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K. Trap Jones is an author of horror novels and a decade’s worth of short stories appearing in various anthologies.

Specializing in splatterpunk/extreme horror, he draws inspiration from Dante Alighieri and Edgar Allan Poe along with his appreciation towards narrative folklore, classic literary works and obscure segments within society.

His novel, The Big Bad was nominated for the 2018 Splatterpunk Award. His novel, The Sinner won the 2010 Royal Palm Literary Award. Other novels include: The Drunken Exorcist, The Charm Hunter, The Harvester, The King’s Ox and One Bad Fur Day.

As a product of the ‘80s, he likes his movies bloody and his music heavy. He is the owner of The Evil Cookie Publishing and is also the Co-Founder of The Splatter Club. He can be found lurking around Tampa, FL.

Brian Keene writes novels, comic books, stories, journalism, and other words for money. He is the author of over fifty books, mostly in the horror, crime, and fantasy genres.

He has written for such Marvel and DC properties as Thor, Doom Patrol, Justice League, Harley Quinn, Devil-Slayer, Superman, and Masters of the Universe, as well as his own critically acclaimed creator-owned comic series The Last Zombie. Keene has also written for media properties such as Doctor Who, The X-Files, Hellboy, and Aliens.

His numerous awards and honors include the 2014 World Horror Grandmaster Award, 2001 Bram Stoker Award for Nonfiction, 2003 Bram Stoker Award for First Novel, the 2016 Imadjinn Award for Best Fantasy Novel, the 2015 Imaginarium Film Festival Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Short Film Genre, and Best Short Film Overall, the 2004 Shocker Award for Book of the Year, and Honors from United States Army International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and Whiteman A.F.B. (home of the B-2 Stealth Bomber) 509th Logistics Fuels Flight. A prolific public speaker, Keene has delivered talks at conventions, college campuses, theaters, and inside Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, VA.

The father of two sons, Keene lives in rural Pennsylvania with author Mary SanGiovanni.

Matt Shaw is an English author of over 200 publications. Three times nominated for The Splatter Punk Award, he is known primarily for his boundary pushing horror although he writes in other genres too - when his mood takes fancy.

He is also an award-winning filmmaker with three feature films directed, produced and written. In the last year he has slowly been making his move into the uncertain world of acting with his on-screen debut in A Nightmare On Elm Street: Up All Night (available to watch for free on YouTube).

Wrath James White is a former World Class Heavyweight Kickboxer, a professional Kickboxing and Mixed Martial Arts trainer, distance runner, performance artist, and former street brawler, who is now known for creating some of the most disturbing works of fiction in print.

Wrath is the author of such extreme horror classics as The Resurrectionist (now a major motion picture titled "Come Back To Me") Succulent Prey, and it's sequel Prey Drive, Horrible Gods, Yaccub’s Curse, 400 Days of Oppression, Sacrifice, Voracious, To the Death, The Reaper, Skinzz, Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town, The Book of a Thousand Sins, His Pain, Population Zero and many others. He is the co-author of Teratologist co-written with the king of extreme horror, Edward Lee, Something Terrible co-written with his son Sultan Z. White, Orgy of Souls co-written with Maurice Broaddus, Hero and The Killings both co-written with J.F. Gonzalez, Poisoning Eros co-written with Monica J. O'Rourke, among others.

Wrath lives and works in Austin, Texas.

Kristopher Triana is the Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Full Brutal, Gone to See the River Man, They All Died Screaming and many other terrifying books. His work has been published in multiple languages and has drawn praise from the likes of Rue Morgue Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Scream Magazine and many more.

His is the co-host of the podcast Vital Social Issues ‘N Stuff with Kris and John Wayne.

He lives somewhere in New England.

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Twitter: Koyotekris

Facebook: Kristopher Triana

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Podcast: krisandjohnwayne.com

Gregory L. Norris writes regularly for national magazines, fiction anthologies, novels, and the occasional episode for TV or Film.

His story Mustache Ride was born on a warm summer day in 2020 on his sun porch while he was reading a line of dialog he'd scribbled in an old notebook two decades earlier.

