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Ramsey Campbell lives on Merseyside with his wife Jenny. His pleasures include classical music, good food and wine, and whatever’s in that pipe. His web site is at www.ramseycampbell.com.

Brett Bruton ~
writes exclusively during the hours that are most inconvenient for him. As such, the majority of his editing process involves removing curse words. Brett writes horror because comedy is too difficult and ‘blood’ is easy to spell.

Find him on twitter: @BrettRexB

Karen Runge ~
was born in Paris, France. The daughter of a diplomat, her family lived in France and then Gabon before returning to their native South Africa when she was a young child.

She is a horror writer, sometimes an artist, and works teaching adults English as a second language. Her works have appeared in Shock Totem, Pseudopod, Something Wicked, Pantheon magazine, Structo, and Sirens Call, among others. She lives in Beijing, China, with a wonderful Italian. You can find her at karenrunge.wordpress.com.

Tom Dullemond ~ stumbled out of university with a double degree in Medieval/Renaissance studies and Software Engineering. One of these degrees got him a job and he has been writing and working in IT ever since. Tom writes primarily short fiction across all genres, including literary fiction and the occasional poem. He co-authored
The Machine Who Was Also a Boy
, the first in a series of philosophical fantasy adventures for middle-grade students, and writes a regular flash fiction column for The Helix science magazine.

He is currently involved with the www.streetreads.com project, delivering a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style location-based story for the Brisbane City Council, as well as featuring in the forthcoming
‘Unfettered’
anthology by Tiny Owl Workshop.

His website is www.tomdullemond.com and he can be found on Twitter @cacotopos.

Wendy Hammer ~
teaches literature and composition at a community college. Her stories can be found in the anthology
Gaia: Shadows and Breath
(Pantheon Magazine) and on
Crooked/Shift
,
Liquid Imagination
, and
Every Day Fiction.
Her trilogy of dark urban fantasy novellas,
Cross Cutting
, has been acquired by Apocalypse Ink Productions.

She can be found online at her website
www.wendyhammer.com
and on twitter @Wendyhammer13.

Wendy lives in Indiana with her husband.

Shane McKenzie ~ is the author of
Infinity House, All You Can Eat, Bleed on Me, Jacked, Addicted to the Dead, Muerte Con Carne, Escape from Shit Town (
co-authored with Sam W. Anderson and Erik Williams),
Fat Off Sex and Violence, Pus Junkies, Stork, Fairy, The Bingo Hall, Parasite Deep
, and many more to come. He also writes comics for Zenescope Entertainment.

He wrote the script for a short film entitled M is for Matador, filmed by LuchaGore Productions, which was selected by DraftHouse Films to be included in the DVD
The ABCs of Death 1.5
. LuchaGore Productions will be filming a short film based on the first chapter of his novel
Muerte Con Carne
, entitled
El Gigante
.

He lives in Austin, TX with his wife and daughter. He will find you and he will cut you.

His website is: www.shanemckenzie.org

Sarah Read ~
writes, reads, and knits near Rocky Mountain National Park. She is fiction editor for Pantheon Magazine. Her work can be found in Black Static, Revolt Daily, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, and forthcoming in anthologies from Dark House Press and Thunderdome Press.

You can follow her on twitter @inkwellmonster.

Benjamin Knox ~ rogue author,
wanders the post-apocalyptic landscape that is modern publishing, never staying long in one place lest the degenerate mutants get his scent and devour him to the bone. Relying only on his wits and armed with his trusty keyboard he flits from the outposts of genre press, braving the radioactive, cannibal infested, wastes of indie publishing that lay between. During his adventures he delivers up tales of the strange, eerie and unsettling. Dare you open those pages and glean what is within?

For further strangeness find him at: benjaminknox.net

Or:

Pulpocalypse.tumblr.com

John Everson ~ is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels
Covenant
(2004),
Sacrifice
(2007),
The 13th
(2009),
Siren
(2010), and
The Pumpkin Man
(2011). All of these novels were released in paperback by Dorchester/Leisure Books. Limited hardcover editions were also issued from Delirium Books, Necro Publications and Bad Moon Books. Covenant, Sacrifice and Siren have been translated or are in the process of being translated and released in Poland, Turkey, France and Germany.

John’s sixth novel,
NightWhere,
was released by Samhain Publishing in 2012.

Over the past 20 years, John’s short fiction has appeared in more than 50 magazines, including Space & Time, Dark Discoveries and Grue, as well as in a couple dozen anthologies, most recently in
Necro Files: Two Decades of Extreme Horror
,
The Green Hornet Casebook
,
Kolchak: The Night Stalker Casebook
,
Best New Werewolf Tales (Vol. 1)
,
Best New Vampire Tales (Vol. 1)
,
Best New Zombie Tales (Vol. 2)
and
Fell Beasts
. His short stories have also been translated and published into Italian, Polish and French. A wide selection of his short fiction has been collected in five short story collections:
Deadly Nightlusts
(Blasphemous Books, 2010),
Creeptych
(Delirium Books 2010)
, Needles & Sins
(Necro Books, 2007),
Vigilantes of Love
(Twilight Tales, 2003) and
Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions
(Delirium Books, 2000).

“Letting Go,” one of the short stories from
Needles & Sins
was nominated for a 2007 Bram Stoker Award and three other short stories from the collection have been included in the Honorable Mention List of the annual
Year’s Best Fantasy & Horro
r anthology co-edited by Ellen Datlow.

Angela Slatter ~ specializes in Dark Fantasy and Horror fiction. She is the author of the Aurealis Award-winning
The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales
, the World Fantasy Award finalist
Sourdough and Other Stories
, and the Aurealis finalist
Midnight and Moonshine
(with Lisa L. Hannett). Angela’s short stories have appeared in such writerly venues as
The Mammoth Book of New Horror #22, Fantasy
, Nightmare and Lightspeed
Magazines
, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud
Wristlet
,
Fearie Tales, A Book of Horrors, Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded
, and Australian and US Best Of anthologies.

She is the first Australian to win a British Fantasy Award (for “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter” in
A Book of Horrors
, Stephen Jones, ed.).

In 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, and is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006.

Forthcoming in 2014 are the collections
The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings
(a prequel to Sourdough and Other Stories) from Tartarus Press, and The Female Factory (with Lisa L. Hannett), the last in the Twelfth Planet Press “Twelve Planets” series.

Angela has recently finished an urban fantasy novel Vigil, (based on the short story Brisneyland by Night) and has started the sequel, Corpselight. She is also completing work on her Queensland Writers Fellowship mosaic novel, The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales.

Acknowledgements

“Burning” by Rayne Hall originally appeared (in a greatly different form) in the E-zine Byzarium.

“Spirits Having Flown”, copyright 2003 by John Everson. Originally published in MOTA 3: Courage, by Triple Tree Publishing.

“Digging Deep”, copyright 2007 by Ramsey Campbell. Originally appeared in Phobic, edited by Andy Murray.

Fit Camp, copyright 2010 by Shane McKenzie. Originally appeared in Dark Recesses magazine.

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