Chris Lewis Carter is an award-winning screenwriter and author who has been featured in dozens of publications, ranging from high school Language Arts textbooks to Stoker-nominated fiction collections. His horror short film, House Hunting, was named an Official Selection at both the 2015 Hollyshorts and Sunscreen Film Festivals.
He lives in Newfoundland, Canada, with his wife, three cats, a stubborn Shar-Pei, and a lazy Greyhound.
Scott William Carter’s first novel, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys, was hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “touching and impressive debut” and won an Oregon Book Award. Since then, he has published many books and short stories, his fiction spanning a wide variety of genres and styles. His book for younger readers, Wooden Bones, chronicles the untold story of Pinocchio and was singled out for praise by the Junior Library Guild. He is also the author of the popular Garrison Gage mystery seriesset on the Oregon coast, as well as the provocative Myron Vale Investigations, about the private investigator in Portland, Oregon who works for both the living and the dead. (more…)
Jay Caselberg is an Australian science fiction writer. He has also used the name ‘James Hartley’ for some of his short fiction. His four novels to date are the Jack Stein series, comprising Wyrmhole, Metal Sky, The Star Tablet and Wall of Mirrors, published 2003-2006 by Roc Books. Subsequent works appeared mostly in the small press comprising “Empties”, “The Jackal Dreaming” as J.A Caselberg, “The Memory Box” and “Breath” as Jackson Creed. His short fiction continues to appear in many anthologies and magazines.
Rachel grew up running wild on horseback in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. As a result, she can’t ride a bicycle to save her life. She likes airplanes, cave diving, and technology.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pseudopod, Dark Moon Digest, The Molotov Cocktail (Pushcart nominated), and others.
She currently lives on Salt Spring Island, B.C., with two yellow dogs of questionable provenance.
Mort Castle has three times been Guest of Honor at the World Horror Convention, has had multiple nominations for the Bram Stoker Award and the Pushcart Prize, and was cited as one of “21 Leaders in the Arts for the 21st Century in Chicago” by the Star/Sun-Times Newspaper Group. He won the Readers’ Choice Black Quill Award for Best Non-Fiction Work for editing ON WRITING HORROR (2007) and the collection, Ksicyc na Wodzie (MOON ON THE WATER) was considered one of the “Best Books Published in Poland” in 2008. The hardbound edition of J. N. Williamson’s MASQUES, Mort Castle Editorial Director, presenting horror stories in comics format, is available from Checker Book Publishing Group.
Shannon Celebi: writer, mother and superhero extraordinaire. Shannon has the power to alter time, create new realities, turn water into wine, and bring peace to warring nations…all while cooking dinner, cleaning the house, and receiving accolades as “Mother of the Year” from her mostly-grateful 17 year old son.
Shannon is a magnificent multi-tasker; while working on the sequel to her novel, Everywhere That Mary Went, she acts as Chief Editor and Marketing Director for an online publishing firm in Ashland, Oregon.
Jonathan M. Chaffin is the designer and writer behind the Cthulhu tiki mug and other horror-themed barware collections from Horror In Clay; each object has a backstory and contributes to a narrative for the collection. He also co-owns Mug Crate, the quarterly tiki mug subscription box, has narrated and designed for Pseudopod, and frequently speaks on all things tiki, horror, crowdfunding, and pop culture at events like DragonCon and Anachrocon. He also writes horror movie reviews for The Collinsport Historical Society from time to time.
Jonathan also designed the original identity work for Pseudopod.org and Escape Artists as well as several t-shirts and ads. With his wife Allison he briefly managed PodDisk.
ROBERT W. CHAMBERS (1865 – 1933) was an American artist and writer. He studied art in Paris and sold illustrations to “Life”, “Truth”, and “Vogue” magazine. His first novel, IN THE QUARTER (1887) was influenced by the Decadent writers and in 1895 he published THE KING IN YELLOW, a collection of Art Nouveau short stories. This included several famous weird short stories which are connected by the theme of a fictitious drama, “The King in Yellow”, which drives those who read it insane. E. F. Bleiler described THE KING IN YELLOW as one of the most important works of American supernatural fiction and it was also strongly admired by H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. A later story, “The Maker of Moons” from 1896, features a U.S. Government department dedicated to battling the titular supernatural menace and presages much of the action and Yellow Peril threats of the later pulp magazines. Chambers eventually moved into a successful – and more remunerative – career writing romance fiction.
The King in Yellow and In Search of the Unknown are available at Gutenberg for free download.
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