ALGERNON HENRY BLACKWOOD, CBE (1869–1951) was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. He was born in Shooter’s Hill, Kent, England and, after schooling in Europe, Blackwood’s father sent him to Canada in 1887 on business. (more…)
Bruce Blake lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. When pressing issues like shovelling snow and building igloos don’t take up his spare time, Bruce can be found taking the dog sled to the nearest coffee shop to work on his short stories and novels.
Actually, Victoria, B.C. is only a couple hours north of Seattle, Wash., where more rain is seen than snow. Since snow isn’t really a pressing issue, Bruce spends more time trying to remember to leave the “u” out of words like “colour” and “neighbour” than he does shovelling (and watch out for those pesky double l’s).
Bruce’s first short story, “Another Man’s Shoes” was published in the Winter 2008 edition of Cemetery Moon. Another short, “Yardwork,” was made into a podcast in Oct., 2011 by PseudoPod. Bruce’s first Icarus Fell novel, “On Unfaithful Wings”, was published in Dec., 2011 while the follow up, “All Who Wander Are Lost”, came out in July, 2012.
Bruce is currently hard at work on the fourth installment of the Books of the Small Gods. Blood of the King, the first book of the Khirro’s Journey trilogy will be out in July, 2016.
Jasmine Blake has been an avid enthusiast of fiction throughout her life and she is thrilled to be involved with this project.
Larry Blamire is a writer, director, actor, artist, playwright known for feature films The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, Trail of the Screaming Forehead, The Lost Skeleton Returns Again and Dark and Stormy Night plus the audio series Big Dan Frater. He has authored two volumes of western horror Tales of the Callamo Mountains, a novel Doc Armstrong: Suburb at the Edge of Never and the recently released his epic graphic novel Steam Wars. Larry’s play of Robin Hood has been performed worldwide and he regularly writes and illustrates for RPGs. A proud recipient of three Rondo Awards, he contributes to numerous sci-fi and horror Blu-ray commentary tracks. Larry is currently developing a retro-absurdist comic Flapjack Alley
Benjamin Blattberg is a software developer, improviser, and writer currently living in Austin, TX, as long as there are no followup questions on any of those facts. His stories have appeared in Tina Connolly’s Toasted Cake, Crossed Genres, Pornokitsch, and Podcastle.
Robert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. Best known as the writer of Psycho (1959), the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock, which really blew the doors off Plainfield, Wisconsin. While this little town would have liked nothing more than to continue to pretend nothing bad ever happens in the Badger State, their neighbor Bloch had different ideas. The Library of America selected Bloch’s essay “The Shambles of Ed Gein” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American true crime.
Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He won the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He served a term as president of the Mystery Writers of America and was a member of that organization and of Science Fiction Writers of America, the Writers Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Count Dracula Society.
