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David W. Landrum
lives and writes in western Michigan. His speculative fiction has appeared in scores of journals and anthologies, including
Dark Distortions
,
At First Bite
,
Midnight Thirsts
,
Roar and Thunder
,
The Horror Zine
, and
Danse Macabre
. His novelette
The Gallery
is available from Amazon.com.

David Farland
is an award-winning
New York Times
bestselling author in science fiction and fantasy, with nearly 50 books in print, published in over 20 languages. As a novelist he has worked with such major franchises as
Star Wars
and
The Mummy
. As a video game designer he worked on games such as the #1 international best-seller
Starcraft: Brood War and Xena
. Currently, Dave is finishing up the last book in his Runelords series while he prepares to take the series to Hollywood. His latest novel
Nightingale
begins a new young adult fantasy series, has been garnering rave reviews, and has won five awards so far this year.

Jeff Chapman
writes software by day and speculative fiction when he should be sleeping.
Tales of Woe and Wonder
, available in the Amazon Kindle store, collects nine of his fantasy stories. He lives with his wife, children, and cat in a house with more books than bookshelf space. You can find him musing about words and fiction at www.jeffchapmanwriter.blogspot.com.

Rhys Hughes
was born in 1966 and began writing fiction from a young age. None of his early efforts saw print, mainly because he never submitted them anywhere or even showed them to anyone else. Those stories have all been lost. Eventually he began sending his work to editors. His first published story was called “An Ideal Vocation” and it appeared in an obscure anthology in 1992. Encouraged by this “success”, he then proceeded to bombard the British small press with hundreds of tales for almost two decades. His first book, the now legendary
Worming the Harpy
, was published by Tartarus Press in 1995. He has published many volumes since then, chiefly collections of short stories but also a few novels, in several languages.

Howard Phillips
is a veteran with multiple combat deployments afflicted with terminal wanderlust, a perpetual student raised by books, and a professional liar, that is, a fiction writer.

Fel Kian
’s first novel
Indigo Eyes
, a gothic fantasy, was published by Immanion Press. He has been indulging in imaginative fiction since he learned to read, and only stops writing these days to help raise his baby girl. A sample of his work and other information can be found on his website, www.fel-kian.com.

John “JAM” Arthur Miller
once owned an online publication. He once had some notoriety within a few writing circles. Then he died. In fact, he’s writing this bio now as one of the living dead. While lying to rest his 70+ publishing credits and much hubris, he currently rejoices in his new life of freedom, caring little about a world that looks upon him as a zombie born anew from arcane faith. Currently he is training to be a minister.

Dy Loveday
has a M.A. in creative writing from Adelaide University and she is a graduate of the Odyssey Science Fiction Fantasy Workshop 2012.

J. S. Reinhardt
writes across the horror genre, with work appealing to everyone from young adults to those with an affinity for the more extreme and explicit situations. Stay abreast of his latest works by visiting his website www.jsreinhardt.com.

Bennie L. Newsome
is a writer and graphic designer from Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author and cover illustrator of
The BoogeyMann
(YA horror/humor), and the author of
Life is no Fairytale
(YA romance/humor). In addition to his two novels, Bennie has been published in several anthologies; including Hallmark’s
Thanks, Mom
which is scheduled for publication in May of 2013. For more information, check out Bennie's website at www.bnewsome.yolasite.com.

W. H. Pugmire
has been writing Lovecraftian weird fiction since 1972, making his first sale to
Space & Time
magazine. He devoted himself to writing for the small horror magazines until Jeffrey Thomas published his first collection in 1997. His newest books include
The Strange Dark One, Uncommon Places, Some Unknown Gulf of Night,
and
Gathered Dust and Others.
Bohemians of Sesqua Valley
and
Encounters with Enoch Coffin
will appear in limited hardcover editions in 2013. He is presently attempting to write his first novel, a work inspired by August Derleth's
The Lurker at the Threshold
. Pugmire dreams in Seattle.

