The Epicure
, published by Berkley Books under the pen name H. R. Howland. She lives in Maine with the author Rick Hautala.
DEREK NIKITAS
is the author of the novel
Pyres
(St Martin’s Minotaur, 2007) nominated for a Best First Novel Edgar Allan Poe Award. His second novel with St Martin’s Minotaur,
The Long Division
, will be published in October 2009. His short stories have appeared in
Ontario Review
,
Chelsea
,
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
,
New South
, and
The Pedestal Magazine
, among other publications. He has received a nomination for a Pushcart Prize and a 2007 fellowship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He received his MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and is currently teaching creative writing in the brief- residency MFA program at Eastern Kentucky University.
DAVID WELLINGTON
is the author of seven novels. His zombie novels
Monster Island
,
Monster Nation
, and
Monster Planet
(Thunder’s Mouth Press) form a complete trilogy. He has also written a series of vampire novels, including (so far)
13 Bullets
,
99 Coffins
,
Vampire Zero
, and
23 Hours
(Three Rivers Press). As an undergraduate he attended Syracuse University; in 1996 he received an MFA in Creative Writing from Penn State; and in 2006 he received an MLS from Pratt Institute. Mr Wellington currently resides in New York City with his wife, Elisabeth, and their dog, Mary. For more information please visit
www.davidwellington.net
.
TAD WILLIAMS
is primarily a novelist, known for such fantasy and science-fiction books as
Tailchaser’s Song
,
War of the Flowers
, and the multivolume stories
Memory
,
Sorrow
,
and Thorn
, the
Shadowmarch
books, and
Otherland
. He is also writing all-ages fiction - the
Ordinary Farm
books - with his wife Deborah Beale. They live in a friendly but chaotic house in the San Francisco Bay Area with their two extremely well-behaved children and an army of very wicked pets.