Norris lives and writes at the Outer Limits of New Hampshire's North Country. Follow his literary adventures at: www.gregorylnorris.blogspot.com

Christine Morgan divides her writing time among many genres, from horror to historical, from superheroes to smut, anything in between and combinations thereof. She’s a future crazy-cat-lady and a longtime gamer, who enjoys British television, cheesy action/disaster movies, cooking and crafts. Which latter two led a recent podcast to refer to her as “The Martha Stewart of extreme horror,” so, make of that what you will!

Her short stories have appeared in dozens of anthologies, as well as the collections The Raven's Table (Viking-themed horror, with a companion volume due out in late 2020 or early 2021) and Dawn of the Living-Impaired And Other Messed Up Zombie Stories (zombies, obviously). Her novels include the historical pioneer blizzard snow monstery White Death, the Edward Lee sequel Lakehouse Infernal, the totally trashy Spermjackers From Hell, the soon-to-be-rereleased Murder Girls, and others.

She also takes on editing and proofreading gigs, is a regular contributor to The Horror Fiction Review, has twice earned an Honorable Mention from Ellen Datlow in the Year’s Best series, and been nominated in various categories of the Splatterpunk Awards, and recently won Best Novel for Lakehouse Infernal.

Christine currently lives in Portland, Oregon, where she works the overnight shift in a residential psychiatric facility. She is always glad to hear from readers, as well as other authors and hey, agents, publishers, movie people, it's all good!

Dustin LaValley is the author of the collections A Soundless Dawn, and 12 Gauge: Songs from a Street Sweeper, which includes the novellas The Deceived, Spinner, and H/armed.

His television and film credits include an Emmy-nominated episode of Escape at Dannemora, the forthcoming miniseries A Dark Profession, and 60 Seconds to Die.

Outside of writing, he’s a Sensei of Seito Shito Ryu, Judo, Okinawan jujutsu, and a civilian instructor for various New York State law enforcement agencies.

He can be found at dustinlavalley.com

Science fiction and horror author Stephen Kozeniewski is a two-time winner of the World Horror Gross Out Contest.

His published novels include the Splatterpunk Award-nominated The Hematophages and its Indie Horror Book Award-nominated prequel Skinwrapper.

Wile E. Young is from Texas, where he grew up surrounded by stories of ghosts and monsters.

During his writing career he has managed to both have a price put on his head and publish his southern themed horror stories.

He obtained his bachelor’s degree in History, which provided no advantage or benefit during his years as an aviation specialist and I.T. guru.

Jonathan Butcher is a British horror author who writes always macabre, sometimes extreme fiction, and whose debut novella was What Good Girls Do.

He continues to build a catalogue of horror shorts, anthologies, novellas, and a novel entitled The Children at the Bottom of the Gardden.

He an occasional contributor to the UK’s biggest independent horror website, The Ginger Nuts of Horror, his short film Stuck was screened at the Bristol Horror Convention, and he’s currently working on a novel about politics, hatred, and the end of the fucking world.

Jonathan likes dark strong beer, firing guns, screaming to extreme metal, drumming, and all the horror he can swallow.   

Sam Richard is the co-editor of the Splatterpunk Awards Nominated Anthology The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg, editor of Zombie Punks Fuck Off, and the owner of Weirdpunk Books.

He is the author of Sabbath of the Fox-Devils and the Wonderland Awards Nominated Collection To Wallow in Ash & Other Sorrows. His short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Oculus Sinister, Slashertorte, Lazermall, and Dark Moon Digest.

Widowed in 2017, he slowly rots in Minneapolis with his dog, Nero. www.weirdpunkbooks.com

Vic Kerry is the author of four novels, a novella, and numerous short stories. He currently teaches junior high English, which gives frequent rise to the desire to smash his own head in with a mallet.

Beyond that, he’s pretty normal for a former psychotherapist. Vic can be found stalking rural Alabama where he lives with his wife, three dogs, and two cats.

Anton Cancre's mother wasn't really pregnant with them when she went to see The Exorcist, but they tell people that anyways because it sounds cool.

Their debut collection of poetry, Meaningless Cycles in a Vicious Glass Prison: Songs of Death and Love is available through Dragon's Roost Press.

They're also a luddite who still has a blogspot website (antoncancre.blogspot.com) and runs the Spec Griot Garage podcast (specgriotgarage.podbean.com) where they get to gush over other people's poems with cool folks.