Josh Reynolds
is a freelance writer of moderate skill and exceptional confidence. He has written a bit, and some of it was even published. For money. By real people. His work has appeared in anthologies such as Miskatonic River Press’
Horror for the Holidays
, and in periodicals such as
Innsmouth Magazine
and
Lovecraft eZine
.

Mark Valentine’s
stories have appeared most recently in
Seventeen Stories
(2013) and
Selected Stories
(2012), both from the Swan River Press, and his tales of occult detectives can be found in
Herald of the Hidden
(2013) and
The Collected Connoisseur
(2010, with John Howard), both from Tartarus Press. He has written biographies of the Welsh mystic and supernatural fiction author Arthur Machen and the diplomat and fantasist Sarban. He edits
Wormwood
, a journal of the literature of the fantastic, supernatural and decadent. ‘Goat Songs’ reflects his love of old vinyl records, particularly the obscurer albums of the Seventies by such artists as Titus Groan and Comus. He was briefly in a progressive rock group, Ruins, before getting involved in the Eighties indie tape scene, with The Mystic Umbrellas, Radio Dromedary and a recording of a lighthouse foghorn.

Iain Grant
is an author of short stories and novels, ranging from contemporary literature to fantasy and horror. His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. His contribution to the critically acclaimed
Roads Ahead
anthology from Tindall Street Press was singly praised by the
Guardian
newspaper (September 2009). He is perhaps best known for the comic novel
Clovenhoof
, co-written with Heide Goody. The follow-up novel (which follows the continuing adventures of the earthbound Satan and Archangel Michael) will be published by Pigeon Park Press in late 2013. Iain's first solo novel
A Gateway Made Of Bone
, a sprawling SF adventure, was published in 2012. This has been followed by the Birmingham-based thriller
In Other Hands,
and the mind-bending murder mystery
IAMNOWHERE.

About the Editor

Aaron J. French
(a.k.a. A. J. French) is currently a book editor for JournalStone Publishing and the Editor-in-Chief for
Dark Discoveries
magazine—a professional, internationally distributed print magazine specializing in dark fiction, currently on its tenth year of continuous publication and distribution. He has worked with and edited such authors as David Liss, Norman Partridge, Gary A. Braunbeck, Thomas Ligotti, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jonathan Maberry, F. Paul Wilson, Glen Hirshberg, John Shirley, and many others. In 2011 he edited
Monk Punk
, an anthology of monk-themed speculative fiction and
The Shadow of the Unknown
, an anthology of nü-Lovecraftian fiction. Aaron also served as co-editor for
The Lovecraft eZine
for several months in 2012.

Aaron’s fiction has appeared in many publications including
Dark Discoveries, Black Ink Horror, Something Wicked, After Death…, Beware the Dark, Chiral Mad, The Lovecraft eZine,
and others. His zombie collection
Up From Soil Fresh
was published by Hazardous Press in 2013. Also in 2013 “The Order,” Aaron’s occult thriller novella about a Lovecraftian secret society, was published in the
Dreaming in Darkness
collection. He is currently an active member of the Horror Writers Association. His collection of mystical fiction,
Aberrations of Reality
, was published in 2014 by Crowded Quarantine Productions.

Aaron is pursuing a Religious Studies degree from the University of Arizona. His nonfiction articles on Thomas Ligotti, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Karl Edward Wagner have appeared in
Dark Discoveries
magazine, while his online column “Letters from the Edge,” focusing on the occult, spirituality, rogue scholarship, esotericism, and speculative fiction, is featured regularly on the
Nameless Digest
website. His academic papers “Toward Christian Renewal” and “Journeys of the Soul in the Afterlife: Egyptian Books of the Afterlife and Greek Orphic Mysteries” were published in the peer-reviewed journal
The Esoteric Quarterly
. He is currently a member of the ESSWE, the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism.